Jennifer Donnelly
1) Revolution
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 17
Lexile measure
HL 560L
Language
English
Description
An angry, grieving seventeen-year-old musician facing expulsion from her prestigious Brooklyn private school travels to Paris to complete a school assignment and uncovers a diary written during the French revolution by a young actress attempting to help a tortured, imprisoned little boy--Louis Charles, the lost king of France.
2) Deep blue
Author
Series
Waterfire saga volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
HL 580L
Language
English
Description
Deep in the ocean, in a world not so different from our own, live the merpeople. Their communities are spread throughout the oceans, seas, and freshwaters all over the globe. When Serafina, a mermaid of the Mediterranean Sea, awakens on the morning of her betrothal, her biggest worry should be winning the love of handsome Prince Mahdi. And yet Sera finds herself haunted by strange dreams that foretell the return of an ancient evil. Her dark premonitions...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 19
Lexile measure
HL 630L
Language
English
Description
A young woman in nineteenth-century New York City must struggle against gender and class boundaries when her father is found dead of a supposed suicide, and she believes there is more than meets the eye, so in order to uncover the truth she will have to decide how much she is willing to risk and lose.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
700L
Language
English
Description
In 1906, sixteen-year-old Mattie, determined to attend college and be a writer against the wishes of her father and fiance, takes a job at a summer inn where she discovers the truth about the death of a guest. Based on a true story.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Smart, bookish Belle, a captive in the Beast's castle, has become accustomed to her new home and has befriended its inhabitants. When she comes upon Nevermore, an enchanted book unlike anything else she has seen in the castle, Belle finds herself pulled into its pages and transported to a world of glamour and intrigue. The adventures Belle has always imagined, the dreams she was forced to give up when she became a prisoner, seem within reach again.
...6) The tea rose
Author
Language
English
Description
Her family and dreams shattered by her father's untimely death at the hands of a ruthless tea baron, Fiona Finnegan flees East London and eventually establishes herself at the head of the tea trade in New York.
7) Dark tide
Author
Series
Waterfire saga volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
HL 650L
Language
English
Description
"Astrid struggles with a shameful secret, Ling discovers courage in a prison camp, and Serafina lines up allies to help fight the final battle for her underwater realm"--
8) Poisoned
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
600L
Language
English
Description
In this adaptation of the fairy tale Snow White, the huntsman follows the queen's order to kill Sophie, but the princess is brought back to life by the seven men of the woods, who, along with other brave friends, help Sophie overcome the story's true villain and reclaim her throne.
9) Rogue wave
Author
Series
Waterfire saga volume 2
Publisher
Disney Pr
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
HL 620L
Language
English
Description
As Serafina uncovers more clues about the talismans, Neela ventures into a sea dragon's nest, and Ling learns the identity of their foe.
10) Sea spell
Author
Series
Waterfire saga volume 4
Publisher
Disney-Hyperion
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
630L
Language
English
Description
"Astrid must confront her ancestor, Orfeo, the evil force behind the rise of the monster Abbadon, while Sera and her Black Fins train goblin troops for battle against her uncle Vallerio's death riders"--
11) Stepsister
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 15
Lexile measure
HL 640L
Language
English
Description
"Isabelle is one of Cinderella's ugly stepsisters, who cut off their toes in an attempt to fit into the glass slipper; but there is more to her story than a maimed foot, for the Marquis de la Chance is about to offer her a choice and the opportunity to change her fate--there will be blood and danger, but also the possibility of redemption and triumph, and most of all the chance to find her true self."--
12) Lost in a book
Author
Publisher
Disney Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
610L
Language
English
Description
Smart, bookish Belle, a captive in the Beast's castle, has become accustomed to her new home and has befriended its inhabitants. When she comes upon Nevermore, an enchanted book unlike anything else she has seen in the castle, Belle finds herself pulled into its pages and transported to a world of glamour and intrigue. The adventures Belle has always imagined, the dreams she was forced to give up when she became a prisoner, seem within reach again....
13) Beastly beauty
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
When handsome thief Beau enters the castle that appeared out of nowhere he finds himself trapped in Arabella's curse, which can only be broken if she finds a boy who loves her for her true self--a seeming impossibility for a girl who has been told she isimpossible to love.
Author
Publisher
Schwartz & Wade Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 16
Lexile measure
HL 750L
Language
English
Description
Seven award-winning young adult authors illuminate the lives of Britain's King Henry VIII and his six wives from different viewpoints.
King Henry VIII was a charismatic and extravagant ruler obsessed with both his power as king and with siring a male heir. Six women became his queens, several fated for divorce, or beheading. In this book, seven authors tell of their attempts to survive their unpredictable king and his power-hungry court. As they...
15) A bag of hammers
Publisher
MPI Home Video
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
A comedy about two misfit best friends incapable of growing up, whose direction is tested by an abandoned child, worn beyond his years; together they invent the family they've always needed.