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Author
Series
Aunt Dimity mysteries volume 10
Language
English
Description
Volunteering at the Radcliffe Infirmary, Lori Shepherd befriends a lonely retired secretary who soon passes away, and when Lori discovers that the woman possessed a considerable estate, she attempts to locate the woman's next-of-kin.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
When his father is arrested as a debtor in 1849 London, fourteen-year-old John Huffman must take on unexpected responsibilities, from asking a distant relative for help to determining why people are spying on him and his family.
Author
Publisher
Speak/Penguin Group
Pub. Date
2007.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
After the Russian Revolution turns her world upside down, Anna, a young Russian countess, has no choice but to flee to England. Penniless, Anna hides her aristocratic background and takes a job as a servant in the household of the esteemed Westerholme family. Anna is overwhelmed by her new duties, and her instant attraction to Rupert, the handsome Earl of Westerholme. To make matters worse, Rupert appears to be falling for her, too. Anna finds it...
Author
Series
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
A fourteen-year-old British street person with extraordinary powers of observation and self-control must face murderous thugs connected with a past he has tried to forget, when his skills with a knife earned him the nickname, Blade.
Author
Series
Elemental masters volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Description
Living most of her 25 years in her native India, Maya Witherspoon is the daughter of a prominent British physician and a Brahmin woman of the highest caste--and a doctor herself. Maya's mother was a former priestess of the magic fueled by the powerful pantheon of Indian gods. When her parents are murdered, Maya flees to Edwardian London where she must master her own magic.
Author
Series
Young Bond series volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Teenage James Bond is on the case when a professor is kidnapped in a north London cemetery, and an encoded letter arrives which, once deciphered, leaves James with just forty-eight hours to rescue the captured scholar and save the world.
67) Just in case
Author
Publisher
Wendy Lamb Books
Pub. Date
[2006]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old David Case realizes that Fate has put a target on his back after he saves his baby brother from the edge of a balcony. He assumes a new identity and becomes Justin Case, who ponders teenage philosophic questions and falls in love with an older girl, Agnes Day.
68) Darkside
Author
Publisher
Orchard Books
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Jonathan Starling's father is in an asylum and his home has been attacked when, while running away from kidnappers, he stumbles upon Darkside, a terrifying and hidden part of London ruled by the descendants of Jack the Ripper, where Jonathan is in mortal danger if he cannot find the way out.
Author
Series
Aunt Dimity mysteries volume 8
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Delightfully quirky Aunt Dimity series in fine style as a poison pen infiltrates a house party at the country estate of a British earl. When her best friend learns that her husband is heir to both an earldom and a fortune, Lori Shepard agrees to accompany a decidedly nervous Emma Harris to Hailesham Park to meet her in-laws. Of course, Lori enlists the help of her "Aunt Dimity," a blithe spirit who reveals her thoughts and opinions to Lori via the...
Author
Series
Aunt Dimity mysteries volume 9
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
"When Lori Shepherd decides to treat herself to a relaxing day hiking through the serene English countryside, she has no idea that the blizzard of the century is about to hit. The storm comes quickly and furiously, but fortunately Lori is able to find refuge in nearby Ladythorne Abbey, the fabulous home of the late Lucasta DeClerke. Soon she's safe and dry, along with two other stranded backpackers. But has she escaped one danger only to fall right...
71) Corbenic
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
2006.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
In this modern day version of Perceval and the Holy Grail, a guilt-ridden British teenager leaves his mentally ill mother to live with his wealthy uncle and begins a journey of self-knowledge and redemption after being briefly transported to the Waste Land of Arthurian times.
Author
Series
Withern Rise trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
2004.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Alaric discovers how to travel to an alternate reality, where his mother is alive and his place in the family is held by a girl named Naia.
74) Kissing the rain
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Moo Nelson, shy, overweight, and bullied by his classmates, finds his life spinning out of control after he witnesses a car chase and a fight that results in a murder.
75) On the bright side, I'm now the girlfriend of a Sex God: further confessions of Georgia Nicolson
Author
Series
Confessions of Georgia Nicolson volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Georgia continues her diary in which she records her misadventures trying to reclaim the attention of seventeen-year-old Robbie, while coping with her friends, family, and dog-like cat Angus at the same time.Sequel to: Angus, thongs and full-frontal snoggingSequel: Knocked out by my nunga-nungas
76) Gangsta Rap
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
When teenage Ray and his two friends, Prem and Tyronne, form a successful rap band in the London's East End where they live, they soon find themselves embroiled in increasingly violent gang warfare.
Author
Series
Cecelia and Kate novels volume 1
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
In 1817 in England, two young cousins, Cecilia living in the country and Kate in London, write letters to keep each other informed of their exploits, which take a sinister turn when they find themselves confronted by evil wizards.
80) The Blooding
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
While spending the summer working as an au pair girl for a couple in England, Maris discovers that the husband is a werewolf intent on blooding her and making her one too.