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6901) Shadow on the mountain
Author
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
In Nazi-occupied Norway, fourteen-year-old Espen joins the resistance movement, graduating from deliverer of illegal newspapers to courier and spy. Includes historical note, code-breaking activity, and instructions for making invisible ink.
6902) The crimson shard
Author
Series
Blackhope enigma trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Templar Books, an imprint of Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2015,
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
"During what seems like an ordinary museum visit, a tour guide lures Sunni and Blaise through a painted doorway-and they discover they've stepped into eighteenth-century London. When they realize their "tour guide" will do anything to get more information about what Sunni and Blaise know about magical paintings, they attempt to flee and encounter body snatchers, art thieves and forgers"--
Author
Series
Lady Frances Ffolkes novels volume 1
Publisher
Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"An extraordinary woman living in extraordinary times, Lady Frances Ffolkes is an Edwardian-era suffragette who has an uncanny ability to attract danger and romance. When Major Colcombe, a family friend and war veteran, dies under mysterious circumstances, the good Lady Frances discovers that he was working on a manuscript about South Africa bloody Boer War, which reportedly revealed a scandalous mistake that cost many innocent lives. Now, it up to...
6904) League of dragons
Author
Series
Temeraire volume 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The final adventure in the New York Times bestselling Temeraire series. The deadly campaign in Russia has cost both Napoleon and those allied against him. Napoleon has been denied his victory...but at a terrible price. Lawrence and the dragon Temeraire pursue the fleeing French army back west, but are demoralized when Napoleon makes it back to Paris unscathed. Worse, they soon learn that the French have stolen Termeraire and Iskierka's egg. Now,...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Grace Steele and Eliza Jones may be from completely different backgrounds, but when it comes to the army, specifically the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC), they are both starting from the same level. Not only will they be among the first class of female officers the army has even seen, they are also the first Black women allowed to serve. As these courageous women help to form the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion, they are dealing with...
Author
Series
Wars of the Roses volume 4
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
England, 1470. A divided kingdom cannot stand. King Edward of York has been driven out of England. Queen Elizabeth and her children tremble in sanctuary at Westminster Abbey. The House of Lancaster has won the crown, but York will not go quietly. Desperate to reclaim his throne, Edward lands at Ravenspur with a half-drowned army and his brother Richard at his side. Every hand is against them, every city gate is shut, yet the brothers York go on the...
6908) The vixen: a novel
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
1953. Simon Putnam, newly hired by a distinguished New York publishing firm, gets his first assignment: editing The Vixen, the Patriot and the Fanatic, a lurid bodice-ripper improbably based on the recent trial and execution of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg. It is a potboiler intended to shore up the firm's failing finances. Simon's mother was a childhood friend of Ethel Rosenberg's; his parents mourn Ethel's death. Simon meets The Vixen author, reckless,...
6909) A gambling man
Author
Series
Aloysius Archer novels volume 2
Language
English
Description
The 1950s are on the horizon, and Archer is in dire need of a fresh start after a nearly fatal detour in Poca City. So Archer hops on a bus and begins the long journey out west to California, where rumor has it there is money to be made for someone who's hard-working, lucky, a criminal, or all three. Along the way, Archer stops in Reno, where a stroke of fortune delivers him a wad of cash and an eye-popping blood-red 1939 Delahaye convertible, plus...
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Crime
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Sir Ecgbert Tode of Tode Hall has survived to a grand old age - much to the despair of his younger wife, Emma. But at ninety-three he has, at last, shuffled off the mortal coil. Emma, Lady Tode, thoroughly fed up with being a dutiful Lady of the Manor, wants to leave the country to spend her remaining years in Capri. Unfortunately her three tiresome children are either unwilling or unable (too mad, too lefty or too happy in Australia) to take on management...
6911) Mouse
Author
Series
Five ancestors. Original series volume 6
Publisher
Yearling
Pub. Date
©2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
In seventeenth-century China, orphaned ShaoShu, who can squeeze into small spaces, puts his life in danger when he becomes a spy for a young band of warrior monks known as the Five Ancestors and bravely infiltrates evil Tonglong's camp.
Author
Publisher
Plaza & Janés
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
Español
Description
Augsburgo, 1916. La mansión de la familia Melzer pasa a ser, por necesidad, un hospital militar. Las hijas de la casa, ayudadas por el servicio, se convierten en enfermeras que curan, cuidan y escuchan a los heridos en combate. Entretanto, Marie, la joven esposa de Paul Melzer, se hace cargo de la fábrica de telas en ausencia de su marido. Sin embargo, recibe una terrible noticia: su cuñado ha caído en el frente y Paul es ahora un prisionero de...
Author
Publisher
Plaza Janés
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
Español
Description
"Una poderosa familia.
Una situación dramática.
Una mansión que esconde más de un secreto...
La brillante tercera parte de la saga superventas que comenzó con La villa de las telas." --
"A powerful family.
A dramatic situation.
A mansion that hides more than one secret.
The brilliant third part of the bestselling saga that started with The Cloth Villa." --
6914) Una momia al amanecer
Author
Series
Magic tree house volume 3
Publisher
Lectorum Publications
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
Español
Description
Jack and his younger sister take a trip in their treehouse back to ancient Egypt, where they help a queen's mummy continue her voyage to the Next Life.
6915) The Hollywood spy
Author
Series
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Maggie Hope is off to Hollywood to solve a crime that hits too close to home--and confront the very evil she thought she had left behind in Europe--as the acclaimed World War II mystery series from New York Times bestselling author Susan Elia MacNeal continues. Los Angeles, 1943. As the Allies beat back the Nazis in the Mediterranean and the United States military slowly closes in on Tokyo, Walt Disney cranks out wartime propaganda and the Cocoanut...
Author
Series
Magic tree house volume 3
Publisher
Piryongso
Pub. Date
2002
Language
Korean
Description
Jack and his younger sister take a trip in their tree house back to ancient Egypt, where they help a queen's mummy continue her voyage to the Next Life.
Author
Series
Magic tree house volume 4
Publisher
Piryongso
Pub. Date
2002
Language
Korean
Description
The magic treehouse whisks Jack and Annie back to the days of deserted islands, secret maps, hidden gold, and nasty pirates.
Author
Series
Publisher
Puffin
Pub. Date
2010, 1892.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
The great detective solves eight baffling cases involving a family curse, a secret code, a missing racehorse, an impossible murder, a stolen jewel, blackmail, six identical sculptures, and a missing soccer player.
6919) The last great road bum
Author
Publisher
MCD, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"In The Last Great Road Bum, Héctor Tobar turns the peripatetic true story of a naive son of Urbana, Illinois, who died fighting with guerrillas in El Salvador into the great American novel for our times. Joe Sanderson died in pursuit of a life worth writing about. He was, in his words, a 'road bum,' an adventurer and a storyteller, belonging to no place, people, or set of ideas. He was born into a childhood of middle-class contentment in Urbana,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Noguer
Pub. Date
2010, ©1964
Language
Español
Appears on list
Description
Left alone on a beautiful but isolated island off the coast of California, a young Indian girl spends eighteen years, not only merely surviving through her enormous courage and self-reliance, but also finding a measure of happiness in her solitary life.
La tribu de Karana ha sido brutalmente atacada por unos cazadores de nutrias. La muerte de muchos de ellos obliga al jefe del clan a tomar la decisión de abandonar la isla. Karana tambien quiere...
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