Lissa Evans
1) Old baggage
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English
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"1928. Riffling through a cupboard, Matilda Simpkin comes across a small wooden club--an old possession that she hasn't seen for more than a decade. Immediately, memories come flooding back to Mattie--memories of a thrilling past, which only further serve to remind her of her chafingly uneventful present. During the Women's Suffrage Campaign, she was a militant who was jailed five times and never missed an opportunity to return to the fray. Now in...
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English
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"When Noel Bostock--aged ten, no family--is evacuated from London to escape the Nazi bombardment, he lands in a suburb northwest of the city with Vera Sedge a thirty-six-year-old widow drowning in debts and dependents. Always desperate for money, she's unscrupulous about how she gets it. Noel's mourning his godmother, Mattie, a former suffragette. Wise beyond his years and raised with a disdain for authority and an eclectic attitude toward education,...
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English
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"It is 1940. France has fallen, and only a narrow strip of sea lies between Great Britain and invasion. The war could go either way and everyone must do their bit. Copywriter Catrin Cole is drafted into the Ministry of Information to help write women into propaganda films--something that the men aren't very good at"--Page [4] of cover.
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English
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It's late 1944. In a large house next to Hampstead Heath, Vee Sedge is barely scraping by with a herd of lodgers to feed and her young charge Noel, almost fifteen now, to clothe and educate. When she witnesses an accident and finds herself in court, the repercussions are both unexpectedly marvelous and potentially disastrous. Because Vee is not actually the person she's pretending to be, and neither is Noel.
5) Wed wabbit
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Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Publisher Annotation: Your name is Fidge and you're nearly eleven. You've been hurled into a strange world. You have three companions: two are unbelievably weird and the third is your awful cousin, Graham. You have to solve a series of nearly impossible clues. You need to deal with a cruel stuffed animal dictator and three thousand Wimbley Woos (yes, you read that sentence correctly). And the whole situation -- the whole, entire thing -- is your...
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Publisher
Sterling Children's Books
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Moving away from everything familiar to live in a new house, ten-year-old Stuart Horten reluctantly befriends the annoying triplets next door and is swept up in a magical quest to find his great-uncle Tony, a famous magician who disappeared along with his fantastical workshop.
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Publisher
Sterling Children's Books
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Ten-year-old Stuart, having become the junior curator of the museum exhibition showcasing his great-uncle Tony's long-lost magic, enters the magical world of the workshop once more to find Tony's will and is faced with a series of puzzles that become harder and harder to solve.
8) Their finest
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
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During the bombing of London in 1940, a brave film crew makes a movie to boost the country's morale and inspire America to join the war.