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81) The captive
Author
Series
Julian Escobar series volume 1
Pub. Date
[1979]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 9
Description
As part of a Spanish expedition to the New World, a Jesuit seminarian witnesses the enslavement and exploitation of the Mayas and his own seduction by greed and ambition.
Author
Series
Julius Zebra volume 1
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 3
Description
From a smelly watering hole deep in the heart of the Serengeti to the ferocious clamor of the Colosseum, join Julius Zebra and his motley menagerie of friends as they gear up to be gladiators! Only if they win the love of the Roman crowds will they win back their freedom. But do Julius and his pals have what it takes to succeed in a world where only the meanest and toughest survive?
84) Sapphire blue
Author
Series
Ruby red trilogy volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 13
Formats
Description
Sixteen-year-old Gwen, the newest and final member of the secret time-traveling Circle of Twelve, searches through history for the other time-travelers, aided by friend Lesley, James the ghost, Xemerius the gargoyle demon, and Gideon, the Diamond, whose fate seems bound with hers.
87) Cleopatra
Author
Pub. Date
[2007]
Description
"Discover the world of Cleopatra through the diary of her handmaid Nefret"--Cover.
88) Sylvia and Aki
Author
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 4
Description
At the start of World War II, Japanese-American third-grader Aki and her family are sent to an internment camp in Poston, Arizona, while Mexican-American third-grader Sylvia's family leases their Orange County, California, farm and begins a fight to stop school segregation.
92) Mexico, 1850
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2005]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 7
Description
Jack, Ben, and Emily travel to Mexico, the seat of the vampire god Camazotz's power, on a desperate quest to locate the last remaining piece of an amulet that, if found by Camazotz, will give the vampire untold strength and power.
95) Uh-oh, Leonardo
Author
Pub. Date
[2003]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Providence the mouse travels through time to sixteenth-century Florence, Italy, where she shares an adventure with Leonardo da Vince, the inventor she admires so much.
Author
Series
Harwood mysteries volume 1
Pub. Date
c2020.
Description
Embark on an adventure with young Alexander as he tries to recover his memory and, with his new friends, uncover the mystery of the shadowy figure in the dark.
97) The dungeon
Author
Pub. Date
[2002]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 7
Description
Driven by his grief over the loss of his family and by his longing for adventure, Bruce MacLennan sets out from Scotland for China, where he buys a young girl, who tries to ease his pain but instead is caught up in his desire for vengance.
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
As a child, Valentine saw her mother murder the wealthiest man in their Connecticut town and then hang at the gallows. Neglected by her father, she's learned to fend for herself, living in a crumbling estate that feels haunted by the past. Now a top student at Drake Academy, she's determined to prove herself and overcome her mother's crime. But like all small towns, Feavers Crossing has a stiflingly long memory, and when a new string of murders occurs,...
Author
Pub. Date
2004.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 4
Description
At the end of the nineteenth century in Libya, eleven-year-old Malika simultaneously enjoys and feels constricted by the narrow world of women, but an injured stranger enters her home and disrupts the traditional order of things.
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 10
Description
After the colony of James Town is founded in 1607. After Captain John Smith establishes trade with the Native Americans. After Pocahontas befriends the colonists. After early settlers both thrive and die in this new world . . . a girl is born. Virginia.