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Author
Series
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Hazel Sinnett is a medical student in 19th century Scotland who, after being kicked out because of her gender, works with new attractive acquaintance Jack Currer to procure dead bodies to study, but they soon discover secrets buried in the heart of Edinburgh society.
Author
Series
Stalking Jack the Ripper volume 2
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
Bizarre murders are discovered in the castle of Prince Vlad the Impaler, otherwise known as Dracula. Could it be a copycat killer...or has the depraved prince been brought back to life?
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
When Hazel becomes the personal physician to Princess Charlotte, the sickly granddaughter of King George III, she is dragged into the glamor and romance of the British court, but she soon realizes malicious forces are at work in the monarchy, and she may be the only one capable of setting things right.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
In a country governed by isolation, fear, and a tyrannical dictator, seventeen-year-old Cristian Florescu is blackmailed by the secret police to become an informer, but he decides to use his position to try to outwit his handler, undermine the regime, give voice to fellow Romanians, and expose to the world what is happening in his country. Includes author's note.
Author
Series
Montague siblings volume 1
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Vowing to make his yearlong escapade across Europe his last hurrah before taking over the family estate, Henry "Monty" Montague and his best friend Percy find themselves in the middle of a dangerous manhunt involving pirates and highwaymen.
Author
Series
Stalking Jack the Ripper volume 1
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
A gothic murder mystery set in gritty Victorian-era London, where an intrepid society girl finds herself embroiled in the investigation of a serial killer known as Jack the Ripper.
7) Torch
Author
Publisher
Carolrhoda Lab, an imprint of Lerner Publishing Group, Inc
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
When 17-year-old Pavol fatally sets himself on fire in Prague in 1969 to protest the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, his three best friends must figure out how to survive an oppressive regime without him.
Author
Publisher
Harper Teen
Pub. Date
2017
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
World War II has erupted in Valka's homeland of Russia, and Valka is determined to help the effort. She's a good pilot so she eagerly joins an all-female bomber regiment. As the war intensifies and those around her fall, Valka must decide how much she is willing to risk to defend the skies she once called home.
Author
Series
Lady Helen novels volume 3
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
Retreating to a country estate outside Bath to prepare for her wedding, Lady Helen and Lord Carlston must work together to defeat the Grand Deceiver, who threatens to throw mankind into chaos.
11) House of Furies
Author
Series
House of furies volume 1
Publisher
Harper Teen
Pub. Date
2017
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Escaping from her harsh school before finding work as a maid in an English boarding house, Louisa realizes that her mysterious employer and his staff execute cruel judgments on the guests.
Author
Series
At Somerton volume 1
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
The intertwined lives of the prominent Averley family and the servants of Somerton Court are forever changed when an old secret comes to light.
13) Fawkes
Author
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Thomas Fawkes is turning to stone, and the only cure to the Stone Plague is to join his father's plot to assassinate the king of England.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
In the early sixteen-hundreds, two star-crossed assassins, nineteen-year-old Toby and seventeen-year-old Kit, go undercover as actors in a Shakespeare play in a plot to kill Queen Elizabeth.
15) A million to one
Author
Publisher
Harper Teen
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
An acrobat, an actress, an artist, and a thief, four girls who seemingly have nothing in common, work together and plot a heist to steal the Rubaiyat, a priceless book encrusted with gems, off the Titanic.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Deciding to become a spy after her father is killed and his money goes missing, Annis Whitworth uses her talent for sewing magical garments to open a dressmaking shop as a cover while she quietly searchs for her father's murderer.
Author
Series
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 26
Language
English
Description
When Sybella discovers there is another trained assassin from St. Mortain's convent deep undercover in the French court, she must use every skill in her arsenal to navigate the deadly royal politics and find her sister-in-arms before her time--and that of the newly crowned queen--runs out.
Author
Publisher
Page Street Publishing Co
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
A reimagining of the infamous 17th-century poisoning scandal involving Louis XIV finds a young alchemist discovering her mother's secret criminal activities before teaming up with an illegitimate royal in a rebellion against a murderous underground society.
Author
Publisher
Andrews McMeel Publishing
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Song of Freedom, Song of Dreams is a historical YA novel in verse that centers around a young pianist in East Germany trying to make sense of love, duty, and the pursuit of dreams during the unsettled months of protest that led to the fall of the Berlin Wall in the late 1980s. Written in stunning lyrical verse, Song of Freedom, Song of Dreams is a story of hope, courage, romance, and the power of music not only to change lives, but to save them.
20) One for all
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
In 1655 sixteen-year-old Tania is the daughter of a retired musketeer, but she is afflicted with extreme vertigo and subject to frequent falls; when her father is murdered she finds that he has arranged for her to attend Madame de Treville's newly formed Académie des Mariées in Paris, which, it turns out, is less a school for would-be wives, than a fencing academy for girls--and so Tania begins her training to be a new kind of musketeer, and to...
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