Jennifer Donnelly
2) Revolution
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
HL 560L
Physical Desc
471 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
An angry, grieving seventeen-year-old musician facing expulsion from her prestigious Brooklyn private school travels to Paris to complete a school assignment and uncovers a diary written during the French revolution by a young actress attempting to help a tortured, imprisoned little boy--Louis Charles, the lost king of France.
3) Stepsister
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
HL 640L
Physical Desc
342 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Isabelle should be blissfully happy - she's about to win the handsome prince. Except Isabelle isn't the beautiful girl who lost the glass slipper and captured the prince's heart. She's the ugly stepsister who's cut off her toes to fit into Cinderella's shoe . . . which is now filling with her blood. When the prince discovers Isabelle's deception, she's turned away in shame. It's no more than she deserves: she's a plain girl in a world that values...
4) Deep blue
Author
Series
Waterfire saga volume 1
Publisher
Disney-Hyperion
Lexile measure
HL 580L
Language
English
Description
Uncovering an ancient evil, Serafina, a mermaid of the Mediterranean Sea, searches for five other mermaid heroines who are scattered across the six seas, to save their hidden world.
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2015].
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
HL 630L
Physical Desc
487 pages : map ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Jo Montfort is beautiful and rich, and soon--like all the girls in her class--she'll graduate from finishing school and be married off to a wealthy bachelor. Which is the last thing she wants. Jo secretly dreams of becoming a writer--a newspaper reporter like the trailblazing Nellie Bly. Wild aspirations aside, Jo's life seems perfect until tragedy strikes: her father is found dead. Charles Montfort accidentally shot himself while cleaning his revolver....
6) Sea spell
Author
Series
Waterfire saga volume 4
Publisher
Disney-Hyperion
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
630L
Physical Desc
357 pages : maps ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Astrid must confront her ancestor, Orfeo, the evil force behind the rise of the monster Abbadon, while Sera and her Black Fins train goblin troops for battle against her uncle Vallerio's death riders" --
7) Poisoned
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
600L
Physical Desc
307 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In this adaptation of the fairy tale Snow White, the huntsman follows the queen's order to kill Sophie, but the princess is brought back to life by the seven men of the woods, who, along with other brave friends, help Sophie overcome the story's true villain and reclaim her throne.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
321 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
When handsome thief Beau enters the castle that appeared out of nowhere, he finds himself trapped in Arabella's curse, which can only be broken if she finds a boy who loves her for her true self--a seeming impossibility for a girl who has been told she is impossible to love.
10) Rogue wave
Author
Series
Waterfire saga volume 2
Publisher
Disney-Hyperion
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
313 pages : maps ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
As Serafina uncovers more clues about the talismans, Neela ventures into a sea dragon's nest, and Ling learns the identity of their foe.
11) Dark tide
Author
Series
Waterfire saga volume 3
Publisher
Disney-Hyperion
Pub. Date
2015 ;
Lexile measure
HL 650L
Physical Desc
392 pages : maps ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Astrid struggles with a shameful secret, Ling discovers courage in a prison camp, and Serafina lines up allies to help fight the final battle for her underwater realm"--
12) The tea rose
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
First St. Martin's Griffin ed.
Physical Desc
557 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
East London, 1888 - a city apart. A place of shadow and light where thieves, whores, and dreamers mingle, where children play in the cobbled streets by day and a killer stalks at night, where bright hopes meet the darkest truths. Here, by the whispering waters of the Thames, Fiona Finnegan, a worker in a tea factory, hopes to own a shop one day, together with her lifelong love, Joe Bristow, a costermonger's son. With nothing but their faith in each...
13) Lost in a book
Author
Publisher
Disney Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First hardcover edition.
Lexile measure
610L
Physical Desc
341 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Smart, bookish Belle, a captive in the Beast's castle, has become accustomed to her new home and has befriended its inhabitants. When she comes upon Nevermore, an enchanted book unlike anything else she has seen in the castle, Belle finds herself pulled into its pages and transported to a world of glamour and intrigue. The adventures Belle has always imagined, the dreams she was forced to give up when she became a prisoner, seem within reach again....
14) Humble pie
Author
Pub. Date
2002
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 32 cm
Language
English
Description
A naughty boy gets his just "desserts."
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
The legendary enchantment of Rip Van Winkle in the Kaatskill Mountains; the gruesome end of Ichabod Crane, who met the Headless Horseman of Sleepy Hollow; the Spectre Bridegroom who turned out to be happily substantial; the pride of an English village and the come-uppance of the over-zealous Mountjoy - these witty, perceptive and captivating tales range from fantasy to romance.
Author
Publisher
Schwartz & Wade Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
HL 750L
Physical Desc
xi, 396 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Seven award-winning young adult authors illuminate the lives of Britain's King Henry VIII and his six wives from different viewpoints.
King Henry VIII was a charismatic and extravagant ruler obsessed with both his power as king and with siring a male heir. Six women became his queens, several fated for divorce, or beheading. In this book, seven authors tell of their attempts to survive their unpredictable king and his power-hungry court. As they...