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41) Scorpia
Author
Series
Alex Rider adventures volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 12
Description
After being told that his father was an assassin for a criminal organization, fourteen-year-old Alex goes to Italy to find out more and becomes involved in a plan to kill thousands of English schoolchildren.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 7
Description
The UK's #1 bestselling children's author, David Walliams, is back with a thrilling historical adventure with life-or-death stakes-chock-full of Walliams's unmistakable humor and perfect for fans of Stuart Gibbs and Gordon Korman.
1940. BRITAIN IS AT WAR WITH NAZI GERMANY.
Eleven-year-old Eric practically lives at the London Zoo. And there's one animal in particular he loves to spend time with: Gertrude the gorilla.
But with German bombs raining...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 10
Formats
Description
For nearly a century, Victorian London relied on "climbing boys" - orphans owned by chimney sweeps - to clean flues and protect homes from fire. The work was hard, thankless, and dangerous. Eleven-year-old Nan Sparrow is quite possibly the best climber who ever lived, and a girl. With her wits and will, she's managed to beat the deadly odds time and time again. But when Nan gets stuck in a deadly chimney fire, she fears her time has come. Instead,...
45) The Terrorist
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 6
Description
Sixteen-year-old Laura, an American living in London, tries to find the person responsible for the death of her younger brother Billy, who has been killed by a terrorist bomb.
46) Dear killer
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 13
Description
"Kit, a seventeen-year-old moral nihilist serial killer, chooses who to kill based on anonymous letters left in a secret mailbox, while simultaneously maintaining a close relationship with the young detective in charge of the murder cases"--
Author
Series
Goosebumps. Original series volume 27
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 3
Description
"Sue and her brother, Eddie, are visiting London when they run into a little problem. They can't find their tour group. Still, there's no reason to panic. Because there's no way their tour guide would just leave them. All alone. In a gloomy old prison tower. There's no way they'd get locked inside. After dark. With those eerie sounds. And a strange dark figure who wants them...dead"--P. [4] of cover.
48) The Fear
Author
Series
Enemy series (Charlie Higson) volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 17
Description
In London, after a worldwide sickness infects adults, turning them into zombie-like creatures, DogNut and his crew embark on a deadly mission to find missing friends, as hungry, bloodthirsty grownups lie in wait.
50) The Bolds
Author
Series
The Bolds volume 1
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 3
Description
Two hyenas from Africa find a pair of passports (memo: do not go swimming in a crocodile pool), and move to Teddington, England, where they live suburban lives, hold jobs, and raise their children to hide their tails and act human--the only trouble is old Mr. McNumpty, their nosy neighbor, who is hiding a secret of his own.
51) The Fallen
Author
Series
Enemy series (Charlie Higson) volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 18
Description
"First the sickness rotted the adults' minds. Then their bodies. Now they stalk the streets of London, hunting human flesh. The Holloway crew are survivors. They've fought their way across the city and made it to the Natural History Museum alive--just barely. But their fight will never end while the Enemy lives, unless there's another way... The kids at the museum are looking for a cure. All they need are medical supplies.To get them they must venture...
52) Passenger
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 17
Description
Jack and Conner are drawn back to Marbury to rescue other friends and attempt to destroy the lens that transports them to the alternate world.
53) The necromancer
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 13
Formats
Description
Back in London, fifteen-year-old twins Sophie and Josh Newman must determine whom they can and cannot trust as they search for both Scatty and an immortal who can teach Josh the magic of fire, while Doctor Dee and Machiavelli continue to seek power.
55) Scrivener's moon
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 15
Description
When she returns home after two years, Fever finds that her Scriven mother's creation, New London, the city on wheels, is nearly complete and ready to fight the nomad tribes of Britain--and Fever must journey to the north to find the ancient birthplace of the Scriven mutants and solve the mystery of her own past.
57) Oliver Twist
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 2
Formats
Description
The story of Oliver Twist - orphaned, and set upon by evil and adversity from his first breath - shocked readers when it was published. After running away from the workhouse and pompous beadle Mr Bumble, Oliver finds himself lured into a den of thieves peopled by vivid and memorable characters - the Artful Dodger, vicious burglar Bill Sikes, his dog Bull's Eye, and prostitute Nancy, all watched over by cunning master-thief Fagin. Combining elements...
Author
Series
Bartimaeus trilogy volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 24
Appears on list
Formats
Description
In their continuing adventures, magician's apprentice Nathaniel, now fourteen years old, and the djinni Bartimaeus travel to Prague to locate the source of a golem's power before it destroys London.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 7
Formats
Description
When Ted and Kat's cousin Salim disappears from the London Eye ferris wheel, the two siblings must work together--Ted with his brain that is "wired differently" and impatient Kat--to try to solve the mystery of what happened to Salim.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 11
Description
Since her mother died when she was born Sara and her father became very close. Sara has to go away to an all girl boarding school in Britian, because her father has to fight in the war. One day a messenger comes and tells her that her father is dead. Since Sara will lose all the money her father has she is forced to be a maid with the other maid who is black named Becky just so she can have a place to live. She finds out that her father is not dead,...