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(0)Susan Fletcher
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English
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Marjan is a poor, crippled orphan girl, but she is happy living with her aunt and uncle in the Sultan's city. Her hero is the beautiful Shahrazad, who has bewitched the Sultan with her nightly tales and thus keeps him from killing other wives. Marjan wonders what Shahrazad's life is like in the silken rooms of the palace. She will soon find out. Taken to the palace to help Shahrazad find new tales, Marjan realizes that the lovely woman is a prisoner...
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English
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The powerful new novel from the award-winning author of 'Eve Green' and 'Oystercatchers' is a tale of love and the lore of the sea. A profound tale of love, loss and the lore of the sea. The islanders of Parla are still mourning the loss of one of their own. Four years since that loss, and a man - un-named, unclothed - is washed onto their shores. Some say he is a mythical man from the sea - potent, kind and beautiful; others suspect him. For the...
3) Corrag
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Language
English
Description
A novel from Susan Fletcher, author of the bestselling Eve Green and Oystercatchers. The Massacre of Glencoe happened at 5am on 13th February 1692 when thirty-eight members of the Macdonald clan were killed by soldiers who had enjoyed the clan's hospitality for the previous ten days. Many more died from exposure in the mountains. Fifty miles to the south Corrag is condemned for her involvement in the Massacre. She is imprisoned, accused of witchcraft...
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English
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Her family's lighthouse home is an island of enchantment for 13-year-old Eliza Wells. Surrounded by whales, seals, and pelicans, she avoids the problems that beset the mainland: like the increasingly heated conflict between the local town's white and Chinese citizens. This compelling historical novel by the award-winning author of Shadow Spinner is based on actual 19th-century events. Narrator Christina Moore voices all the confusion, compassion,...
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Deutsch
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Pleased to meet you, Mrs Butterfield!
Ein altes Herrenhaus mit einem großen Garten, in dem Lavendel, Mohn und Kornblumen blühen. Morgens singt der Zaunkönig in den Büschen, abends lässt man den Tag bei einem Gin Tonic unter den Apfelbäumen ausklingen. Florence Butterfield, lebenserfahren, weit gereist und ausgestattet mit unerschütterlichem Optimismus, kann sich keinen schöneren Ort für den Lebensabend vorstellen als die Seniorenresidenz...
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English
Description
Florrie Butterfield--eighty-seven, one-legged, and of cheerful disposition--believes there can't be any more surprises in life. Yet one evening, there's an accident at Babbington Hall--the adult residence where she lives--so shocking and strange that Florrie is suspicious; is this really an accident? Or is she being lied to? Is she living alongside a potential murderer? In her efforts to learn the truth, Florrie is forced to look back on her own life,...
Author
Series
Dragon chronicles volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
Kaeldra, an outsider adopted by an Elythian family as a baby, possesses the power to understand dragons and uses this power to try to save her younger sister who needs dragon's milk to recover from an illness.
Author
Series
Dragon chronicles volume 3
Publisher
Atheneum Book for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
As the last of the dragon eggs, laid long ago, begin to hatch, Lyf becomes a reluctant friend who tries to save both the dragon mothers and their newly born children from their enemies.
Author
Series
Dragon chronicles volume 4
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Bryn must try to find a way to save a baby dragon from a dangerous modern world that seems to have no place for something so ancient.
Author
Series
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2010, c1993
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Kara is summoned by King Orrik, who believes she has the power to call down the dragons that have been plundering his realm, and she is caught up in the fierce rivalry between Orrik and his jealous brother Rog.
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Arthur forms a bond with a polar bear given by King Haakon IV of Norway to King Henry III of England in 1252 while traveling as her handler. Includes historical notes.
14) A Little in Love
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Language
English
Description
As a young child Eponine never knew kindness, except once from her family's kitchen slave, Cosette. When at sixteen the girls' paths cross again and their circumstances are reversed, Eponine must decide what that friendship is worth.