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Author
Series
Time-traveling fashionista volume 2
Publisher
Poppy
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
1090L
Language
English
Description
While seeking the perfect dress for her friend's birthday party, twelve-year-old Louise Lambert dons a vintage gown and finds herself with a young Marie Antoinette in eighteenth-century France where, between cute commoner boys and glamorous trips to Paris, she finds that life in the palace is not all cake and couture.
183) Goddess crown
Author
Publisher
Walker Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
In this thrilling Afro-fantasy, the first set in the lush, opulent kingdom of Galla, a girl raised in secret must leave her sheltered rural home for the subtle dangers of the royal court, where she becomes caught up in deadly power struggles and romantic intrigue. Kalothia has grown up in the shadows of her kingdom, hidden away in the forested East after her parents were outed as enemies of the king. Raised in a woodland idyll by a few kindly adult...
184) The Dark Days deceit
Author
Series
Lady Helen novel volume 3
Publisher
Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
December, 1812. Lady Helen has retreated to a country estate outside Bath to prepare for her wedding to the Duke of Selburn, yet she knows she has unfinished business to complete. She and the dangerously charismatic Lord Carlston have learned they are a dyad, bonded in blood, and only they are strong enough to defeat the Grand Deceiver, who threatens to throw mankind into chaos. But the heinous death-soaked Ligatus Helen has absorbed is tearing a...
185) By any other name
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"London, 1593. Sixteen-year-old Will Hughes is busy working on Shakespeare's stage, stuffing his corsets with straw and pretending to be someone else. Offstage, he's playing a part, too. The son of traitors, Will is desperate to keep his identity secret--or risk being killed in the bloody queen's imperial schemes. All he wants is to lay low until he earns enough coin to return to his family. But when his mentor, the famous playwright Christopher Marlowe,...
Author
Series
French medieval mystery volume 3
Publisher
Severn House Publishers
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Paris, 1396. Scribe Christine de Pizan is shocked when the Duke of Orléans' fools find a baby, wrapped in rags and covered in sores, abandoned in the palace gardens. Was there really a wicked plan to substitute the child for the queen's own baby daughter and blame the Duchess of Orléans, Valentina Visconti? Who would commit such an evil act, and why? Accused of being a sorceress, Valentina is the victim of much slander and has powerful enemies...
Author
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
[1991]
Language
English
Description
Two rascally weavers convince the emperor they are making him beautiful new clothes, visible only to those fit for their posts, but during a royal procession in which he first wears them, a child whispers that the emperor has nothing on.
188) In feast or famine
Author
Series
Egyptian chronicles volume 2
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"After four-year-old Asenath's mother is murdered by Egypt's foreign rulers, the child is raised to be a priestess by her overprotective father -- high priest of Egypt's sun god. For fifteen years, Asenath is sequestered in the upper levels of Ra's temple, convinced it is her destiny to heal the land by becoming queen to the next Egyptian pharaoh. But when Egypt's foreign king instead gives her as a bride to the newly appointed vizier -- a Hebrew...
190) Barbarities
Author
Publisher
Seven Seas
Pub. Date
2023-
Language
English
Description
"When Lord Montague's life is threatened, Viscount Adam Canning is assigned to be his bodyguard. Adam is a blond, dashing nobleman who is able to woo anyone who catches his eye. When he sees Lord Montague's nephew Joel, Adam is immediately smitten. But Joel is too busy rooting out crime and corruption to fall for Adam's charms. Of course, that just makes Adam want him even more! Can Joel stay focused, or will be fall for the devilishly handsome viscount?"--Page...
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
In 1661 France, seventeen-year-old Henriette of England must navigate her arranged marriage to Louis XIV's brother while keeping her magical abilities a careful secret from all at the Sun King's court. Includes historical note.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
As the fourth daughter of the perpetually in-mourning Queen Victoria, Princess Louise's life is more a gilded prison than a fairy tale. Expected to sit quietly next to her mother with down-cast eyes, Louise vows to escape the stultifying royal court. Blessed with beauty, artistic talent, and a common touch, she creates a life outside the walled-in existence of the palace grounds by attending the National Art Training School--where she shockingly learns...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Lexile measure
930L
Language
English
Description
Her father, Baron of Stone, announced his twelve-year-old daughter Eliza Rose Camperdowne would soon wed the son of the Earl of Westmoreland, in hope to revive the distressed family fortune through her marriage.
Headstrong Elizabeth Rose Camperdowne is the sole heiress to an old but impoverished noble family, and must marry a man of wealth and title. When a turn of events lands her in the royal court as a maid of honor to Anne of Cleves, Eliza is...
Author
Series
Circle reforged volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2005.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 21
Lexile measure
840L
Language
English
Description
On visit to Namorn to visit her vast landholdings and her devious cousin, Empress Berenene, eighteen-year-old Sandry must rely on her childhood friends and fellow mages, Daja, Tris, and Briar, despite the distance that has grown between them.
Reunites Sandrilene fa Toren and her friends Daja, Tris, and Briar from the Circle of magic books. On a visit to Namorn to visit her vast landholdings and her devious cousin, Empress Berenene, eighteen-year-old...
Author
Series
Dune chronicles volume 1
Publisher
Abrams ComicArts
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Dune, Frank Herbert's epic science-fiction masterpiece set in the far future amidst a sprawling feudal interstellar society, tells the story of Paul Atreides as he and his family accept control of the desert planet Arrakis. A stunning blend of adventure and mysticism, environmentalism, and politics, Dune is a powerful, fantastical tale that takes an unprecedented look into our universe, and is transformed by the graphic novel format. In the first...
Author
Publisher
BOOM! Studios
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"After his father's untimely death, young Leto ascends to Duke of House Atreides while Duncan Idaho starts down the path to become one of Leto's right-hand men. Meanwhile, Baron Harkonnen wastes no time moving against the new Duke by stoking the centuries-long feud between the Harkonnens and Atreides. A new dawn rises when Crown Prince Shaddam successfully ousts his father from the throne of the Imperium.And Pardot Kynes, now considered a prophet...
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