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1) The valiant
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
The daughter of a proud Celtic king is captured and sold to a training school for women gladiators under the patronage of Julius Caesar, circumstances that put her survival in the hands of an enemy who was responsible for her sister's death.
2) Front lines
Author
Publisher
Katherine Tegan Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 18
Physical Desc
xv, 548 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
After a court decision that makes women eligible for service in the fight against the Nazis, three young women volunteer to serve their country, unaware that their decisions will take them to the front lines of the conflict.
3) Little women
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 33
Language
English
Description
An unabridged edition of nineteenth-century American author Louisa May Alcott's novel about four New England sisters who come of age during the Civil War, which also includes discussion questions and activity ideas for reading groups.
Author
Series
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 19
Physical Desc
xxi, 548 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
During the summer of 1943, women soldiers Frangi, Rainy, and Rio accompany the American Army to Sicily to fight on the front lines.
Author
Pub. Date
2022
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
Hazel Sinnett is a medical student in 19th century Scotland who, after being kicked out because of her gender, works with new attractive acquaintance Jack Currer to procure dead bodies to study, but they soon discover secrets buried in the heart of Edinburgh society.
6) Emma
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Occasionally thoughtless, always headstrong, and constantly meddling in the affairs of her friends, Emma is a character for the ages. Hers is a story that has seamlessly translated to contemporary life. Sparkling with rare literary energy, Emma is a comedy of manners, depicting the self-contained world of 19th-century English life.
Author
Series
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 17
Physical Desc
xviii, 558 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
After their front-line battles in North Africa and Sicily, women soldiers Frangi, Rainy, and Rio join thousands of Allies in their deadliest battle yet as they descend into the freezing water and onto the sands of Omaha Beach on June 6, 1944, D-Day.
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 9
Physical Desc
312 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Tasked with getting her school's marching band to the Rose Parade, Sophie tries to persuade her small town's only claim to fame, country singer Megan Pleasant, to return to town and help her raise the funds.
Author
Series
To all the boys I've loved before volume 2
Publisher
Simon & Schuster BFYR
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
"Lara Jean didn't expect to really fall for Peter. She and Peter were just pretending. Except suddenly they weren't. Now Lara Jean is more confused than ever. When another boy from her past returns to her life, Lara Jean's feelings for him return too. Can a girl be in love with two boys at once?"--
Author
Publisher
Dutton Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
Physical Desc
221, 7 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Best friends Neena and Josie spent high school as outsiders, but at least they had each other. Now, with college and a two-thousand-mile separation looming on the horizon, they have one last chance to be together--a three-day hike deep into the woods of the Pisgah National Forest. Simmering tensions lead to a detour off the trail and straight into a waking nightmare ... then into something far worse. Something that will test them in horrifying ways."--...
11) Yolk
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster BFYR
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
390 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Struggling with emotional problems and an eating disorder, Jayne, a Korean American college student living in New York City, is estranged from her accomplished older sister June, until June gets cancer.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf, an imprint of Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 12
Physical Desc
344 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
When her sister, considered the perfect Mexican daughter by her parents, dies, Julia tries to reassemble her shattered family despite her own grief and her mother's penchant for pointing out every possible way Julia has failed.
13) The Elite
Author
Series
Selection novel volume 2
Publisher
HarperTeen
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
The Selection began with thirty-five girls. Now with the group narrowed down to the six Elite, the competition to win Prince Maxon's heart is fiercer than ever -- and America is still struggling to decide where her heart truly lies. Is it with Maxon, who could make her life a fairy tale? Or with her first love, Aspen? America is desperate for more time. But the rest of the Elite know exactly what they want -- and America's chance to choose is about...
14) The Selection
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
For thirty-five girls, the Selection is the chance of a lifetime. The opportunity to escape the life laid out for them since birth. To be swept up in a world of glittering gowns and priceless jewels. To live in a palace and compete for the heart of gorgeous Prince Maxon. But for America Singer, being Selected is a nightmare. It means turning her back on her secret love with Aspen, who is a caste below her. Leaving her home to enter a fierce competition...
15) On the come up
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Bri hopes to become a great rapper, and after her first song goes viral for all the wrong reasons, must decide whether to sell out or face eviction with her widowed mother.
16) The gilded ones
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Deka lives in fear and anticipation of the blood ceremony that will determine whether she will become a member of her village. Already different from everyone else because of her unnatural intuition, Deka prays for red blood so she can finally feel like she belongs.
But on the day of the ceremony, her blood runs gold, the color of impurity–and Deka knows she will face a consequence worse than death.
Then a mysterious woman comes...
Author
Series
Daughter of the Pirate King volume 2.``
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
Alosa is the daughter of the Siren Queen, and her mission is finally complete. Not only has she recovered all three pieces of the map to a legendary hidden treasure, but the pirates who originally took her captive are now prisoners on her ship. Still unfairly attractive and unexpectedly loyal, first mate Riden is a constant distraction, but now he's under her orders. Now Alosa and her crew are in a deadly race with Vordan, the pirate king, to find...
Author
Series
The summer I turned pretty volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
Teenaged Isobel "Belly" Conklin, whose life revolves around spending the summer at her mother's best friend's beach house, reflects on the tragic events of the past year that changed her life forever.
Author
Series
York volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
Abandoned in a Chicago orphanage with her sister, Frankie endures injustice, poverty, and violence while struggling to survive in the years leading up to World War II.
20) Code name Verity
Author
Series
Code Name Verity volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
In 1943, a British fighter plane crashes in Nazi-occupied France and the survivor tells a tale of friendship, war, espionage, and great courage as she relates what she must to survive while keeping secret all that she can.