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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 11
Description
Since her mother died when she was born Sara and her father became very close. Sara has to go away to an all girl boarding school in Britian, because her father has to fight in the war. One day a messenger comes and tells her that her father is dead. Since Sara will lose all the money her father has she is forced to be a maid with the other maid who is black named Becky just so she can have a place to live. She finds out that her father is not dead,...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 4
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In the nineteenth century, ten-year-old Florence Crutchfield leaves a London orphanage to live with her great-uncle, great-aunt, and sickly cousin James, but she soon realizes the home has another resident, who means to do her and James harm.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 14
Description
Groomed to be the perfect highborn Victorian young lady, Audrey Rose Wadsworth has a different plan in mind. After the devastating loss of her mother, she is determined to understand the nature of death itself. She begins secretly apprenticing in forensics and soon gets drawn into the disturbing investigation of serial killer Jack the Ripper. But to her horror, the search for clues brings her far closer to her sheltered world than she ever thought...
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Finishing school volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 12
Description
In her alternate England of 1851, fifteen-year-old Sophronia tries to uncover who is behind a plot to control a prototype that has the potential to alter human and supernatural travel, and to learn what role Mademoiselle Geraldine's academy for young spies plays in the affair.
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Series
Infernal devices volume 2
Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 22
Description
As the Council attempts to strip Charlotte of her power, sixteen-year-old orphaned shapechanger Tessa Gray works with the London Shadowhunters to find the Magister and destroy his clockwork army, learning the secret of her own identity while investigating his past.
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Series
Finishing school volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 11
Description
In an alternate England of 1851, spirited fourteen-year-old Sophronia is enrolled in a finishing school where, she is surprised to learn, lessons include not only the fine arts of dance, dress, and etiquette, but also diversion, deceit, and espionage.
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Series
W.A.R.P volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 15
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FBI agent Chevie Savano escapes into the past to elude the secret police after they kill Charles Smart just as he's telling her of the W.A.R.P. program, and she and Riley team up to find Colonel Clayton Box before he can launch missles at the capitals of Europe.
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Series
Finishing school volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 12
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In her alternate England of 1851, while taking her friend Sidheag by train to her werewolf pack in Scotland, sixteen-year-old Sophronia uncovers a plot that threatens to dissolve all of London into chaos and must decide where her loyalties lie once and for all.
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Series
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 11
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Description
Mary Quinn has a lot on her mind. James Easton, her longtime love interest, wants to marry her; but despite her feelings, independent-minded Mary hesitates. Meanwhile, the Agency has asked Mary to take on a dangerous case: convicted fraudster Henry Thorold is dying in prison, and Mary must watch for the return of his estranged wife, an accomplished criminal herself who has a potentially deadly grudge against James. Finally, a Chinese prizefighter...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 15
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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.
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The Agency volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 11
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As a nearly full-fledged member of the Agency, the all-female detective unit based in Miss Scrimshaw's Academy for Girls, Mary Quinn, disguised as a poor apprentice builder, must brave the sinister underworld of Victorian London in order to unmask a murderer.
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Series
Remixed classics volume 6
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 9
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Description
"In this reimagination of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, a teen boy tries to discover the reason behind his best friend's disappearance and the arrival of a mysterious and magnetic stranger"--
13) The forever man
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Series
W.A.R.P volume 3
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 13
Description
"Riley, an orphan boy living in Victorian London, who has achieved his dream of becoming a renowned magician, and Chevie, the seventeen-year-old FBI agent who traveled from the future and helped him defeat his murderous master, Albert Garrick, face the return of Garrick, an assassin-for-hire, and must destroy him once and for all"--
14) The Last Bogler
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Series
City of orphans volume 3
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 10
Description
With the plague of bogles in Victorian London barely contained, bogle hunter Alfred Bunce needs all the help he can get. So Ned Roach becomes a boglers apprentice, luring child-eating monsters from their lairs just like his friends Jem and Birdie. Its dangerous work that takes Ned into mysterious and hidden parts of the city. Yet times in London are changing; as the machine age emerges, the very existence of bogles is questioned, and the future of...
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Infernal devices volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 25
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When seventeen-year-old orphaned shapechanger Tessa Gray is kidnapped by the villainous Mortmain in his final bid for power, the London Institute rallies to save her, but is beset by danger and betrayal at every turn.
18) The dark deeps
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Series
Hunchback assignments volume 2
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 10
Description
Fourteen-year-old Modo, a shape-changing hunchback, and Octavia take on another mission as secret agents for the Permanent Association in Victorian London, investigating the cause behind the sinking of several ships in the same place.
19) Dodger
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 18
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Description
"In an alternative version of Victorian London, a seventeen-year-old Dodger, a cunning and cheeky street urchin, unexpectedly rises in life when he saves a mysterious girl, meets Charles Dickens, and unintentionally puts a stop to the murders of Sweeny Todd"--
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Series
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 9
Description
Thirteen-year-old Penelope, the secret author of macabre tales in "The Penny Dreadful," Victorian London's bestselling magazine, investigates the mystery of a strange phenomenon occurring in the local insane asylum.