Fiona Hardingham
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Pub. Date
2016
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
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An eerie gothic fairytale with a World War II setting and magic at its heart— and the recipient of four starred reviews and multiple honors.
Twelve-year-old Katherine Bateson believes in a logical explanation for everything. But even she can't make sense of the strange goings-on at Rookskill Castle, the drafty old Scottish castle-turned-school where she and her siblings have been sent to escape the London Blitz. What's making those mechanical...
Twelve-year-old Katherine Bateson believes in a logical explanation for everything. But even she can't make sense of the strange goings-on at Rookskill Castle, the drafty old Scottish castle-turned-school where she and her siblings have been sent to escape the London Blitz. What's making those mechanical...
Author
Pub. Date
2016
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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Description
"Deserves a spot on the shelf next to the most beloved children's classics—yes, even The Secret Garden." —Shelf Awareness, Starred Review
Described as "reminiscent of the Chronicles of Narnia" in a starred review, The Secret Horses of Briar Hill shows readers everywhere that there is color in our world—they just need to know...
Described as "reminiscent of the Chronicles of Narnia" in a starred review, The Secret Horses of Briar Hill shows readers everywhere that there is color in our world—they just need to know...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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A stunning middle grade fantasy about a girl who used to be a dragon and her adventure to save her new home—from Even the Darkest Stars author Heather Fawcett. Perfect for fans of the Nevermoor and His Dark Materials series.
Ember St. George is a dragon. At least she was before her adoptive father—a powerful but accident-prone Magician—turned her into a human girl to save her life.
Unfortunately,
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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"Cubs Stellan and Jytte survived their treacherous trek across the Nunquivik, but their quest to rescue their mother has only begun. Svenna is imprisoned at the sinister Ice Clock--the headquarters of the Gran Patek, whose dangerous influence is spreading throughout the bear kingdom. Only one bear has ever stood up to the Grand Patek--Svern, the cubs' father, a famous warrior who's been in exile for years. And so, along with their friend, Third, the...
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Series
Bears of the ice volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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"Do cubs Stellan and Jytte have what it takes to become the leaders of the resistance? Or will the polar bears be left on their own to battle the greatest enemy Ga'Hoole has ever known?"--
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Series
Bears of the ice volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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It is a time of trouble in the Northern Kingdoms because a group of power-hungry polar bears called Roguers has been snatching cubs from their mothers and killing those who resist; but Svenna is not about to relinquish her two cubs to that fate, so she agrees to go with the Roguers and serve Mystress of the Hands if her cubs, who have special powers, are allowed to stay with her cousin--but nobody is truly safe when a way of life is collapsing around...
7) The Crims
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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The Addams Family meets Despicable Me in the first book of this new trilogy, perfect for fans of Lemony Snicket and Pseudonymous Bosch!
The Crim family is full of notorious criminals. Notoriously inept, that is. Uncle Knuckles once tried to steal a carnival. Great-Uncle Bernard held himself hostage by accident. Aunt Drusilla died slipping on a banana peel. But Imogen is different. She was born with a skill for scandal. A knack for the nefarious....
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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Angie Sage, New York Times bestselling author of the Septimus Heap series, crafts a fantasy world where enchantment is illegal, Oracles knit octopuses, wizards run around in soggy underpants, and one girl is on a mission to save Enchantment and Enchanters, which might just save the kingdom.
Alex has a set of Enchanted cards. When she flutters her fingers above them, something magical happens: the cards come alive and create moving pictures of what...
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Unwanteds Quests volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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"Magical twins Fifer and Thisbe Stowe have spent their entire lives wishing for an adventure. When a dragon shows up claiming that his family is being kept as slaves in their homeland, the twins sneak off to the land of the dragons to help them"--
10) Dragon bones
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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Trapped underground in the catacombs and made to transport the bones of ancient dragon rulers to the extracting room, where others extract the magical properties dormant in the bones, twin Thisbe must learn how to control her own fiery magic and use it to escape.
11) Dragon ghosts
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Series
Unwanteds Quests volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 15
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English
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Ten years after Alex and Aaron Stowe brought peace to Quill and Artimé, their younger twin sister's journey beyond Artimé in the third novel in the New York Times bestselling sequel series to The Unwanteds, which Kirkus Reviews called "The Hunger Games meets Harry Potter."
Devastated by loss and hampered by a civil war in the Land of the Dragons, Fifer and Simber struggle to lead the rest of their team in a seemingly hopeless search for Fifer's...
12) Dragon fire
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Series
Unwanteds Quests volume 05
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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Leaving Dev to face the Revinir alone, Thisbe leads a group to Artime to help Fifer, Aaron, and his allies combat the reckless new head mage, Frieda Stubbs.
13) Dragon curse
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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Ten years after Alex and Aaron Stowe brought peace to Quill and Artimé, Alex and his Unwanteds set out to rescue his sister, Thisbe, from dragon land leaving her twin, Fifer, behind.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
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For fans of Lemony Snicket's Series of Unfortunate Events and Trenton Lee Stewart's Mysterious Benedict Society, here comes the final book in the Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place, the acclaimed and hilarious Victorian mystery series by Maryrose Wood.
Unhappy Penelope Lumley is trapped in unhappy Plinkst! Even the beets for which Plinkst is inexplicably famous fail to grow in this utterly miserable Russian village. Penelope anxiously counts...
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The Luck Uglies volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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"When Rye O'Chanter is declared an outlaw from her own village, she finds herself stuck on a strange remote island. But the island comes to feel much less remote when the battle over the future of the Luck Uglies moves to its shores"--
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
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After rescuing her father in the forest Beyond the Shale, Rye works to help him take control of both the Luck Uglies and the Fork-Tongue Charmers, but when she returns home to the Drowning, she finds it beset by Bog Noblins.
17) The Luck Uglies
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 12
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English
Description
Eleven-year-old Rye O'Chanter and her two friends delve into the secret lore of their village when mysterious creatures of legend reappear on the night of the Black Moon, leading them to the notorious secret society, the Luck Uglies.
18) The bone garden
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Made from bone dust and imagination, Irreélle accidentally destroys another of Miss Vesper's creations and flees to the underside of the graveyard, seeking the magic that brings bones to life.