Justine Eyre
Author
Language
English
Description
"In this new novel from the author of Water for Elephants, Sara Gruen again demonstrates her talent for creating spellbinding period pieces. At the Water's Edge is a gripping and poignant love story about a privileged young woman's personal awakening as she experiences the devastations of World War II in a Scottish Highlands village".
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Targeted by a disabled former spy for the Crown who wrongly believes she is blackmailing his sister, Beatrice Lockwood offers her assistance in tracking down the real culprit and eventually falls for the spy only to find herself hunted by a mad scientist who would resurrect a dead lover.
3) Sold
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
820L
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Thirteen-year-old Lakshmi leaves her poor mountain home in Nepal thinking that she is to work in the city as a maid only to find that she has been sold into the sex slave trade in India and that there is no hope of escape.
Author
Language
English
Description
Moving to a country cottage where she seeks refuge in a paranormally charged garden, Evangeline Ames is rescued from a would-be assassin by the garden's owner, Lucas Sebastian, who taps Evangeline's detective skills to solve a buried-treasure mystery and stop a common enemy.
5) Night diver
Author
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Former British military diver Holden Cameron must investigate the suspicious activity surrounding a Donnelly dive to recover treasure from the ancient wreck of a pirate ship located near St. Vincent. When equipment, treasure, and even divers begin to disappear, owner Kate Donnelly and Holden form an uneasy alliance to uncover the truth. But the deeper they plummet into the mystery, the closer they come to each other. Soon they are sharing their deepest...
Author
Series
Queen of babble volume 3
Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Lovable blabbermouth Lizzie juggles a whirlwind of bridal preparations in the course of her engagement to Jean-Luc, which is frowned upon by her best friends.
Author
Series
Lexile measure
780L
Language
English
Description
Discovering her identity as the last of an ancient bloodline charged with preventing humanity from losing touch with nature, young wolf Kaala traces the shared evolution between canines and people and learns how wolves and dogs rendered humans the planet's dominant species.
8) The cellar
Author
Language
English
Description
"From the internationally bestselling, award-winning crime writer Minette Walters, The Cellar is a harrowing, compulsively readable novel about a family of African immigrants, the Songolis, and the dark secret they keep hidden in the depths of their seemingly respectable British home. On the day Mr. and Mrs. Songoli's young son fails to come home from school, fourteen-year-old Muna's fortunes change for the better. Until then, her bedroom was a dank...
9) Wild girl
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
When twelve-year-old Lidie leaves Brazil to join her father and brother on a horse ranch in New York, she has a hard time adjusting to her changed circumstances, as does a new horse that has come to the ranch.
10) From this moment
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Stella West's artistic talent made her the toast of London, but when her beloved sister dies under mysterious circumstances, she abandons everything, heads for Boston, and tries to pierce the ring of secrecy surrounding her sister's death. When she meets Romulus White, a publisher with innumerable connections, she decides he could be a valuable ally. He decides to help her as a means to induce her to create art for his magazine. Neither one is prepared...
Author
Series
Pink carnation volume 5
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
After twelve years in India, Robert, Duke of Dovedale, returns to his estate in England to avenge the murder of his mentor during the 1803 Battle of Assaye. Robert plans to infiltrate the infamous, secretive Hellfire Club to uncover the murderer's identity - but he has no idea tha an even more difficult challenge awaits him, in the person of Lady Charlotte Lansdowne.
12) Hostage
Author
Language
English
Description
"HOSTAGE: Shortly after a crowded New York-bound Boeing 747 takes off from Stockholm, a bomb threat is found in one of the aircraft's lavatories. The demands are directed at both the Swedish and US governments. Police Superintendent Alex Recht teams up with the energetic -- and often abrasive -- Eden Lundell from the security service's counter-terrorism unit to deal with the hijacking. Fredrika Bergman, who is currently working at the Justice Department,...
Author
Series
Maximum Ride volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
720L
Language
English
Formats
Description
While on a mission to Antarctica to save the world from global warming, fourteen-year-old Maximum Ride and the other members of the Flock -- a band of genetically modified children who can fly -- are pursued by their creator, the Uber-Director, who wants to auction them off to the highest bidder.
14) Seraphina
Author
Series
Seraphina volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 18
Lexile measure
760L
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
In a world where dragons and humans coexist in an uneasy truce and dragons can assume human form, Seraphina, whose mother died giving birth to her, grapples with her own identity amid magical secrets and royal scandals, while she struggles to accept and develop her extraordinary musical talents.
15) In dreams
Author
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Drawn to a castle in the forests of Ireland, a beautiful young woman becomes the link to a stranger's past, and the curse that has trapped him forever in the eternity of his own dreams.
16) Fallen
Author
Series
Fallen novel volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 16
Lexile measure
830L
Language
English
Description
There's something achingly familiar about Daniel Grigori. Mysterious and aloof, he captures Luce Price's attention from the moment she sees him on her first day at the Sword & Cross boarding school in sultry Savannah, Georgia. He's the one bright spot in a place where cell phones are forbidden, the other students are all screw-ups, and security cameras watch every move. Even though Daniel wants nothing to do with Luce -- and goes out of his way to...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
930L
Language
English
Description
Anne's true love, Gilbert Blythe, is finally a doctor, and they are about to be married in the orchard of Green Gables. Soon the happy couple will be bound for a new life together and their own dream house, on the misty purple shores of Four Winds Harbor. A new life means fresh problems to solve, fresh surprises.
18) Ask for it
Author
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Nothing incites Marcus more than a primal hunger roused by his former fiancee, Elizabeth. It's been years since she jilted him for another man, but that only means there's a lot to catch up on, a lot to make up for, and he's going to enjoy every sweet moment. The same drive and passion that sent her into another man's arms is what brings Elizabeth back to Marcus. Her attraction to him is the one thing she fears, but she's run out of options. Does...
19) The push
Author
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
[2020].
Language
English
Description
"One party. Thirteen people. By 3:02 p.m., one of them will be dead. The party should have been perfect: six couples from the same baby group, six newborns, a luxurious house. But not everything has gone to plan, and while some are here to celebrate, others have sorrows to drown. When someone falls from the balcony of the house, the secrets and conflicts within the group begin to spill out... DS Alison Hegarty, herself struggling with infertility,...
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
This is the chilling account of how a low-level, small-minded KGB operative ascended to the Russian presidency and, in an astonishingly short time, destroyed years of progress and made his country once more a threat to her own people and to the world. Handpicked by the "family" surrounding an ailing and increasingly unpopular Boris Yeltsin, Vladimir Putin seemed like a perfect choice for the oligarchy to shape according to its own designs. Suddenly...