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Author
Series
Summerhouse volume 2
Language
English
Description
Magic most definitely resides in the Maine summerhouse where the mysterious Madame Zoya has granted the innermost wishes of its visitors. Now, three women have come to this special place with one thing in common: a painful past they would each like to rewrite. Amy, who hides a heartbreaking loss behind her seemingly perfect marriage and family, Faith, a widow in her thirties whose deepest grief is for a man from years ago, and Zoe, an artist shunned...
Author
Series
Outlander volume 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
Jamie Fraser knows from his time-traveling wife Claire that, no matter how unlikely it seems, America will win the Revolutionary War. But fighting for the eventual winner is no guarantee of safety. And worse still, the possibility of pointing a weapon at his own son, a young officer in the British army, haunts Jamie's every thought. In the relative safety of the 20th century, their daughter, Brianna, and her husband experience the unfolding drama...
Author
Series
Magic tree house volume 19
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
1999.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
510L
Language
English
Description
Having used their magic tree house to travel to India, where they must get a gift to help free the dog Teddy from a spell, Jack and Annie have adventures involving a tiger and other endangered jungle animals.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Ned Henry is badly in need of a rest. He's been shuttling between the 21st century and the 1940s searching for a Victorian atrocity called the bishop's bird stump. It's part of a project to restore the famed Coventry Cathedral, destroyed in a Nazi air raid over a hundred years earlier. But then Verity Kindle, a fellow time traveler, inadvertently brings back something from the past. Now Ned must jump back to the Victorian era to help Verity put things...
Author
Publisher
Harlequin Books
Pub. Date
[1993]
Language
English
Description
Andrew McVie crashes a hot-air balloon into Shannon Whitney's backyard; they fall in love and live happily ever after. Not exactly. Andrew caught his balloon ride in 1776, and when he crashes, it's 1993. Shannon is wary of his strange behavior since her ex-husband was physically abusive. And Shannon's friend Dakota, a psychic librarian with a penchant for eating raspberry doughnuts and reading auras, warns her friend that there is something weird...
26) Angel time
Author
Series
Songs of the seraphim volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
Contract killer Toby O'Dare accepts a seraph's offer to leave his violent existence in order to save lives, and finds himself transported to thirteenth-century England and challenged to defend falsely accused Jewish citizens.
Author
Series
Captain Underpants volume 9
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
850L
Language
English
Description
Having changed the course of human history after unwittingly wondering what could be worse than going to prison, George and Harold are shot through time back to kindergarten, where they are subjected to bullying and a clueless school principal.
28) Lightning
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 24
Lexile measure
1090L
Language
English
Description
Aided through crises by the almost miraculous intervention of a stranger, Laura Shane learns the nature of her awesome destiny when, on her thirtieth birthday, the stranger finally requests her help.
Author
Series
Magic tree house volume 16
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[1998]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
380L
Language
English
Description
Their magic tree house takes Jack and Annie back to retrieve a lost story in ancient Greece, where they witness the original Olympic games and are surprised to find what girls of the time were not allowed to do.
Author
Series
Outlander volume 6
Language
English
Description
In 1772, the rift between Britain and its American colonies has put a frightening word into the minds of all concerned: revolution. Violence has already reared its ugly head in rural North Carolina, as cabins have been burned to the ground. To preserve the colony for King George III, the governor pleads with Jamie to bring the people together and restore peace. But Jamie has the privelege, although some might call it a burden, of knowing that war...
31) Abaddon's Gate
Author
Series
Expanse volume 3
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
For generations, the solar system -- Mars, the Moon, the Asteroid Belt -- was humanity's great frontier. Until now. The alien artifact working through its program under the clouds of Venus has appeared in Uranus's orbit, where it has built a massive gate that leads to a starless dark. Jim Holden and the crew of the Rocinante are part of a vast flotilla of scientific and military ships going out to examine the artifact. But behind the scenes, a complex...
Author
Series
Magic tree house volume 7
Pub. Date
1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
520L
Language
English
Description
The magic tree house transports Jack and Annie on a mission to the Ice Age where they encounter Cro-Magnons, cave bears, sabertooth tigers, and woolly mammoths.
33) Doomsday book
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 32
Language
English
Description
Journeying back in time to the year 1320, twenty-first century Oxford woman Kivrin arrives in the past during the outbreak of a deadly epidemic.
Author
Series
Magic tree house volume 24
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2001]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
590L
Language
English
Description
The magic tree house takes Jack and Annie to San Francisco in 1906, in time for them to experience one of the biggest earthquakes the United States had ever known.
Author
Series
Magic tree house volume 9
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
540L
Language
English
Description
Their magic tree house takes Jack and Annie deep into the sea, where they meet up with dolphins, sharks, and octopi as they search for the answer to an ancient riddle. Morgan le Fay will make Jack and Annie masters of the tree house if only they can solve four riddles -- which will take four books, of course! Dolphins at Daybreak begins the third set of four books in this magical (and increasingly popular) series! Jack and Annie are off in the Magic...
36) The book of life
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"After traveling through time in Shadow of Night, the second book in Deborah Harkness's enchanting series, historian and witch Diana Bishop and vampire scientist Matthew Clairmont return to the present to face new crises and old enemies. At Matthew's ancestral home at Sept-Tours, they reunite with the cast of characters from A Discovery of Witches--with one significant exception. But the real threat to their future has yet to be revealed, and when...
37) Labyrinth
Author
Series
Languedoc Trilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 29
Language
English
Description
Alice, a volunteer at an archaeological dig, becomes a target after discovering a pair of crumbling skeletons in the Pyrenees mountains, while eight hundred years in the past, Alais, the daughter of a crusader, must safeguard the location of the Holy Grail.
In this extraordinary thriller, rich in the atmospheres of medieval and contemporary France, the lives of two women born centuries apart are linked by a common destiny. July 2005. In the Pyrenees...
38) Of love and evil
Author
Series
Songs of the seraphim volume 2
Language
English
Description
In fifteenth century Rome, Toby O'Dare, a recently retired government assassin, receives a visit from the angel Malchiah. The heavenly figure instructs O'Dare to solve a grisly murder. But during the investigation, O'Dare discovers that the city is being haunted by an ancient demon and that solving the murder may have disastrous consequences for all of Rome.
40) Drums of autumn
Author
Series
Outlander volume 4
Language
English
Description
Cast ashore in the American colonies, the Frasers are faced with a bleak choice, return to a Scotland fallen in famine and poverty, or seize the risky chance of a new life in the new world---menaced by the certain knowledge of the coming revolution.