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1) One girl
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Summary
Inspired by the idea of empowering girls around the world to demand their right to education, one girl lights a small spark which catches fire and eventually lights up the whole world.
Author
Series
Forbidden Library volume 1
Lexile Measure
920L
Summary
When her father is lost at sea shortly after meeting a very unusual visitor, Alice must leave her home to live with an "uncle" whose rural Pennsylvania estate includes a massive and mysterious library that holds much more than books.
Author
Series
Mr. Lemoncello's library volume 3
Lexile Measure
750L
Summary
"Mr. Lemoncello holds a contest for his young friends where they must race to bring interesting facts back to his library"--
Author
Series
Story thieves volume 2
Lexile Measure
700L
Summary
Mysteries abound as memory-erased Owen Conners, boy magician Kiel Gnomenfoot, and their half-fictional friend Bethany confront secrets, stolen memories, hidden clues, surprising twists and endings, and some very familiar faces.
14) Words on fire
Author
Lexile Measure
820L
Summary
In 1893 twelve-year-old Audra lives on a farm in Lithuania, and tries to avoid the Cossack soldiers who enforce the Russian decrees that ban Lithuanian books, religion, culture, and even the language; but when the soldiers invade the farm Audra is the only one who escapes and, unsure of what has happened to her parents, she embarks on a dangerous journey, carrying the smuggled Lithuanian books that fuel the growing resistance movement, unsure of who...
16) The reader
Author
Series
Lexile Measure
810L
Summary
"Set in a world where reading is unheard-of, Sefia makes use of a mysterious object to track down who kidnapped her aunt Nin and what really happened the night her father was murdered"--
After her father is brutally murdered, Sefia flees into the wilderness with her aunt Nin, who teaches her to hunt, track, and steal. But when Nin is kidnapped none of her survival skills can help her discover where Nin's been taken, or if she's even alive. The only...
17) Don't blink!
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Summary
"A page turns every time you blink, bringing you closer to the end of the book--and bedtime"--
18) Eyes like stars
Author
Summary
Thirteen-year-old Bertie strives to save Theater Illuminata, the only home she has ever known, but is hindered by the Players who magically live on there, especially Ariel, who is willing to destroy the Book at the center of the magic in order to escape into the outside world.
19) Finding Langston
Author
Series
Finding Langston trilogy volume 1
Lexile Measure
760L
Summary
Discovering a book of Langston Hughes' poetry in the library helps Langston cope with the loss of his mother, relocating from Alabama to Chicago as part of the Great Migration, and being bullied.
Author
Series
Books of beginning volume 1
Lexile Measure
720L
Summary
Kate, Michael, and Emma have passed from one orphanage to another in the ten years since their parents disappeared to protect them, but now they learn that they have special powers, a prophesied quest to find a magical book, and a fearsome enemy.