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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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Description
A young disabled girl and her brother are evacuated from London to the English countryside during World War II, where they find life to be much sweeter away from their abusive mother.
2) Hollow city
Author
Series
Miss Peregrine volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
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Description
"Having escaped Miss Peregrine's island by the skin of their teeth, Jacob and his new friends, who possess supernatural abilities, must journey to London (circa 1940), the 'peculiar' capital of the world. There they hope to find a cure for their beloved headmistress, Miss Peregrine. But in this war-torn city, hideous surprises lurk around every corner"--
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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Description
In World War II England, orphaned siblings William, Edmund, and Anna are evacuated from London to live in the countryside, where they bounce from home to home in search of someone willing to adopt them permanently.--
Author
Series
Finishing school volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
In her alternate England of 1851, fifteen-year-old Sophronia tries to uncover who is behind a plot to control a prototype that has the potential to alter human and supernatural travel, and to learn what role Mademoiselle Geraldine's academy for young spies plays in the affair.
Author
Series
Finishing school volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
In an alternate England of 1851, spirited fourteen-year-old Sophronia is enrolled in a finishing school where, she is suprised to learn, lessons include not only the fine arts of dance, dress, and etiquette, but also diversion, deceit, and espionage.
7) Hollow chest
Author
Publisher
Walden Pond Press, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
When his brother Theo returns home from World War II cold and distant, Charlie soon discovers that Theo's heart has been consumed by a war wolf, which lives off of grief, and must get Theo's heart back before it's too late.
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
In 1940 England, stuck in a train tunnel while German fighter jets fly overhead, Barney hears an unlikely story of a highly decorated World War I soldier who once had a chance to kill young Adolf Hitler.
Author
Series
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
The lives of two sets of best friends, Kate and Ruby in England and Erik and Hans in Germany, as well as a stray dog in London are brought together in unexpected ways during World War II.
Author
Publisher
Chicken House/Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
In 1941, having a German plane crash near your house is exciting, but when twelve-year-old Peter Dixon and his friend Kim find a wounded German airman, Peter is faced with a dilemma--should he help take care of the man as Kim wants to do, or report him to the soldiers searching for him?
Author
Series
Publisher
Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
After helping prepare their London home for German bombing raids, young Hettie and her brothers are sent to safety in the countryside, where she strives to keep them connected to each other and their parents.
Author
Publisher
Dial Books
Pub. Date
2012, C2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
Before the start of World War II, ten-year-old Ziska Mangold, who has Jewish ancestors but has been raised as a Protestant, is taken out of Nazi Germany on one of the Kindertransport trains, to live in London with a Jewish family, where she learns about Judaism and endures the hardships of war while attempting to keep in touch with her parents, who are trying to survive in Holland.
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2023]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
"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 over London, Eric realizes Gertrude is in terrible danger, and together with his Uncle Sid, a keeper at the zoo, the three go on the run. But while hiding out at the seaside, they uncover a top-secret Nazi plot..."--Page [2] of cover....