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Author
Series
Infernal devices volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Formats
Description
When sixteen-year-old orphan Tessa Gray's older brother suddenly vanishes, her search for him leads her into Victorian-era London's dangerous supernatural underworld, and when she discovers that she herself is a Downworlder, she must learn to trust the demon-killing Shadowhunters if she ever wants to learn to control her powers and find her brother.
Author
Series
Last hours (Shadowhunters) volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 32
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Cordelia Carstairs seems to have everything she ever wanted. She’s engaged to marry James Herondale, the boy she has loved since childhood. She has a new life in London with her best friend Lucie Herondale and James’s charming companions, the Merry Thieves. She is about to be reunited with her beloved father. And she bears the sword Cortana, a legendary hero’s blade. But the truth is far grimmer. James and Cordelia’s marriage is a lie, arranged...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 39
Language
English
Formats
Description
In a few short weeks Cordelia Carstains has seen her father murdered, her plans to become parabatai with her best friend, Lucie, destroyed, and her marriage to James Herondale crumble before her eyes. Even worse, she is now bound to an ancient demon, Lilith, stripping her of her power as a Shadowhunter. She flees to Paris with Matthew Fairchild, but receives shocking news comes from home: Tatiana Blackthorn has escaped the Adamant Citadel, and London...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
When Clara vanishes after the puppeteer Grisini and two orphaned assistants were at her twelfth birthday party, suspicion of kidnapping chases the trio away from London and soon the two orphans are caught in a trap set by Grisini's ancient rival, a witch with a deadly inheritance to shed before it is too late.
5) Lilliput
Author
Publisher
Peachtree
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Three-inch-tall Lily has been trapped in a bird cage for half of her life while her giant captor, Gulliver, writes a book about his travels but she finally escapes and, aided by a clockmaker's apprentice and his friends, makes plans to leave London and return home to Lilliput. Inspired by Jonathan Swift's novel, Gulliver's Travels.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 28
Language
English
Formats
Description
Cordelia Carstairs, a Shadowhunter trained to battle demons, travels with her brother to London where they reconnect with childhood friends but soon must face devastating demon attacks in the quarantined city.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
At age twelve, grave robber Thomas Marsden discovers a boy who looks just like him in an unmarked grave and begins a journey of discovery as he learns of faeries trapped in London and their hope that he can return them to their realm.
Author
Series
Ruby red trilogy volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sixteen-year-old Gwen, the newest and final member of the secret time-traveling Circle of Twelve, searches through history for the other time-travelers, aided by friend Lesley, James the ghost, Xemerius the gargoyle demon, and Gideon, the Diamond, whose fate seems bound with hers.
Author
Series
City of orphans volume 2
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Jem Barbary becomes a bogler's apprentice in 1870's London and gets the fright of his life in a city where science clashes with superstition and monsters lurk in every alley.
10) Blitz: a novel
Author
Series
Checquy files volume 3
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"September, 1940. Three women of the Checquy, the secret organization tasked with protecting Britain from supernatural threats, stand in the sky above London and see German aircraft approach. Forbidden by law to interfere, all they can do is watch as their city is bombed. Until Pamela, the most sensible of them, breaks all the rules and brings down a Nazi bomber with her bare hands. The three resolve to tell no one about it, but they soon learn that...
Author
Publisher
Amulet Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
For nearly a century, Victorian London relied on "climbing boys" - orphans owned by chimney sweeps - to clean flues and protect homes from fire. The work was hard, thankless, and dangerous. Eleven-year-old Nan Sparrow is quite possibly the best climber who ever lived, and a girl. With her wits and will, she's managed to beat the deadly odds time and time again. But when Nan gets stuck in a deadly chimney fire, she fears her time has come. Instead,...
12) Ruby red
Author
Series
Publisher
Henry Holt
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Gwyneth discovers that she, rather than her well-prepared cousin, carries a time-travel gene, and soon she is journeying with Gideon, who shares the gift, through historical London trying to discover whom they can trust.
13) All night awake
Author
Series
Shakespearean fantasy novels volume 2
Publisher
Ace Books
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
William Shakespeare and his rival, Christopher Marlowe, find themselves in dire peril when their beloved Lady Silver leaves the world of the faerie to come to London to track down a dangerous creature possessing supernatural powers.
Author
Series
Ruby red trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
Since learning she is the Ruby, the final member of the time-traveling Circle of Twelve, nothing has gone right for Gwen and she holds suspicions about both Count Saint-German and Gideon, but as she uncovers the Circle's secrets she finally learns her own destiny.
15) The time thief
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2007.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Description
When an attempt to bring Peter and Kate back to their own time is bungled, Peter finds himself stranded in 1763 while The Tar Man, a villainous eighteenth-century criminal, returns with Kate to twenty-first-century London.
17) Rise of allies
Author
Series
Gryphon chronicles volume 4
Publisher
CreateSpace]
Pub. Date
c2014
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Description
"Every spring, the aristocratic magical families of Victorian England gather secretly at Merlin Hall to hobnob and to hold the annual Fey Parliament. While the adults of Magic-kind- from wizards to wood elves, fauns to fairies, giants to djinnis, and their human counterparts- debate matters of importance, the gifted youths must undergo the dreaded Assessments, testing their supernatural abilities. For rascally Jake Everton, the boy Earl of Griffon,...
18) Skycircus
Author
Series
Publisher
Jolly Fish Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
When a traveling skycircus arrives in town, Lily and Robert can't wait to step aboard. But something sinister lurks there. And before Lily and Robert can do anything, they're captured and whisked off in the mysterious flying circus to somewhere far, far away...
Author
Series
Crown and Key trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Del Rey
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
When monster-hunter Malcolm MacFarlane comes across the gruesome aftermath of a ritual murder in a London church, he enlists the help of magician-scribe Simon Archer and alchemist extraordinaire Kate Anstruther. Studying the macabre scene, they struggle to understand obscure clues in the ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics carved into the victims heart-as well as bizarre mystical allusions to the romantic poetry of William Blake. One thing is clear: Some...
20) A study in ashes
Author
Series
Baskerville affair volume 3
Publisher
Del Rey
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"As part of her devil's bargain with the industrial steam barons, Evelina Cooper is finally enrolled in the Ladies' College of London. However, she's attending as the Gold King's pet magician, handcuffed and forbidden contact with even her closest relation, the detective Sherlock Holmes. But Evelina's problems are only part of a larger war. The Baskerville affair is finally coming to light, and the rebels are making their move to wrest power from...