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42) Boston Jacky: being an account of the further adventures of Jacky Faber, taking care of business
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
The irrepressible Jacky Faber, recently arrived in Boston, finds herself at odds with the Women's Temperance Union and local residents angry at the arrival of hundreds of Irish immigrants on a ship owned by Faber Shipping Worldwide.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
Zulaikha, a thirteen-year-old girl in Afghanistan, faces a series of frightening but exhilarating changes in her life as she defies her father and secretly meets with an old woman who teaches her to read, her older sister gets married, and American troops offer her surgery to fix her disfiguring cleft lip.
Author
Series
Tale of magic volume 1
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
"When Brystal Evergreen stumbles across a secret section of the library, she discovers a book that introduces her to a world beyond her imagination and learns the impossible: She is a fairy capable of magic! But in the oppressive Southern Kingdom, women are forbidden from reading and magic is outlawed, so Brystal is swiftly convicted of her crimes and sent to the miserable Bootstrap Correctional Facility. But with the help of the mysterious Madame...
Author
Series
Crown of feathers volume 1
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 26
Language
English
Formats
Description
Veronyka, sixteen, leaves her controlling sister and disguises herself as a boy to join a secret group of warriors who ride phoenixes into battle.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Description
In 1803, after being exposed as a girl and forced to leave her ship, Jacky Faber finds herself attending school in Boston, where, instead of learning to be a lady, she battles her snobbish classmates, roams the city in search of adventure, and learns to ride a horse.
Author
Series
Wild Realm volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
Twelve-year-old Bryn's only hope of becoming a Seeker like her father is to help rival Ari train a baby dragon in exchange for sharing his training, but holds many secrets.
48) A Tale of Magic
Author
Series
Tale of magic volume 1
Pub. Date
2019
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Formats
Description
This #1 New York Times bestseller is the first book in a new series set in Chris Colfer's Land of Stories universe, perfect for both new and longtime fans! When Brystal Evergreen stumbles across a secret section of the library, she discovers a book that introduces her to a world beyond her imagination and learns the impossible: She is a fairy capable of magic! But in the oppressive Southern Kingdom, women are forbidden from...
49) Stormrise
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Her skills ignored because of her gender, Rain disguises herself as a boy and joins a secret military rescue unit tasked with rescuing the High King, and soon learns she must awaken the dragons that guarded the land centuries before.
"If Rain weren't a girl, she would be respected as a Neshu combat master. Instead, her gender dooms her to a colorless future. When an army of nomads invades her kingdom, and a draft forces every household to send one...
50) The grace year
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
In Garner County, girls are told they have the power to lure grown men from their beds; that their very skin emits a powerful aphrodisiac. That is why they're banished for their sixteenth year, to release their magic into the wild so they can return purified and ready for marriage. But not all of them will make it home alive. Tierney James dreams of a society that doesn't pit friend against friend or woman against woman. She fears the brutal elements,...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Engle's spare, rhythmic text gets at the heart of the struggle to achieve a dream in this picture-book biography about a Chinese African Cuban girl who aspired to play drums even when society's double standards stood as a barrier. Growing up in tempestuous 1930s Havana, during a time when universities were often shut down because of their opposition to the dictatorial President Machado, Millo Castro Zaldarriaga dared to dream of playing percussion...
Author
Series
Wild Realm volume 2
Publisher
Tantor Media, Inc
Pub. Date
2023
Edition
Unabridged
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Bryn, Ari, and their dragon Lilja discover a sick baby gyrpuff and join the rest of the Seekers in trying to determine if a dreadful plague has returned--and if human forces brought it back.
53) The last word
Author
Publisher
Swoon Reads
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
In 1861 London, eighteen-year-old Lucinda Leavitt evades plans to find her a suitable husband by enlisting the help of childhood friend David to seek the ending of her favorite author's last, unfinished book.
55) Donut days
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
During a camp-out promoting the opening of a donut shop in a small Minnesota town, sixteen-year-old Emma, an aspiring journalist, begins to connect an ongoing pollution investigation with the turmoil in the evangelical Christian church where her parents are pastors.
Author
Publisher
Browndeer Press/Harcourt Brace & Co
Pub. Date
©1994
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Because she does not sew, cook, or dance like a "proper senorita," Frida cannot please her mother until she saves the day at the fiesta with her special talent.
Author
Series
Sisters of the Sword volume 2
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
c2009
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
When, after intercepting a secret message from their mother, their evil Uncle Hidehira uncovers their samurai disguise, Kimi and Hana again must flee for their lives and, with the help of a fellow student, undertake a perilous journey to find their mother and brother before they are captured by Hidehira's samurai.
Author
Publisher
Disney Press
Pub. Date
2014
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
After being told that joining the Royal Prep's Flying Derby team is not a "princess thing," Sofia is encouraged by her mother to prove her critics wrong and try out for the team.
59) Triple threat
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Alex Carlisle loves football almost as much as she loves her father but when she joins the Orville Middle School football team, not all of the boys, or parents, are pleased.
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