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Author
Series
Chaos walking volume 1
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
Pursued by power-hungry Prentiss and mad minister Aaron, young Todd and Viola set out across New World searching for answers about his colony's true past and seeking a way to warn the ship bringing hopeful settlers from Old World.
Author
Series
Chaos walking volume 3
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Description
As a world-ending war surges to life around them, Todd and Viola face monstrous decisions, questioning all they have ever known as they try to step back from the darkness and find the best way to achieve peace.
Author
Series
Chaos walking volume 2
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 16
Lexile measure
770L
Language
English
Description
Alternate chapters follow teenagers Todd and Viola, who become separated as the Mayor's oppressive new regime takes power in New Prentisstown, a space colony where residents can hear each other's thoughts.
Author
Series
The Unwanteds volume 5
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Alex and his friends are stranded on a newly-discovered island, and they are not alone, while in Quill, his twin Aaron's power base grows as he joins with an unlikely ally in a risky plan to finally conquer Artim�e.
6) Hard Times
Author
Language
English
Description
Hard Times depicts the lives of ordinary people during the industrial revolution in England. Dickens brings several characters to life and weaves an interesting story about their interactions with each other. Most of these characters are poor and they live in a pollution ridden town where the economy is based on coal production.
7) Miss Iceland
Author
Publisher
Black Cat
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First Grove Atlantic paperback edition.
Language
English
Description
"Iceland in the 1960s. Hekla always knew she wanted to be a writer. In a nation of poets, where each household proudly displays leatherbound volumes of the Sagas, and there are more writers per capita than anywhere else in the world, there is only one problem: she is a woman. After packing her few belongings, including James Joyces's Ulysess and a Remington typewriter, Hekla heads for Reykjavik with a manuscript buried in her bags. She moves in with...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
When a suspicious accident occurs at the famous Dinsmore Chocolate Factory in Sinclair, Kansas, Caroline Lang goes undercover as a factory worker to investigate the circumstances surrounding the event and how the factory treats its youngest employees—the child workers. Caroline’s fervent faith, her difficult childhood, and compassionate heart drove her to her job as an investigator for the Labor Commission and she is compelled to see children...
Author
Series
The Unwanteds volume 2
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st Aladdin hardcover ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
As the Wanteds, Unwanteds, and Necessaries struggle to adjust to changes in their society, Mr. Today begins training fourteen-year-old Alex to replace him as Artime's leader one day while Alex's disgraced twin, Aaron, connives to take over Quill.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
A boy on the run. A girl determined to find him. A compelling fantasy looks at issues of privilege, protest, and justice. All light in Chattana is created by one man -- the Governor, who appeared after the Great Fire to bring peace and order to the city. For Pong, who was born in Namwon Prison, the magical lights represent freedom, and he dreams of the day he will be able to walk among them. But when Pong escapes from prison, he realizes that the...
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