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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 16
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English
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Propelled by the same superb instinct for storytelling that made The Kite Runner a beloved classic, the #1 New York Times bestseller A Thousand Splendid Suns is at once an incredible chronicle of thirty years of Afghan history and a deeply moving story of family, friendship, faith, and the salvation to be found in love.
“Just as good, if not better, than Khaled Hosseini’s best-selling first book, The...
“Just as good, if not better, than Khaled Hosseini’s best-selling first book, The...
2) Caraval
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Series
Caraval volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Scarlett has never left the tiny island where she and her beloved sister, Tella, live with their ruthless father. Now Scarlett's father has arranged a marriage for her, and Scarlett thinks her dreams of seeing Caraval, the legendary, once-a-year performance where the audience participates in the show, are over. But this year, Scarlett's long-dreamt-of invitation finally arrives. With the help of a mysterious sailor who she has just met, Tella whisks...
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Flame in the mist volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Wrath and the Dawn, comes a sweeping, action-packed YA adventure set against the backdrop of Feudal Japan where Mulan meets Tamora Pierce.The daughter of a prominent samurai, Mariko has long known her place--she may be an accomplished alchemist, whose cunning rivals that of her brother Kenshin, but because she is not a boy, her future has always been out of her hands. At just seventeen years old,...
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Caraval volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
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Having made a deal with a criminal to save her sister Scarlett from a disastrous arranged marriage, Tella must win Caraval and uncover Legend's identity, or risk losing everything, including her life.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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"Dimple Shah has it all figured out. With graduation behind her, she's more than ready for a break from her family, from Mamma's inexplicable obsession with her finding the 'Ideal Indian Husband.' Ugh. Dimple knows they must respect her principles on some level, though. If they truly believed she needed a husband right now, they wouldn't have paid for her to attend a summer program for aspiring web developers..right? Rishi Patel is a hopeless romantic....
7) Cruel beauty
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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Betrothed to the demon who rules her country and trained all her life to kill him, seventeen-year-old Nyx Triskelion must now fulfill her destiny and move to the castle to be his wife.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
"Princess Annika has lived a life of comfort--but no amount of luxuries can change the fact that her life isn't her own to control. The king, once her loving father, has gone cold, and Annika will soon be forced into a loveless marriage for political gain. Miles away, small comforts are few and far between for Lennox. He has devoted his life to the Dahrainian army, hoping to one day help them reclaim the throne that was stolen from them. For Lennox,...
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We set the dark on fire volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
"Dani must question everything she's worked for as she learns about the corruption of the Median government"--
10) Ransom my heart
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
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Mia Thermopolis, Princess of Genovia and star of Meg Cabot's insanely popular #1 New York Times bestselling Princess Diaries books, has 'penned' her first historical romance novel . . . with help from Meg Cabot.
He's a tall, handsome knight with a secret. She's an adventurous beauty with more than a few secrets of her own. Finnula needs money for her sister's dowry, and fast. Hugo Fitzstephen, returning home to England from the Crusades with saddlebags...
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Glittering Court volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 20
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English
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"For a select group of girls, the Glittering Court offers a shot at a life they've only ever dreamed of, one of luxury, glamour, and leisure. To high-born Adelaide, whose wealthy family is forcing her into a loveless marriage, the Glittering Court represents something else-- the chance to chart her own destiny, and adventure in an unspoiled, prosperous new land across the sea. After a chance meeting with the dazzling Cedric Thorn, Adelaide poses as...
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Star-touched queen volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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Treated with scorn and fear in her father's kingdom because of a formidable horoscope, 16-year-old Maya commits herself to her education only to land in an arranged marriage that culminates in her sudden elevation to the throne, a situation that is threatened by dark secrets and Otherworldly magic.
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Series
Girl called Fearless volume 1
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2014
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
After a synthetic hormone in beef kills fifty million American women, seventeen-year-old Avie struggles for a normal life in a world where teenage girls are a valuable commodity, but when her father contracts her to marry a rich, older man, Avie decides to run away with her childhood friend and revolutionary, Yates.
14) The emerald sea
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Series
Glittering Court volume 3
Publisher
Razorbill, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 24
Language
English
Description
"Tamsin Wright is unstoppable. She must become the Glittering Court's diamond: the girl with the highest test scores, the most glamorous wardrobe, and the greatest opportunities to match with an elite suitor in the New World. Training alongside other girls in the Glittering Court, Tamsin immerses herself completely in lessons about etiquette, history, and music--everything a high-society wife would need to know. Once she's married, she'll be able...
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Series
Traitor's trilogy (Erin Beaty) volume 2
Publisher
Imprint
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
Training completed, and comfortably situated as the royal tutor, the spy Sage Fowler only longs to be reunited with her betrothed: Captain Alex Quinn. As a way to be near to him again, she accepts a secret mission only to continuously clash with Quinn's gruff demeanor, until they are separated and she ends up in enemy territory.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
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Seventeen-year-old Rukhsana Ali is looking forward to going to Caltech and getting away from her conservative Muslim parents' expectation that she will marry, especially since she is in love with her girlfriend Ariana--but when her parents catch her kissing Ariana, they whisk Rukhsana off to Bangladesh and a world of tradition and arranged marriages, and she must find the courage to fight for the right to choose her own path.
17) Midnight jewel
Author
Series
Glittering Court volume 2
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
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When she gains entry into the Glittering Court, war refugee Mira continues to endure persecution while learning skills that help her earn anonymity, forging friendships that inspire her to hatch a daring but dangerous plan.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
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Seventeen-year-old Jessica, adopted and raised in Pennsylvania, learns that she is descended from a royal line of Romanian vampires and that she is betrothed to a vampire prince, who poses as a foreign exchange student while courting her.
Author
Series
Traitor's trilogy (Erin Beaty) volume 1
Publisher
Imprint
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
"Sage Fowler, the apprentice to a matchmaker, becomes a spy for the army to uncover a treasonous plot and finds herself entangled in a romance with a soldier"--Provided by publisher.
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Series
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
In an alternative past where the Franco-British Empire controls the world's only source of magic, Princess Marie-Victoria, heir to the throne, and Aelwyn Myrddyn, a bastard mage, rekindle their childhood friendship as they plot to save Marie from a loveless, political marriage.