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1) The kindred
Author
Language
English
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"Joy Abara knows her place. A commoner from the lowly planet Hali, she lives a simple life--apart from the notoriety that being Kindred to the nobility's most infamous playboy brings. Duke Felix Hamdi has a plan. He will exasperate his noble family to the point that they agree to let him choose his own future and finally meet his Kindred face-to-face. Then the royal family is assassinated, putting Felix next in line for the throne...and accused of...
Author
Series
Embassy Row novels volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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Description
Desperate to protect her younger brother Jamie, Grace Blakely, her brother, and her friend Alexei are on the run from the forces in Adria who threaten them because Jamie is the true heir to the throne--but it is hard to hide from Prime Minister Alexandra Petrovic and the secret society that is part of Grace's family heritage, and even harder to know who to trust.
3) Prodigy
Author
Series
Legend (Marie Lu) volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
June and Day make their way to Las Vegas where they join the rebel Patriot group and become involved in an assassination plot against the Elector in hopes of saving the Republic.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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Description
Fifteen-year-old Jack is sent to 1914 Europe as a pawn in the battle between his long-lost father, who has built a time machine, and a secret network of scientists who want to prevent him from trying to use it to change history for the better. Includes historical notes.
Author
Series
Legend (Lu: Graphic novels) volume 2
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
June allows herself to be captured so that she can assist an assassination plot against a new Elector Primo by the rebel Patriots leader, in a graphic novel adaptation of the second book in the trilogy.
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
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Description
Mirage has returned to Coeur d'Or, triumphant in battle, and ready to claim her rightful place as the Amber Empress, and resume her tentative romance with Sunder; but the city's people are afraid and not welcoming, somebody is trying to assassinate her, the previous empress, Severine, is in a coma and not as dead as Mirage would wish, and a distant cousin Gavin d'Ars has turned up with a rival claim to the throne--and in the turmoil all her alliances...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
This historical fiction picture book presents the story of nine-year-old Lorraine Jackson, who in 1968 witnessed the Memphis sanitation strike--Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s final stand for justice before his assassination--when her father, a sanitation worker, participated in the protest.
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Series
Of fire and stars volume 1
Language
English
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Description
"Betrothed since childhood to the prince of Mynaria, Princess Dennaleia has always known what her future holds. Her marriage will seal the alliance between Mynaria and her homeland, protecting her people from other hostile kingdoms. But Denna has a secret. She possesses an Affinity for fire--a dangerous gift for the future queen of a land where magic is forbidden. Now Denna has to learn the ways of her new kingdom while trying to hide her growing...
Author
Series
Spy school volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Ben Ripley is assigned to protect the president from an assassination attempt in his first solo mission, but he may be in over his head.
Author
Series
Evermore chronicles volume 1
Publisher
Skyscape
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Everley Donovan, the sole survivor of her family's assassination, is saved by a replacement clockwork heart, and goes on a quest to expose Killian Markham, the navy admiral who left her for dead.
11) Der fanger
Author
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
Yiddish
Description
Di tsṿeyṭe ṿelṭ milḥomeh hoṭ zikh geʼendigṭ. Di iberleber prubirn fargesn fun di shṿere iberlebenishn... A ḳleyene grupe menṭshn, ongefirṭ durkh Iser, zenen anṭshlosn nishṭ tsu fargesn, un prubirn nemen shriṭ--- Ṿer iz Iser? Ṿer iz Frants Shṿartsṿald?--
Isser, Holocaust survivor, is bent on revenge, and organizes a private hit squad, against the advice of Shimon to rather bring them to trial. In the end, Isser...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
In 1582 thirteen-year-old Emilia Bassano is a lute player and aspiring playwright who stumbles on a plot to kill Queen Elizabeth, and is recruited by Sir Francis Walsingham to go to the castle where Mary Queen of Scots is being held and discover who is responsible for the plot.