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The night of London's grandest ball, a bold group of women downstairs launch a daring revenge heist against Mayfair society in this dazzling historical novel about power, gender, and class "Rollicking fun and entirely original. Anyone who relishes a good party gone wrong will devour this." --Sarah Penner, New York Times bestselling author of The Lost Apothecary Mrs. King is no ordinary housekeeper. Born into a world of con artists and thieves, she's...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Cinderella's fairy godmother grants her wish to go to the ball, but when she meets the prince Cinderella does not behave well at all, and the fairy godmother must teach her a lesson. Includes puzzles and notes for adults.
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Cowboy Christmas volume 1
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English
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"The little town of Branding Iron, Texas, opens the Christmas season with the Cowboy Christmas Ball, but Sheriff Ben Marsden volunteers to work security so his deputies can attend with dates and families. But this year will be different because a pretty and mysterious redhead has come to town and put Christmas--and loving--on his mind"--
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Carter House girls volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 6
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English
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After a Winter Ball that was a mix of fun and worry, seventeen-year-old DJ sets aside her hope for a quiet Christmas and joins Taylor in Las Vegas, although she fears she will do nothing but try to keep her roommate out of trouble.
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Sparkle spa volume 3
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 2
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English
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When a new salon opens up across the street from Sparkle Spa just in time for the Fall Ball, Aly and Brooke worry about losing customers.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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In this continuation of a twist on Edgar Allen Poe's gothic short story, wealthy seventeen-year-old Araby Worth, betrayed and bereft, discovers that she will fight for her city and the people she loves, beginning at the prince's masked ball.
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Razorbill
Pub. Date
c2013
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IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 3
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English
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When Prince Puggly attends a ball in the Kingdom of Spiff, he is laughed at by all the Spiffs, except for the Princess of Spiff who helps him teach her fellow Spiffian citizens a lesson.
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English
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"One night at the St. Nicholas" It's Christmas Eve, 1859, St. Nickolas Hotel is hosting the most talked about ball of the season. Texas heiress Jacqueline Hartman spends Christmas Eve sharing a hideout with an accused bank robber to escape her stepmother's plot to marry her off.
"Birdie's flight" It's Christmas Eve, 1859, seamstress Birdie Flanagan gets the surprise of her life when she receives a beautiful gown, and invitation to St. Nickolas Hotel's...
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Quirk Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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After traveling from her home planet to Ouris and sneaking into the imperial ball to steal from the galactic elite, expert thief Cass is framed for the unexpected death of the emperor, and must work together with a mysterious rebel to uncover the true plot and clear her name.
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Within days of wishing she could change her life, Fran Cooper is acting assistant to a celebrity, on a yacht in the Mediterranean, and en route to a tiny Italian island and the glittering Crystal Ball, along with the world's rich and famous. When she - quite literally - bumps into a handsome American called Evan, a man able to keep his cool in the face of chaos, the magic really begins. Evan makes her a promise: no last names, no life stories, just...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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Fifteen-year-old Miss Penelope Lumley, a recent graduate of the Swanburne Academy for Poor Bright Females, is hired as governess to three young children who have been raised by wolves and must teach them to behave in a civilized manner quickly, in preparation for a Christmas ball.
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Secrets of the manor volume 3
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Simon Spotlight
Pub. Date
2014.
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IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 4
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English
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While everyone at Chatswood Manor is busy planning a birthday ball, an Irish refugee who is searching for his wife arrives at the house, and Elizabeth and Katherine decide to investigate the woman's disappearance.
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Young Victorian ladies volume 1
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English
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A wallflower... and an elegant gentleman... Gauche Hazel Springfeld is reconciled to being left on the shelf. But at a society ball, she is improbably asked to dance by charismatic Mr Lucas Darkwood. When she discovers it was all for a wager - he'll win a prize if he can turn her into marriage material - Hazel plans to get her own back! She'll frighten Lucas into thinking she really does expect that proposal - from him!
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Sparring partners... to scandalous lovers. Since discovering Raphael Lefevre, Marquis of Montpellier, danced with her to win a wager, cool beauty Lady Serena has openly criticised the rogue's behaviour. Then he rescues her from a blackmailer - and kisses her! Now Serena's forced to pretend they're conducting a scandalous affair. But amidst the parties and balls, Serena realises Raphael is not the dissolute rake he'd have society believe he is... and...