Nicola Barber
1) Fire and ice
Author
Series
Spirit animals volume 4
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Conor, Abeke, Meilin, and Rollan, supported by their spirit animals, follow a lead in the cold North only to arrive in a deceptively beautiful village where everything is not as it seems.
2) Wild born
Author
Series
Spirit animals volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
As a dark force engulfs the land, the fate of Erdas has fallen on the shoulders of four young strangers who each have forged a rare bond with their spirit beasts -- a bond that gives great powers to all of them.
3) Hunted
Author
Series
Spirit animals volume 2
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Four children have discovered that they have spirit animals, a rare bond between human and animal that has launched them on a quest to save their world. The team heads to the forests of Eura, where another Great Beast is hidden.
Author
Series
Spirit animals volume 6
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
"Deep in the desert there sits a beautiful oasis, ruled by a monarch unlike any other in Erdas. His name is Cabaro, the Great Lion, and he reigns over a kingdom of animals, jealously guarding his golden talisman. No human has ever set foot on the Great Beast's territory. The journey to his oasis is impossible. As a team, Conor, Abeke, Meilin, and Rollan have achieved the impossible before. But now that team is broken--the friends scattered by a devastating...
5) Blood ties
Author
Series
Spirit animals volume 3
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
As the Conquerors try to destroy Erdas, Meilin -- fed up with waiting and ready to fight -- sets off into enemy territory with her spirit animal, a panda named Jhi. Her friends Conor and Abeke aren't far behind ... but they're not the only ones.
6) The evertree
Author
Series
Spirit animals volume 7
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Conor, Abeke, Meilin, and Rollan have journeyed across Erdas, racing to stop a merciless foe. Now that journey is about to end. They must reach a place forgotten by time and face off against an ancient enemy breaking free from his prison. They have just one chance to stop him -- or the whole world will shatter.
Author
Series
Spirit animals volume 5
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Four children separated by vast distances all undergo the same ritual, watched by cloaked strangers. Four flashes of light erupt, and from them emerge the unmistakable shapes of incredible beasts - a wolf, a leopard, a panda, a falcon. Suddenly the paths of these children - and the world - have been changed for ever. Enter the world of Erdas, where every child who comes of age must discover if they have a spirit animal, a rare bond between human and...
Author
Series
Vega Jane volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
"Why would Quentin Herms flee into the Quag? There was nothing in the Quag except certain death. Vega Jane has never left the village of Wormwood. But this isn't unusual--nobody has ever left the village of Wormwood. At least not until Quentin Herms vanishes into the unknown. Vega knows Quentin didn't just leave--he was chased. And he's left behind a very dangerous trail of clues that only she can decode. The Quag is a dark forest filled with terrifying...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
[A] sweeping Victorian epic of lost love, lies, jealousy, and rebellion set in colonial Barbados. Barbados, 1854: Emily Dawson has always been the poor cousin in a prosperous English merchant clan -- merely a vicar's daughter, and a reform-minded vicar's daughter, at that. Everyone knows that the family's lucrative shipping business will go to her cousin, Adam, one day. But when her grandfather dies, Emily receives an unexpected inheritance: Peverills,...
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
War further frays the bonds of a tense friendship when Kezia marries girlhood friend Thea's brother, Tom, and war breaks out between Britain and Germany. With Tom and Thea headed to the battlefield, Kezia is left to run Tom's farm, exchanging comforting lies with her husband through cards and letters as she and Tom cope with being apart. But a moment of truth is coming, and lies can do little against the biting pain of harsh reality.
11) I let you go
Author
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Devastated by a hit-and-run accident that has ended the life of her young son, Jenna moves to the remote Welsh coast to search for healing while two dedicated policemen try to get to the bottom of the case.
12) 13 treasures
Author
Series
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Bedeviled by evil fairies that only she can see, thirteen-year-old Tanya is sent to stay with her cold and distant grandmother at Elvesden Manor, where she and the caretaker's son solve a disturbing mystery that leads them to the discovery that Tanya's life is in danger. When children begin to disappear, she realizes that it is up to her, along with the caretaker's son, Fabian, to go into Hangman's Wood and find the truth. There she encounters a girl...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
From Lauren Willig, author of the New York Times bestselling novel The Ashford Affair, comes The Other Daughter, a tale full of deceit, passion, and revenge.
Raised in a poor yet genteel household, Rachel Woodley is working in France as a governess when she receives news that her mother has died suddenly. Grief-stricken, she returns to the small town in England where she was raised to clear out the cottage...and
Author
Series
Stalking Jack the Ripper volume 1
Publisher
Jimmy Patterson Books/Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
A gothic murder mystery set in gritty Victorian-era London, where an intrepid society girl finds herself embroiled in the investigation of a serial killer known as Jack the Ripper.
Author
Series
Stalking Jack the Ripper volume 2
Publisher
Jimmy Patterson Books, Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
"Bizarre murders are discovered in the castle of Prince Vlad the Impaler, otherwise known as Dracula. Could it be a copycat killer...or has the depraved prince been brought back to life?"-- Provided by publisher.
Following the horror of her discovery of Jack the Ripper's true identity, Audrey Rose Wadsworth has no choice but to flee London and its memories. Together with Thomas Cresswell she journeys to the dark heart of Romania, home to one of Europe's...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
When an ancient dark force emerges from a centuries-long slumber, Conor, Abeke, Meilin, and Rollan must stop it from sweeping through Erdas and destroying their spirit animals--and the world.
17) Extra yarn
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
With a supply of yarn that never runs out, Annabelle knits for everyone and everything in town until an evil archduke decides he wants the yarn for himself.
18) Rooftoppers
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
When authorities threaten to take Sophie, twelve, from Charles who has been her guardian since she was one and both survived a shipwreck, the pair goes to Paris to try to find Sophie's mother, and they are aided by Matteo and his band of "rooftoppers."
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperColllinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
An heiress, a resistance fighter, and a widow are all joined by one legendary hotel: the Ritz in Paris.
France, 1914. As war breaks out, Aurelie becomes trapped on the wrong side of the front with her father, Comte Sigismund de Courcelles. When the Germans move into their family's ancestral estate, using it as their headquarters, Aurelie discovers she knows the German Major's aide de camp, Maximilian Von Sternburg. She and the dashing young officer...
20) Broken ground
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
A new threat -- something ancient and evil -- faces the world of Erdas and four young heroes and their spirit animals are determined to stop it as they embark on a desperate journey that takes them deep underground and to the far corners of the world.