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Author
Series
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Describes the life of Victoria, Queen of Great Britain from 1837 to 1901, and the social and political conditions in Great Britain during her lifetime.
65) Mastiff
Author
Series
Beka Cooper volume 3
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 28
Language
English
Description
Beka, having just lost her fiance in a slaver's raid, is able to distract herself by going with her team on an important hunt at the queen's request, unaware that the throne of Tortall depends on their success.
66) Whale rider
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
As her beloved grandfather, chief of the Maori tribe of Whangara, New Zealand, struggles to lead in difficult times and to find a male successor, young Kahu is developing a mysterious relationship with whales, particularly the ancient bull whale whose legendary rider was their ancestor.
67) The runaway king
Author
Series
Ascendance novels volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
Young King Jaron has taken the throne of Carthya, but after enemies attempt to assassinate him, and a neighboring kingdom threatens invasion, he finds that he has no friends in the palace, not even his bride-to-be, princess Amarinda--and his regents think it would be better for Carthya if he just disappeared again.
70) Peter the Great
Author
Publisher
Morrow Junior Books
Pub. Date
1999
Language
English
Description
A biography of the tsar who began the transformation of Russia into a modern state in the late seventeenth-early eighteenth centuries.
Series
Publisher
KaBoom!, a division of Boom Entertainment, Inc
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Finding himself on the wrong side of mischief when his faithful sidekick, Gunther the penguin, is kidnapped, Ice King gets help from wacky sources, tries to be cool, and learns something unexpected about himself along the way.
Author
Series
Princess Academy trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Miri's eager to return to her beloved Mount Eskel after a year at the capital, but the king and queen ask her to first journey to a distant swamp and start her own miniature princess academy for three royal cousins, but once there she must solve a mystery before she can return home.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
In 1542, nine-year-old Lady Elizabeth lives on an estate near London, striving to get back into the good graces of her father, King Henry VIII, and as the years pass she faces his death and those of other close relatives until she finds herself next in line to ascend the throne of England in 1558.
Author
Series
Young royals volume 1
Publisher
Harcourt Brace
Pub. Date
1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Mary Tudor, who would reign briefly as Queen of England during the mid sixteenth century, tells the story of her troubled childhood as daughter of King Henry VIII.
Author
Publisher
Graphix
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Scatterbrained Cornelius, King of Kazoo, and his resourceful daughter, Bing, explore a mysterious cave at the top of Mount Kazoo. There they discover a famous alchemist named Quaf is planning a dangerous and forbidden experiment. Now Cornelius, Bing, and the brilliant royal inventor Torq must go all out to stop Quaf before his crazy undertaking threatens the entire kingdom.
Author
Publisher
Blue Apple Books
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Recounts the history of how the sphinx of Pharaoh Hatshepsut came to be part of the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Egyptian collection, from the artifact's carving in ancient Egypt to its arrival in the hallowed halls of the world-famous museum in New York City.
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
A very small mouse of unknown origins runs away from school in the Royal Mews of Buckingham Palace shortly before the celebration of Queen Victoria's diamond jubilee, celebrating her sixty years on the British throne.
Author
Publisher
Cricket Books
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
Tutmose, an apprentice sculptor, and his nearly-blind brother, Ibrim, an apprentice musician, are content at the court of Pharoah Akhenaten, but their father rages against Pharoah's rejection of traditional Egyptian gods and plots a deadly revenge.
79) Sitting Bull
Author
Series
Publisher
Lerner Publications Co
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Introduces the life of Lakota Sioux warrior and holy man Sitting Bull, who led his people to victory at Little Bighorn and brought them to safety in Canada before surrendering so that they would not starve.
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