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Last dragon chronicles volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 7
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When college student David Rain rents a room in an unusual boardinghouse full of clay dragons, he has no idea that they, along with some lively squirrels, will help jumpstart his writing career.
3) Fire star
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Last dragon chronicles volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 12
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While on a research trip to the Arctic, Chris begins writing a story about bears, dragons and a mysterious fire star, only to realize that his tale is coming alive and is populated by an old adversary out to destroy his world forever.
5) Rainwater
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The year is 1934. With the country in the stranglehold of drought and economic depression, Ella Barron runs her Texas boardinghouse with an efficiency that ensures her life will be kept in balance. Between chores of cooking and cleaning for her residents, she cares for her ten-year-old son, Solly, a sweet but challenging child whose misunderstood behavior finds Ella on the receiving end of pity, derision, and suspicion. When David Rainwater arrives...
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It is 1922, and London is tense. Ex-servicemen are disillusioned, the out-of-work and the hungry are demanding change. And in South London, in a genteel Camberwell villa, a large silent house now bereft of brothers, husband and even servants, life is about to be transformed, as impoverished widow Mrs. Wray and her spinster daughter, Frances, are obliged to take in lodgers.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 2
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In 1932 Kit finds that she has hard lessons to learn about the Depression, Both at home, where she is helping her mother run a boarding house while her father looks for a new job, and at school, where a fight spoils the preparations for the Thanksgiving pageant.
9) Icefire
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Last dragon chronicles volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 10
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While researching the existence of dragons for an essay that could win him a trip to the Arctic, Chris opens himself to the possibility that a great, ancient treasure exists there, guarded by bears, and that he has some role in its protection.
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Mysteries of Maisie Hitchins volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 3
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Junior sleuth Maisie Hitchins, who lives in her grandmother's boarding house in Victorian London, uncovers an intriguing plot involving stolen sausages, pilfered halfpennies, and a fast-paced bicycle chase.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 14
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Anne Shirley has left Redmond College behind to begin a new job and a new chapter of her life away from Green Gables. Now she faces a new challenge: the Pringles. They're known as the royal family of Summerside - and they quickly let Anne know she is not the person they had wanted as principal of Summerside High School. But as she settles into the cozy tower room at Windy Poplars, Anne finds she has great allies in the widows Aunt Kate and Aunt Chatty...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 16
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Since the Publication of Her First Novel, the New York Times bestselling Girl in Hyacinth Blue, and its sumptuous follow-up, The Passion of Artemisia, Susan Vreeland has dazzled fans all over the globe, with her books' having been translated into nearly twenty different languages. In The Forest Lover, she transports readers yet again to another gorgeous time and place -- the lush, untamed British Columbian Coast at the turn of the twentieth century...
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Mysteries of Maisie Hitchins volume 2
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 3
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In Victorian London, Maisie Hitchins, a young detective who lives in her grandmother's boarding house, finds herself immersed in the excitement and glamour of the theater when she investigates the theft of a valuable necklace belonging to an actress friend of a longtime boarder.
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"When their father's death leaves them impoverished, Sarah Summers convinces her sisters to open their seaside home to guests to provide for their ailing mother. Emily and Georgiana agree, but Viola, who wears a veil to cover a scar, detests the idea. Determined to stay together, the sisters begin the new venture. Instead of the elderly invalids they expect, however, they find themselves hosting eligible gentlemen. Sarah is torn between a growing...
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Candlewood trilogy volume 3
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Christian Historical Fiction. (Candlewood Trilogy ; 3)
16) A time to bloom
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Leah's garden volume 2
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"Delphinium Nielsen and her sisters have accomplished much in the past year, traveling west and settling in Nebraska. They are on their way to building a garden in dedication to their mother and working against the forces of nature to make their farm thrive. However, none of that can mask their concern that they are quickly running out of money. Del's work teaching in their booming town offers hope, not only to support her sisters financially, but...
18) Tomb of Ancients
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House of furies volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 12
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Although Louisa and her friends moved to London to escape Coldthistle House, Louisa knows she must return to find the gateway between worlds and to fight her father's evil influence.
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[2016]
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Only God knew why Jillian Slater agreed to return to New Orleans on the news that her father had finally drunk himself to death. It's not like they were close. She hadn't seen him - or her grandmother, the ice queen - in almost twenty years. But when Adella Atwater, the manager of her grandmother's apartment house, called and said her expenses would be paid if she'd fly in for the burial, a free trip to New Orleans was too intriguing to resist. What...
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Mysteries of Maisie Hitchins volume 5
Pub. Date
2014
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 3
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"Maisie sets out to uncover the true identity of the new lodger at her gran's boarding house and uncovers a more complicated--and dangerous--mystery than she could have imagined"--