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Maze of Bones
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Rick Riordan
Minutes before she died Grace Cahill changed her will, leaving her decendants an impossible decision: "You have a choice - one million dollars or a clue." Grace is the last matriarch of the Cahills, the world's most powerful family. Everyone from Napoleon to Houdini is related to the Cahills, yet the source of the family power is lost. 39 clues ...
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Snow Treasure
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Marie McSwigan
A true story of how a group of Norwegian children fool the German guards by taking their country's gold out right under their noses.
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Lieutenant Hornblower
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C S Forester
The nineteenth century dawns and the Napoleonic Wars rage as Horatio Hornblower faces the fury of the French and Spanish fleets combined. Amidst the hissing of wet wads, the stifling heat of white-hot cannonshot and the clamour of a mutinous crew, new Lieutenant Hornblower will need all of his seafaring cunning to overcome his first challenge in ...
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One False Note
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Gordon Korman
THIS JUST IN! Amy and Dan Cahill were spotted on a train, hot on the trail of one of 39 Clues hidden around the world. BUT WAIT! Police report a break-in at an elite hotel, and the suspects ALSO sound suspiciously like Amy and Dan. UPDATE! Amy and Dan have been seen in a car . . . no, in a speedboat chase . . . and HOLD EVERYTHING! They're being ...
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Little Lord Fauntleroy
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Frances Hodgson Burnett
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The Trumpeter of Krakow
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Eric Philbrook Kelly
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Mary, Bloody Mary
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Carolyn Meyer
Meyer crafts a gripping rags-to-riches account of the tumultuous childhood of Mary Tudor, the eldest daughter of King Henry VIII, whose life turns from riches to rags after Henry divorces her mother, Catherine of Aragon.
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Blood Red Horse
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K M Grant
This enchanting new adventure story, set in medieval England, is the tale of two brothers, called by King Richard to fight in the Crusades; the fair maiden they both love; and the small stallion that binds them together.
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Elizabeth I, Red Rose of the House of Tudor
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Kathryn Lasky
In a series of diary entries, Princess Elizabeth, the eleven-year-old daughter of King Henry VIII, celebrates holidays and birthdays, relives her mother's execution, revels in her studies, and agonizes over her father's health.
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Countess Below Stairs
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Eva Ibbotson
It is 1919, the Russian Countess Anna Grazinsky is penniless in London and has to take a job as a housemaid in the beautiful home of the aristocratic Westerholme family. She then finds herself fighting her attraction for the new Earl of Westerholme, who has arrived home with his fiancee.
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A Song for Summer
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Eva Ibbotson
When Ellen Carr, daughter of a militant suffragette and raised to be an intellectual, takes a job in Austria as housemother at the Hallendorf School of Music, Drama and the Dance she simply wants to cook beautiful food. What she finds when she reaches Schloss Hallendorf is an eccentrically magical world occupied by wild children, naked Harmony ...
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Anastasia: The Last Grand Duchess
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Carolyn Meyer
A novel in diary form in which the youngest daughter of Czar Nicholas II describes the privileged life her family led up until the time of World War I and the tragic events that befell them.
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Titanic Crossing
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Barbara Williams
Thirteen-year-old Albert Trask is thrilled to be sailing back home to America with his younger sister. He can't wait to see his friends again, play baseball, and enjoy life in the United States. Unfortunately, the year is 1912 and the siblings are sailing on the Titanic.
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Secret Journey
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Peg Kehret
SWEPT AWAY... Twelve-year-old Emma Bolton is determined to join her father and her sick mother on their voyage to France. She'll do "anything" to escape Aunt Martha and hateful cousin Odolf! So she disguises herself as a boy and sneaks aboard a vessel she's told is her parents' ship. Too late, Emma discovers that she's a stowaway on "Black ...
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Nory Ryan's Song
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Patricia Reilly Giff
As they struggle to stay alive through the Great Potato Famine in Ireland, the three young Ryan sisters fight to keep their family together. Since their mother passed away many years ago and their father had to go to sea, they must rely on each another to survive.
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Incantation
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Alice Hoffman
Estrella is a Marrano: During the time of the Spanish Inquisition, she is one of a community of Spanish Jews living double lives as Catholics. And she is living in a house of secrets, raised by a family who practices underground the ancient and mysterious way of wisdom known as kabbalah. When Estrella discovers her family's true identity--and her ...
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Asterix in Spain
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Rene Goscinny, Albert Uderzo (Illustrator)
Gaul was divided into three parts. No, four parts - for one small village of indomitable Gauls still held out against the Roman invaders. BOOK 14 When the Romans take Chief Huevos y Bacon's son hostage, they get more than they bargained for. Little Pepe proves a terrible handful. Asterix and Obelix rescue him and set out to return him to his ...
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Asterix in Switzerland
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Rene Goscinny, Albert Uderzo (Illustrator)
Gaul was divided into three parts. No, four parts - for one small village of indomitable Gauls still held out against the Roman invaders. BOOK 16 Quaestor Vexatius Sinusitus turns up in Gaul to investigate the creative accountancy of Governor Varius Flavus. When the quaestor is poisoned, he turns to Getafix the druid and the other Gauls for help.
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Titanic: The Long Night
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Diane Hoh
Everyone thought that the Titanic was unsinkable. Among the passengers are beautiful Elizabeth Farr and dashing Max Whitaker in first class, whilst in steerage are Brian and Patrick Kelleher and pretty red-haired Kathleen Mahoney.
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Isabel: Jewel of Castilla
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Carolyn Meyer
While waiting anxiously for others to choose a husband for her, Isabella, the future Queen of Spain, keeps a diary account of her life as a member of the royal family.
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Little House in the Highlands
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Melissa Wiley
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The Wreckers
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Iain Lawrence
When a ship crashes upon the shore of the Isle of Skye, a 14-year-old survivor must continue to fight for his life against the wreckers--a coastal community of murderous people who pillage shipwrecked vessels to feed and cloth themselves and decorate their homes. An ALA Best Book for Young Adults and a "School Library Journal" Best Book of the ...
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Morning Gift
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Eva Ibbotson
A picture of 1930s emigre life, by the author of "A Glove Shop in Vienna" and "Madensky Square". Ruth enjoys an untroubled childhood in Vienna, until Hitler intervenes. Her previously harmless political antics mark her as a troublemaker, and a young British professor helps her to escape to Britain.
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Children of the New Forest
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Frederick Marryat
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Hawk That Dare Not Hunt by Day
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Scott O'Dell
A fictional account of how Tyndale's English translation of the Bible was published and smuggled into England.
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