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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 19
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Nathaniel, a young magician's apprentice, becomes caught in a web of magical espionage, murder, and rebellion, after he summons the djinni Bartimaeus and instructs him to steal the Amulet of Samarkand from the powerful magician Simon Loveland.
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Series
Shades of London volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 11
Description
"After her near-fatal run-in with the Jack the Ripper copycat, Rory Devereaux is back in London to help solve a new string of inexplicable deaths plaguing the city"-- Provided by publisher.
4) Tunnels
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Series
Tunnels volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 20
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14-year-old Will Burrows has little in common with his strange, dysfunctional family. In fact, the only bond he shares with his eccentric father is a passion for archaeological excavation. So when his dad mysteriously vanishes, Will is compelled to dig up the truth behind his disappearance. He unearths the unbelievable: a subterranean society that time forgot. "The Colony" has existed unchanged for a century, but it's no benign time capsule of a bygone...
Author
Series
Madman's daughter trilogy volume 2
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 16
Description
Back in London after escaping from her father's island and the secrets she left behind, Juliet Moreau strives to stop a killer while searching for a serum to cure her own worsening illness.
Author
Series
Shades of London volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 14
Description
Rory, of B�nouville, Louisiana, is spending a year at a London boarding school when she witnesses a murder by a Jack the Ripper copycat and becomes involved with the very unusual investigation.
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Series
Pub. Date
2007.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 21
Description
When an attempt to bring Peter and Kate back to their own time is bungled, Peter finds himself stranded in 1763 while The Tar Man, a villainous eighteenth-century criminal, returns with Kate to twenty-first-century London.
8) The Marvels
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
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Description
In 1766, a boy, Billy Marvel, is shipwrecked, rescued, and goes on to found a brilliant family of actors that flourishes in London until 1900--and nearly a century later, Joseph Jervis, runs away from home, seeking refuge with his uncle in London, and is captivated by the Marvel house, with its portraits and ghostly presences.
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Series
Pub. Date
[2012]
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Description
When a boy being chased through present-day London seeks refuge in the National Gallery, a dog escapes from the painting of one Dutch master and together they leap into the painting of another, where their adventures in seventeenth-century Delft are a prelude to returning to London and continuing the chase.
11) The Enemy
Author
Series
Enemy series (Charlie Higson) volume 1
Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 14
Description
Following the outbreak of a disease that has turned everyone over the age of sixteen into zombies, a group of young survivors barricade themselves in a store and struggle to survive. Eventually, they are offered a safe haven within Buckingham Palace, but quickly discover that the dangers inside the palace are just as real as those outside it.
12) Tall story
Author
Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 7
Description
Sixteen-year-old Bernardo, who is eight feet tall and suffers from a condition called Gigantism, leaves the Philipines to live with his mother's family in London, much to the delight of his thirteen-year-old half sister Andi, a passionate basketball player.
13) Scorpia
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Series
Alex Rider adventures volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 12
Description
After being told that his father was an assassin for a criminal organization, fourteen-year-old Alex goes to Italy to find out more and becomes involved in a plan to kill thousands of English schoolchildren.
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Bartimaeus trilogy volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 20
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Description
Dangerous adventures continue for the djinni Bartimaeus and his master, seventeen-year-old Nathaniel, a powerful magician who is serving as England's minister of information.
15) The hollow boy
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"Anthony, George, and Lucy investigate new hauntings, track down assassins, and a new assistant joins Lockwood & Co"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 16
Description
"Lockwood & Co. are hired to investigate Edmund Bickerstaff, a Victorian doctor who reportedly tried to communicate with the dead, while Lucy is distracted by urgent whispers coming from the skull in a ghost jar"--Provided by publisher.
17) Emerald green
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Series
Ruby red trilogy volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 17
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Description
Since learning she is the Ruby, the final member of the time-traveling Circle of Twelve, nothing has gone right for Gwen and she holds suspicions about both Count Saint-German and Gideon, but as she uncovers the Circle's secrets she finally learns her own destiny.
18) The crown heist
Author
Series
Lost Art mysteries volume 3
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
Description
Packed with fascinating facts about real places and pieces of art, this fast-paced thriller is perfect for fans of the Spy School and Mr. Limoncello's Library series and Dan Brown.
No matter how dangerous his adventures have been, Art has always been able to count on his best friend, Camille. Now that Camille is meeting her estranged father, Art wants to be there for her-which means going to London.
But Camille's history professor father, renowned...
19) Silvertongue
Author
Series
Stoneheart trilogy volume 3
Pub. Date
2009.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 16
Formats
Description
The battle between the statues and gargoyles of London rages on--and 12-year-old George Chapman and his friend Edie are caught in the middle. With the Walker intent on forcing his evil designs on the city and the world, George realizes that his destiny is inextricably tied to the Walker's destruction.
20) A darkling plain
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 23
Description
London is a radioactive ruin. But Tom and Wren discover that the old predator city hides an awesome secret that could bring an end to the war. But as they risk their lives in its dark underbelly, time is running out. Alone and far away, Hester faces a fanatical enemy who possesses the weapons and the will to destroy the entire human race.The final book in the Mortal Engines series, Philip Reeve's A Darkling Plain is the winner of the Guardian Children's...