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Arthur Less novels volume 1
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Receiving an invitation to his ex-boyfriend's wedding, Arthur, a failed novelist on the eve of his fiftieth birthday, embarks on an international journey that finds him falling in love, risking his life, reinventing himself, and making connections with the past.
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Crispin volume 3
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 7
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Branded as traitors by the king's authorities, Crispin and his guardian, Bear, flee to coastal towns in fourteenth-century England, where they perform a musical juggling act and bond as a family after befriending a disfigured girl.
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Ibis trilogy volume 1
Pub. Date
2008
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The "Ibis," embarks on a journey from Calcutta with a diverse crew of sailors ; which includes a bankrupt raja, a widowed tribeswoman, a Mulatto American freedman, and a French orphan ; to the poppy fields in Ganges, to China's nineteenth century Opium War.
4) Savvy
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Savvy (Ingrid Law) volume 1
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 9
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Recounts the adventures of Mibs Beaumont, whose thirteenth birthday has revealed her "savvy"--A magical power unique to each member of her family--just as her father is injured in a terrible accident.
5) The road
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
670L
Description
America is a barren landscape of smoldering ashes, devoid of life except for those people still struggling to scratch out some type of existence. Amidst the destruction, a father and his young son walk, always toward the coast, but with no real understanding that circumstances will improve once they arrive. Still they persevere, and their relationship comes to represent goodness in a world that is utterly devastated.
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Pub. Date
2011
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When Luz Avila's grandmother dies before she can take a planned road trip home to Mexico, Luz decides to take her grandmother's ashes home. Along the way she attracts a collection of lost women, each seeking to change their lives. Now they're on a transformational journey that follows migrating monarch butterflies across the U.S. to Mexico.
10) Wolf brother
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Chronicles of ancient darkness volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 8
Description
6,000 years in the past, twelve-year-old Tarak and his guide, a wolf cub, set out on a dangerous journey to fulfill an oath the boy made to his dying father--to travel to the Mountain of the World Spirit seeking a way to destroy a demon-possessed bear that threatens all the clans.
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Dodsworth volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
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When Dodsworth sets out for adventure, including a stop in New York City before going to Paris, London, and beyond, he does not expect a crazy duck to stow away in his suitcase and lead him on a merry chase.
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Pub. Date
2010
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Olivier, the priggish son of French aristocrats, embarks on a tour of America in the early nineteenth century, accompanied by Parrot, a survivor of Australia's penal system who has been hired as both servant and secret spy by Olivier's mother, and while the two men, at polar ends of society, start out hating each other, they eventually become fast friends.
15) The red pyramid
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 18
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After their father's research experiment at the British Museum unleashes the Egyptian god Seth, Carter and Sadie Kane embark on a dangerous journey across the globe--a quest which brings them ever closer to the truth about their family, and their links to a secret order that has existed since the time of the pharaohs.
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Little blue envelopes volume 1
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Description
When seventeen-year-old Ginny receives a packet of mysterious envelopes from her favorite aunt, she leaves New Jersey to criss-cross Europe on a sort of scavenger hunt that transforms her life.
18) Ship of destiny
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Liveship traders volume 3
Pub. Date
2000
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The final volume in the Liveship Traders trilogy finds Althea Vestrit continuing her quest to regain the liveship Vivacia from the ruthless pirate Kennit.
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Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 8
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While running away from a London foster home just before her fifteenth birthday, Holly has ample time to consider her years of residential care and her early life with her Irish mother, whom she is now trying to reach.
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As her only child readies for college, fabric shop owner Linda Davis is torn between excitement for Molly and heartache for herself. Mother and daughter decide to share one last adventure -- a cross-country road trip to move Molly into her dorm. As they make their way through the heart of the nation, Linda pieces together the scraps that make up Molly's young life. And in stitching each bit of fabric, she discovers that the memories can come together...
