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1) Ten
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Ten teens head to a house party at a remote island mansion off the Washington coast . . . only for them to picked off by a killer one by one"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Formats
Description
Jane has lived an ordinary life, raised by her aunt Magnolia--an adjunct professor and deep sea photographer. Jane counted on Magnolia to make the world feel expansive and to turn life into an adventure. But Aunt Magnolia was lost a few months ago in Antarctica on one of her expeditions. Now, with no direction, a year out of high school, and obsessed with making umbrellas that look like her own dreams (but mostly just mourning her aunt), she is easily...
Author
Publisher
Dial Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA), Inc
Pub. Date
c2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Violet is in love with River, a mysterious seventeen-year-old stranger renting the guest house behind the rotting seaside mansion where Violet lives, but when eerie, grim events begin to happen, Violet recalls her grandmother's frequent warnings about the devil and wonders if River is evil.
Author
Publisher
Soho Teen
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Xochi is on her own in San Francisco, running from a painful past. She accepts a position as governess to Pallas, a precocious twelve-year-old with a rockstar family that lives in one of the city's storybook Victorian mansions. On the night of the Vernal Equinox, as a concert afterparty rages in the house below, Xochi and Pallas perform a pagan ritual that unintentionally summons a pair of ancient creatures devoted to righting the wrongs of Xochi's...
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Daffodil Franklin has plans for a quiet summer before her freshman year at college, and luckily, she's found the job that can give her just that: housesitting a mansion for a wealthy couple. But as the summer progresses and shadows lengthen, Daffodil comes to realize the house is more than it appears. The spacious home seems to close in on her, and as she takes the long road into town, she feels eyes on her the entire way, and something tugging her...
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Six teenagers' lives intertwine during a summer of romantic misunderstandings and dangerous deals in this retelling of Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing, set in the era of Prohibition in the 1920s"--
After she gets kicked out of boarding school, Beatrice goes to her uncle's estate on Long Island. It's a rundown old mansion, where Beatrice's cousin, Hero, runs a struggling speakeasy out of the basement. As Beatrice and Hero throw all their efforts...
Author
Publisher
Harlequin Teen
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Lucy Acosta's mother died when she was three. Growing up in a Victorian mansion in the middle of the woods with her cold, distant father, she explored the dark hallways of the estate with her cousin, Margaret. They're inseparablea family. When her aunt Penelope, the only mother she's ever known, tragically disappears while walking in the woods surrounding their estate, Lucy finds herself devastated and alone. Margaret has been spending a lot of time...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Seventeen-year-old Stephanie Armand doesn't believe in ghosts or spirits. Despite her six-year-old sister insisting a masked figure is hiding in her closet, and the rumors at school, Stephanie isn't convinced her father's latest renovation project--a crumbling Victorian mansion--houses the soul of a monster. So when the very charming (and paranormal-obsessed) Lucas Cheney takes an interest in both Stephanie and her notorious home, Moldavia, the supernatural...
Author
Series
Kyoshi novels volume 1
Publisher
Amulet books
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
The discovery of Yun, a young Avatar, brought stability to the four nations until Earth Kingdom-born Kyoshi, Yun's friend and servant, demonstrated remarkable bending during a mission to the South Pole. When growing unrest among her allies turned to violence, Kyoshi was forced to flee the Avatar mansion with her fiery friend Rangi, taking little more than the metal war fans and headdress her parents left behind. Finding unlikely supporters in the...
11) The marvelous
Author
Publisher
A Swoon Reads Book, an imprint of Macmillan Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Everyone thinks they know Jewel Van Hanen. Heiress turned actress turned social media darling who created the massively popular video-sharing app, Golden Rule. After mysteriously disappearing for a year, Jewel makes her dramatic return with an announcement: she has chosen a few lucky Golden Rule users to spend an unforgettable weekend at her private estate. But once they arrive, Jewel ingeniously flips the script: the guests are now players in an...
Author
Publisher
Inkyard Press
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
"Edward Dinnissen leads a charmed life. He's the Crown Prince of Canada, gets the royal treatment at his exclusive private school, and resides in a ritzy mansion. He thrives off being the perfect prince as he prepares for the Investiture Ceremony on his eighteenth birthday, the final step in his role as heir -- and Canada's future king. But this closeted Crown Prince has just one tiny problem: he's unsure how to tell his parents, his beloved country,...
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Christopher Dollanganger was fourteen when he and his younger siblings{u2014}Cathy and the twins, Cory and Carrie{u2014}were locked away in the attic of Foxworth Hall, prisoners of their mother{u2019}s greedy inheritance scheme. For three long years he kept hope alive for the sake of the others. But the shocking truth about how their ordeal affected him was always kept hidden{u2014}until now. Seventeen-year-old Kristin Masterwood is thrilled when...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
To claim her inheritance, Helen Vaughan must spend one year in her ancestral home, Harrowstone Hall, and with her life and sanity at stake, she must unravel Harrowstone's secrets, an endeavor that forces her to question everything she knows about her family and herself.
Helen Vaughan doesn't know why she and her mother left their ancestral home at Harrowstone Hall, called Harrow, or why they haven't spoken to their extended family since. So when...
15) Cast no shadow
Author
Publisher
First Second Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Greg has lived in Lancaster his whole life. The town's always had its quirks, and being born without a shadow means he's counted among them. When Greg discovers an old mansion in the woods just outside of town, he didn't expect to meet a smart, beautiful, funny, and...very dead teenaged girl named Eleanor. Yeah. He's in love with a ghost. And before he knows what's happening, Greg finds himself at the wrong end of a history lesson when the town's...
Author
Series
Remixed classics volume 5
Publisher
Feiwel & Friends
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
"Three teens chase their own version of the American Dream during the Roaring 20s in this YA remix of The Great Gatsby"--
New York City, 1922. Nicolás Caraveo, a 17-year-old transgender boy from Minnesota, has no interest in the city's glamor. Going to New York is all about establishing himself as a young professional, which could set up his future -- and his life as a man -- and benefit his family. Nick rents a small house in West Egg from his...
17) Wraithwood
Author
Series
Wraithwood trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Mountain Brook Ink
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
An estranged uncle, a mysterious mansion, and Arthurian legend-together they lead to a world of magic and bloodthirsty wizards who want teenage Brinnie dead. Brynna "Brinnie" Lane has always lived a quiet life under the watchful eye of her hovering mother-until she's sent off for the summer to live with an uncle she didn't know she had. While her parents get to travel across the globe, she'll be spending three months in the middle of nowhere: upstate...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Focus
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
""You are to report to Station X at Bletchley Park, Buckinghamshire, in four days time....That is all you need to know." This was the terse telegram hundreds of young women throughout the British Isles received in the spring of 1941, as World War II raged. As they arrived at Station X, a sprawling mansion in a state of disrepair surrounded by Spartan-looking huts with little chimneys coughing out thick smoke-these young people had no idea what kind...
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