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2) Burn
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 16
Formats
Description
She escaped the fire--but not the effects of the burn.
Janeal has long felt trapped in her father's Gypsy culture. Then one night a powerful man named Salazar Sanso promises her the life she longs for--if she will help recover a vast sum of money tied to her father.
When the plan implodes, Sanso and his men attack the gypsy settlement and burn it to the ground. During the blaze, Janeal is faced with a staggering choice.
The impact of that moment...
6) Meridon
Author
Pub. Date
©1990
Physical Desc
439 pages ; 25 cm
Description
"Here is a dark, passionate tapestry of a young woman's struggle from poverty to wealth . . .of a rebellious heart's tempestuous journey toward love ... set in the savage contrasts of Georgian England, a time alive with treachery, grandeur and intrigue."--Back flap.
7) The extra
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 9
Formats
Description
Is the chance to serve as an extra for Hitler's favorite filmmaker a chance at life -- or a detour on the path to inevitable extermination? In this chilling but ultimately uplifting novel, Kathryn Lasky imagines the lives of the Gypsies who worked as extras for the real Nazi filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl, giving readers a story of survival unlike any other.
Author
Series
Kronos chronicles volume 1
Formats
Description
Petra Kronos has a simple, happy life. But it's never been ordinary. She has a pet tin spider named Astrophil who likes to hide in her snarled hair and give her advice. Her best friend can trap lightning inside a glass sphere. Petra also has a father in faraway Prague who is able to move metal with his mind. He has been commissioned by the prince of Bohemia to build the world's finest astronomical clock. Petra's life is forever changed when, one day,...
Author
Pub. Date
[2017].
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 28 cm
Description
When a Traveller family experiences a run of bad luck, an imaginative boy called Yokki lifts their spirits with tales of a magical white horse. A traditional Traveller-family folk tale which inspires hope and celebrates creativity. Told by a Romani storyteller together with a picture book author to positively reflect Travelling cultures.
Author
Series
Hathaways volume 2
Formats
Description
A story of fate, passion, secrets, and the enduring power of love - the second book in acclaimed New York Times best-selling author Lisa Kleypas' timeless Victorian romance series, featuring the eccentric and lovable Hathaways, revised and updated for audio.
Starstruck lovers cursed by fate.
No one can envision a match between the brooding, powerful Kev Merripen and luminous beauty Winnifred Hathaway. They seem as different as fire and ice...but...
Author
Series
Madeline (Ludwig Bemelmans) volume 5
Pub. Date
1987, [1959]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
56 p. : ill. ; 31 cm.
Description
Pepito, son of the Spanish Ambassador, and Madeline, rescued by gypsies during a storm, travel and perform with their wandering friends until they again find Miss Clavel.
12) Strange beauty
Author
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
144 p. ; 18 cm.
Author
Series
Three little girls dressed in blue volume 01
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
413 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Description
Teased by her sisters for her lack of interest in a young man worth her devotion, former Bostonian Amoretta Ipswich secretly holds on to a dream of marrying the gypsy Brake McClendon.
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 12
Physical Desc
viii, 308 pages ; 22 cm
Description
Although Lace Paloma knows all about the feud between the Palomas and the Corbeaus, she finds herself falling for Cluck Corbeau when he saves her life while both families are performing in the same town.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 9
Formats
Description
In the unique landscape of the Camargue in the South of France during WW2, a young autistic boy lives on his parents' farm among the salt flats and the flamingos that live there. There are lots of things he doesn't understand, but he does know how to heal animals. He loves routine and music too; every week he goes to market with his mother, to ride his special horse on the town carousel. But then the Germans come, with their guns, and take the town....
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