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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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Description
A copy of Grimms' Fairy Tales sends Sylvie, a sixteen-year-old ballerina-in-training, in search of her runaway older sister amid strange happenings, such as a woman leaving a shoe behind while running.--
Julia Blake has disappeared-- did she run away, or is she in trouble? When a copy of their favorite fairy-story book arrives with a mysterious list inside, her sister Sylvie begins to see signs of her sister, and their favorite fairy tales, everywhere...
3) Pegasus
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Formats
Description
Because of a thousand-year-old alliance between humans and pegasi, Princess Sylvi is ceremonially bound to Ebon, her own pegasus, on her twelfth birthday, but the closeness of their bond becomes a threat to the status quo and possibly to the safety of their two nations.
5) Blue Gold
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Sylvie's family had to lee the Democratic Republic of the Congo after her father was killed by a rogue militia gang in the conlict for control of coltan. The refugee camp where she now lives is deplorable, and Sylvie yearns for a way out-to save not only herself, but her remaining family. Laiping labors in a Chinese factory, soldering components for cell phones. She had left her small village to make her fortune, but the factory conditions are crushing,...
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
Dark secrets linking two Alabama families and their Welsh ancestors slowly come to light when seventeen-year-old Sylvie, whose promising ballet career has come to a sudden end, spends a month with a cousin she barely knows in her father's ancestral home.