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Author
Series
Davenports volume 1
Publisher
Dial Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Lexile measure
HL 720L
Physical Desc
379 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
The Davenports are one of the few Black families of immense wealth and status in a changing United States, their fortune made through the entrepreneurship of William Davenport, a formerly enslaved man who founded the Davenport Carriage Company years ago. Now it's 1910, and the Davenports live surrounded by servants, crystal chandeliers, and endless parties, finding their way and finding love--even where they're not supposed to. There is Olivia, the...
Author
Series
Sinclair mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Kane Miller
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First American edition.
Lexile measure
910L
Physical Desc
334 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Our heroines, Sophie and Lil, don cunning disguises, mingle in high society and munch many cucumber sandwiches to solve this curious case. Applaud their bravery as they follow a trail of terrible secrets that leads straight to London's most dangerous criminal mastermind, and put their own lives at risk. It will be the most thrilling event of the season.
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Fire
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
343 pages : map ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Koral and her brother, Emrik, risk their lives to capture the monstrous maristags that live in the black seas around their island. They have to, or else their family will starve. In an oceanic world swarming with vicious beasts, the ruling elite have indentured her family to provide the maristags for the Glory Race, a deadly chariot tournament reserved for the upper class. The winner receives gold and glory. The losers--if they're...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"'You must work twice as hard to get half as much.' Adina Walker has known this the entire time she's been on scholarship at the prestigious Edgewater Academy--a school for the rich (and mostly white) upper class of New England. It's why she works so hard to be perfect and above reproach, no matter what she must force beneath the surface. Even one slip can cost you everything. And it does. One fight, one moment of lost control, leaves Adina blacklisted...
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2017]
Lexile measure
680L
Physical Desc
355 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"In the summer of 1965, Sophie's family becomes the first African Americans to move into their upper middle-class neighborhood in Los Angeles. When riots erupt in nearby Watts, she learns that life and her own place in it are a lot more complicated than they had seemed" --
8) Spin of fate
Author
Series
Fifth realm volume 1
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
411 pages : maps ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
In a universe that segregates beings based on the weight of their souls into upper realms of peace and lower realms of strife, three teenagers join a rebel group defying the powers that be by bringing aid to the inhabitants of the lower realms.
9) Worldshaker
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Lexile measure
640L
Physical Desc
388 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Col Porpentine is being groomed as the next Commander of Worldshaker, a juggernaut where elite families live on the upper decks while the Filthies toil below, but when he meets Riff, a Filthy girl on the run, he discovers how ignorant he is of his home and its residents.
10) The rebellion
Author
Publisher
Kirsten T. FitzSimmons
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First paperback edition
Physical Desc
231 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Follow the story of Jack Schmall, a headstrong young man from the slums of New Colony. A place of prejudice and class discrimination, New Colony is controlled with an iron fist by Byron Knight and a rich upper class. Tasked with clear cutting a large section of woods, for Knight's new "Project", Jack and his friends are worked to the bone. Until, a chance encounter and the suffering of an innocent pushes Jack to his limit...
Author
Series
Glittering court volume 1
Publisher
Razorbill, an imprint of Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
2016.
Lexile measure
HL 750L
Physical Desc
400 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"For a select group of girls, the Glittering Court offers a shot at a life they've only ever dreamed of, one of luxury, glamour, and leisure. To high-born Adelaide, whose wealthy family is forcing her into a loveless marriage, the Glittering Court represents something else: the chance to chart her own destiny, and adventure in an unspoiled, prosperous new land across the sea. After a chance meeting with the dazzling Cedric Thorn, Adelaide poses as...
12) Evalene's number
Author
Series
Publisher
Grace House Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
Second edition.
Physical Desc
386 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Everyone in Eden is assigned a Number, tattooed on their neck, which determines their value and place in the world. On her Numbering Day, Evalene Vandereth anticipates joining the élite. Born in an upper-class family, she knows exactly who she is and what she is worth. Even as the needle breaks her skin, she is blissfully happy. She never considers another outcome, until it's too late. Now 18-year-old Evalene lives in fear, struggling with her new...
Author
Publisher
Crown Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
850L
Physical Desc
342 pages : illustration ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Rumors of a coming global apocalypse are building as Skye Rogers gets let in to the most exclusive group in upper class New York"--
Rich vs. Poor. Life vs. Death. When Skye Rogers and her twin brother, Red, move to Manhattan, rumors of a coming global apocalypse are building. But the ultra-wealthy young elites at their prestigious school keep partying like there's no tomorrow--while the city around them starts to fall apart. Then Skye and Red are...
14) Jane Eyre
Author
Series
Publisher
Manga Classics, Inc
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
318 pages : chiefly illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In early nineteenth-century England, an orphaned young woman accepts employment as a governess at Thornfield Hall, a country estate owned by the mysteriously remote Mr. Rochester.