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Author
Publisher
Walker Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
"Harry Black, a conscientious objector, artist, and firefighter battling the blazes of German bombing in London in 1944, wakes in the hospital to news that his soldier brother, Ellis, has been killed. In the delirium of his wounded state, Harry's mind begins to blur the distinctions between the reality of war-torn London, the fiction of his unpublished sci-fi novel, and the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice. Driven by visions of Ellis still alive and a...
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
"A novel based on the life of children's book author Arthur Ransome, who left his home, his wife, and daughter and fell in love with Russia and a Russian woman and was suspected, by both sides, of being a spy"--
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Four linked stories of discovery and survival begin with a Paleolithic-era girl who makes the first written signs, continue with Anna, who people call a witch, then a mad twentieth-century poet who watches the ocean knowing the horrors it hides, and concluding with an astronaut on the first spaceship from Earth sent to colonize another world.
Author
Publisher
Wendy Lamb Books
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Having always been able to know when someone is going to die, Alexandra poses as a nurse to go to France during World War I to locate her brother and to try to save him from the fate she has foreseen for him.
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
"Seven linked vignettes unfold on a Scandinavian island inhabited--throughout various time periods--by Vikings, vampires, ghosts, and a curiously powerful plant"--Provided by publisher.
9) White crow
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Rebecca moves with her father from London to a small, seaside village, where she befriends another motherless girl and they spend the summer together exploring the village's sinister history.
10) The Dark Horse
Author
Publisher
Wendy Lamb Books
Pub. Date
2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Having risen to power as chief of his people, the Storn, sixteen-year-old Sigurd leads them as they try to resist the bloodthirsty invaders known as the Dark Horse and makes a shocking discovery about his foster sister Mouse.
Author
Publisher
Square Fish, an imprint of Macmillan
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Laureth Peak's father is a writer. For years he's been trying, and failing, to write a novel about coincidence. His wife thinks he's obsessed, Laureth thinks he's on the verge of a breakdown. He's supposed to be doing research in Austria, so when his notebook shows up in New York, Laureth knows something is wrong. On impulse she steals her mother's credit card and heads for the States, taking her strange little brother Benjamin with her. Reunited...