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English
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When Elspeth Noblin dies, she leaves everything to the 20-year-old American twin daughters of her own long-estranged twin, Edie. Valentina and Julia, as enmeshed as Elspeth and Edie once were, move into Elspeth's London flat and through a series of developing relationships a crisis develops that could pull the twins apart.
82) Northanger Abbey
Author
Series
Publisher
Skyview Books
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Catherine Morland, a passionate and headstrong young woman, finds herself suddenly thrown into an adult world bristling with the possibility of intrigue, romance, and suspense.
Author
Series
Molly Moon volume 3
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
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Description
Molly Moon, reunited with her parents, is hypnotized by a mysterious turbaned gardener and eventually transported to India, where she meets not only a maharajah with a speech defect but also former versions of herself.
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
"On a Christmas holiday to Cambridge, Daisy and Hazel get caught up in another murder investigation, and a competition with rival detectives"--
85) The goldfish boy
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2017
Edition
Unabridged
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Emotionally crippled by his obsessive-compulsive disorder, teenager Matthew Corbin rarely leaves his room on a cul-de-sac in London, and he passes the day observing and writing down his neighbors' doings from his window--but when a toddler staying next door disappears Matt is the key to solving a mystery and possibly saving a child's life...if he can manage to expose himself, and his secret guilt to the outside world.
Author
Series
Children of the Red King volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
Back at Bloor's Academy after Christmas vacation, Charlie finds himself confronted with a new problem when young Henry Yewbeam, who vanished during a game of marbles in 1916, suddenly appears and needs help to find his family.
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First American edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Four years after Alfie Summerfield's father left London to become a soldier in World War I he has not returned but Alfie, now nine, is shining shoes at King's Cross Station when he happens to learn that his father is at a nearby hospital being treated for shell shock.
88) Unbecoming
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2017
Edition
Unabridged
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
Life has just become very complicated for seventeen-year-old Katie; her father walked out a year ago, her mother is stressed out, her brother is a "special needs" teenager, and she is caring for the maternal grandmother she has never met, who is sufferingfrom Alzheimer's--and Katie has a secret of her own that she cannot reveal.
Author
Series
Harry Potter (Illustrated series) volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
During his third year at Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry, Harry Potter must confront the devious and dangerous wizard responsible for his parents' deaths.
92) Untold
Author
Series
Lynburn legacy volume 2
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2013
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
As Kami Glass and her friends continue to battle the sorcerers of the Lynburn family in the sleepy English town of Sorry-in-the-Vale, friendships and families are torn apart.
Author
Series
Bartimaeus trilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
A graphic novel adaptation of the book in which 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.
94) The unseen guest
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
The children and Penelope, their governess, leave London and return to Ashton Place where Penelope decides to take matters into her own hands and do some investigating to find out the truth about the children, Lord Ashton, and herself.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First American edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Told in rhyming text, a majestic pine journeys from Norway to become London's Christmas tree. Includes a historical note explaining the annual tradition.
97) The dragon turn
Author
Series
Boy Sherlock Holmes volume 5
Publisher
Tundra
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Formats
Description
Young Sherlock Holmes helps his friend, Irene, celebrate her sixteenth birthday in the summer of 1869 by taking her to see the latest sensation to hit London--the magician, Alistair Hemsworth, promises to make a real dragon appear on stage--but before the act, Hemsworth is arrested for the murder of his rival, and though he has motive, Sherlock is not convinced he is guilty.
98) The Calder game
Author
Series
Chasing Vermeer volume 3
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
When seventh-grader Calder Pillay disappears from a remote English village--along with an Alexander Calder sculpture to which he has felt strangely drawn--his friends Petra and Tommy fly from Chicago to help his father find him.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
When sixteen-year-old AJ Flynn finds a mysterious key at his new job at a London law firm, he and his scrappy friends begin a series of journeys to 1830 where they discover a crime only they can solve.
AJ Flynn sees a future that’s far from rosy, so when he's offered a junior clerk position at a London law firm he believes his life is about to change. When he finds an old key labeled with his birth date he discovers the door opens into 1830. AJ...
100) Millions
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
After their mother dies, two brothers find a huge amount of money which they must spend quickly before England switches to the new European currency, but they disagree on what to do with it.
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