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English
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During a party at the family farm in the English countryside, sixteen-year-old Laurel Nicolson has escaped to her childhood tree house and is dreaming of the future. She spies a stranger coming up the road and sees her mother speak to him. Before the afternoon is over, Laurel will witness a shocking crime that challenges everything she knows about her family and especially her mother, Dorothy. Now, fifty years later, Laurel is a successful and well-regarded...
Author
Series
Harry Potter volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
During his third year at Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry, Harry Potter must confront the devious and dangerous wizard responsible for his parents' deaths.
Author
Language
English
Description
"The multimillion-copy New York Times bestselling author B.A. Paris returns to her heartland of gripping psychological suspense in The Therapist--a powerful tale of a house that holds a shocking secret. When Alice and Leo move into a newly renovated housein The Circle, a gated community of exclusive houses, it is everything they've dreamed of. But appearances can be deceptive... As Alice is getting to know her neighbours, she discovers a devastating...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Description
When pregnant American student Charlie St. Clair is banished to Europe by her family to have her baby, she takes the opportunity to head for London to find her missing French cousin and teams up with Eve, a former spy from the Alice Network, to solve the mystery.
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Language
English
Description
Hidden in the depths of eighteenth-century London, a secret apothecary shop caters to an unusual kind of clientèle. Women across the city whisper of a mysterious figure named Nella who sells well-disguised poisons to use against the oppressive men in their lives. But the apothecary's fate is jeopardized when her newest patron, a precocious twelve-year-old, makes a fatal mistake, sparking a string of consequences that echo through the centuries.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Juliet Ashton, a thirty-year-old author, writes to her publisher expressing her desire to stop covering the aftermath of WWII, but Guernsey farmer Dawsey Adams invites neighbors to write to Juliet with their stories, which puts her off at first but eventually helps her find inspiration for her next book, and her life.
Author
Series
Bridget Jones's diary volume 02
Publisher
Recorded books
Pub. Date
[2000]
Physical Desc
10 audio discs (10 hrs., 45 min.) : digital, stereophonic ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Bridget Jones, having decided to give Mark Darcy a chance, finds herself wrestling with the realities of sharing bed and board with a man, and things become complicated even further with the arrival on the scene of the beautiful, man-hunting Rebecca.
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Series
Publisher
Tantor Audio
Pub. Date
�2006, �1998
Physical Desc
1 sound media player (10 hr.) : digital ; 9 x 6 cm + 1 set of earphones + 1 AAA battery + 1 lanyard.
Language
English
Description
Set in 1919, young couple Tommy Beresford and Tuppence Cowley form a partnership, hiring themselves out as "young adventurers". Their first case, however, is more of an adventure than they expect - working to find secret documents that, if they were known to the general public, would fuel a communist revolution in Britain. They know that Jane Finn had the documents when she disappeared five years ago. What they don't know is that a killer is targeting...
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Series
Thursday Murder Club mystery volume 1
Language
English
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"In a peaceful retirement village, four unlikely friends meet weekly in the Jigsaw Room to discuss unsolved crimes; together they call themselves The Thursday Murder Club. There's Red Ron, the infamous former socialist firebrand, still causing trouble; gentle Joyce, widowed, pining for another resident, but surely not as innocent as she seems; Ibrahim, a former therapist who understands the darker side of human nature; and Elizabeth? Well, no one...
14) Artemis Fowl
Author
Series
Artemis Fowl volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
When a twelve-year-old evil genius tries to restore his family fortune by capturing a fairy and demanding a ransom in gold, the fairies fight back with magic, technology, and a particularly nasty troll.
Author
Series
Harry Potter volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
When the Chamber of Secrets is opened again at the Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry, second-year student Harry Potter finds himself in danger from a dark power that has once more been released on the school.
Author
Series
[The Harry Potter series] volume 2
Language
English
Description
'There is a plot, Harry Potter. A plot to make most terrible things happen at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry this year.'
Harry Potter's summer has included the worst birthday ever, doomy warnings from a house-elf called Dobby, and rescue from the Dursleys by his friend Ron Weasley in a magical flying car! Back at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry for his second year, Harry hears strange whispers echo through empty corridors -...
17) The rebel bride
Author
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
Library edition.
Physical Desc
1 sound media player (11 hr., 29 min.) : digital ; 3 3/8 x 2 1/8 cm
Language
English
Description
When Julien St. Clair, earl of March, first sees Katharine Brandon, she's dressed like a boy while engaged in a duel with her brother. As for Julien, he's bored, restless, knows he's missing something. He doesn't know what it is until he meets Katharine, and he falls hard. He sets out on a courtship that doesn't end, however, they way he envisioned. But he doesn't give up. Finally, he gains a bride who, unfortunately, is terrified of him. But why?...
Author
Series
Magic tree house volume 25
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Jack and Annie travel in their magic tree house to Elizabethan London, where they become actors in a production of A Midsummer Night's Dream and try to rescue a tame bear.
19) Someone to love
Author
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
Still grieving three years after his fiancee's mysterious suicide, Jace Montgomery discovers a clue about her death that leads him to purchase an English fortress, where he encounters a headstrong ghost who died under similar circumstances.
Author
Series
Harry Potter volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
During his third year at Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry, Harry Potter must confront the devious and dangerous wizard responsible for his parents' deaths.