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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
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Description
When Mary Lennox is sent from India to the moors of England to live with her uncle after losing her parents, not only does she discover a secret garden, but she also discovers the true meaning of family, friendship, and perseverance. This magical, timeless classic, originally published in 1911, is by the author of A Little Princess and Little Lord Faunteleroy.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
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Description
At Baskerville Hall on the grim moors of Devonshire, a legendary curse has apparently claimed one more victim. Sir Charles Baskerville has been found dead. There are no signs of violence, but his face is hideously distorted with terror. Has the spectral destroyer struck again? More important, is Sir Henry Baskerville, younger heir to the estate, now in danger? Enter Sherlock Holmes, summoned to protect Sir Henry. As Holmes and Watson begin to investigate,...
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
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: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
When their father is taken away suddenly, Bobbie, Peter and Phyllis are forced to leave London for a simple life in the country. They make new friends and discover the thrill of the railway, eventually unravelling the mystery of his disappearance.
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
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Theodosia Throckmorton is shocked when she encounters Mr. Tetley at a museum benefit, knowing his appearance can only mean the Serpents of Chaos are back, leaving Theodosia to face secret societies, evil curses, and dark magic.
9) No angel
Author
Series
Publisher
Overlook Press
Pub. Date
2005, c2000
Language
English
Description
An overwhelming love for Oliver Lytton leads Lady Celia Beckenham to leave the confines of her upper-crust social strata and marry, according to her family, below her station. Nonetheless, the children that her marriage produces and the rare access she has to the publishing world through her husband, bring Celia enormous satisfaction. However, when Oliver returns from WWI, Celia finds that her marriage has changed drastically, and she must look for...
10) Mrs. England
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Language
English
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Description
"Simmering with slow-burning menace, Mrs. England is a portrait of an Edwardian marriage, an enthralling tale of men and women, power and control, courage, truth and the very darkest deception. West Yorkshire, 1904. When recently graduated Ruby May takes a nanny position looking after the children of Charles and Lilian England, a wealthy couple from a powerful dynasty of mill owners, she hopes it will be the fresh start she needs. But as she adapts...
Author
Series
Edwardian brides volume 2
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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Description
"Eighteen-year-old Katherine Ramsey travels to London with her family to make her debut into society and hopefully find her future husband"--
Author
Series
Last binding volume 1
Publisher
Tordotcom
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Robin Blyth has more than enough bother in his life. He’s struggling to be a good older brother, a responsible employer, and the harried baronet of a seat gutted by his late parents’ excesses. When an administrative mistake sees him named the civil service liaison to a hidden magical society, he discovers what’s been operating beneath the unextraordinary reality he’s always known. Now Robin must contend with the beauty and danger of magic,...
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Series
Publisher
Sandpiper
Pub. Date
[2011], c2010
Language
English
Description
Theodosia's ability to detect black magic raises her suspicions about a magician known as the Great Awi Bubu, while Henry discovers an artifact at the Museum of Legends and Antiquities that is coveted by every occultist in London.
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Stella Kendrick is an all-American heiress who can't be tamed. But when the lively aspiring equine trainer tangles with British aristocracy, she meets her match--and a murderer ... Like the Thoroughbreds she rides across the Kentucky countryside, Stella takes adventure by the reins when she's asked to attend a mysterious wedding in rural England. But once she arrives at the lush Morrington Hall estate, her cold, ambitious father reveals that he has...
Author
Publisher
Kensington
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Joining Edwardian London's famous Imperial Theatre against the wishes of her traditionally minded father, a talented actress is forced by betrayal to flee to St. Petersburg, where she lands in exile with her revolutionary-minded lover.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
When four brothers and sisters discover a Psammead, or sand-fairy, in the gravel pit near the country house where they are staying, they have no way of knowing all the adventures its wish-granting will bring them.
19) Darkwater
Author
Publisher
Dial Books
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Sarah sells her soul to reclaim her family's estate and is given 100 years to atone for their sins, but as the bargain nears its end, modern-day Tom, yearning to attend the private school that Darkwater Hall has become, gets caught up in the bargain.
Author
Series
Ramses the damned volume 2
Publisher
Anchor Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"A pharaoh made immortal by a mysterious and powerful elixir, Ramses the Great became counselor and lover to some of Egypt’s greatest and most powerful rulers before he was awakened from centuries of slumber to the mystifying and dazzling world of Edwardian England. Having vanquished foes both human and supernatural, he’s found love with the beautiful heiress Julie Stratford, daughter of Lawrence Stratford, the slain archeologist who discovered...