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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
One warm night four children stood in front of a bakery. No one knew them. No one knew where they had come from. Henry, Jessie, Violet, and Benny are orphans. Determined to make it on their own, they set out to find a safe place to live. They discover an old, red boxcar that provides shelter from a storm. Against all odds, they make it into their home-and become The Boxcar Children.
2) Heidi
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
A Swiss orphan is heartbroken when she must leave her beloved grandfather and their happy home in the mountains to go to school and to care for an invalid girl in the city. Includes illustrated notes throughout the text explaining the historical back
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Language
English
Description
Based on the beloved classic children’s novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett, this edition of The Secret Garden is a beautifully illustrated hardcover picture book adaptation that all children will treasure.
Once upon a time…a walled garden bloomed under the summer skies in the north of England. But it was locked up and left all alone. And it stayed all alone, for many years. Until…
When young Mary Lennox moves into Misselthwaite Manor, she hates...
4) Pollyanna
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
In early twentieth-century Vermont, orphaned, eleven-year-old Pollyanna comes to live with her austere and wealthy Aunt Polly, and uses her philosophy of gladness to bring happiness to her aunt and other unhappy members of the community.
5) Oliver Twist
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
In nineteenth-century England, a young orphan boy lives in the squalid surroundings of a workhouse until he runs away and is captured by a gang of thieves, and is finally reunited with his long lost family.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
The eighth novel of Charles Dickens, which was first published serially between May 1849 and November 1850, "David Copperfield", is viewed as one of the most autobiographical of all the author's novels. A classic coming-of-age story, it is the tale of its titular character from childhood to maturity which chronicles the struggle between the emotional and moral aspects of his life. Central to the theme of the novel is the idea of the disciplined heart....
9) Buddha Boy
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Language
English
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Description
With his shaved head and begging bowl the new kid is an automatic target for the bully boys of Edward Rucher High-an easy mark for their casual cruelty. Watching this, Justin would gladly stay as far from the newcomer as possible-until their economics teacher pairs them for a project and he finds himself becoming fascinated by the kid the others mock as "Buddha Boy." The thing is, friendship with an outcast always carries a price, and soon Justin...
11) Kidnapped
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
"In 1751 in Scotland, cheated out of his inheritance by a greedy uncle who has him kidnapped and put on a ship to the Carolinas, seventeen-year-old David Balfour escapes to the Highlands with the help of the Jacobite Alan Breck Stewart and there encounters further danger and intrigue as he attempts to clear his name and regain his property."
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Series
A series of unfortunate events volume 9
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
On the run as suspected murderers, the unlucky Baudelaire orphans find themselves trapped in the Caligari Carnival, where they must masquerade as freaks in order to hide from the evil Count Olaf.
13) Peter Pan
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
The adventures of the three Darling children in Never-Never Land with Peter Pan, the boy who would not grow up. "All children, except one, grow up." And so begins the story of one of the most beloved characters in children's literature, Peter Pan. J.M. Barrie's classic tale, completely unabridged, features a boy who refuses to grow up, Tinker Bell the fairy, and the Darling children -- Wendy, John, and Michael. Their great adventure begins on the...
14) Clockwork angel
Author
Series
Infernal devices volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Formats
Description
When sixteen-year-old orphan Tessa Fell's older brother suddenly vanishes, her search for him leads her into Victorian-era London's dangerous supernatural underworld, and when she discovers that she herself is a Downworlder, she must learn to trust the demon-killing Shadowhunters if she ever wants to learn to control her powers and find her brother.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
It happens at the start of every November: the Scorpio Races. Riders attempt to keep hold of their water horses long enough to make it to the finish line. Some riders live. Others die. At age nineteen, Sean Kendrick is the returning champion. He is a young man of few words, and if he has any fears, he keeps them buried deep, where no one else can see them. Puck Connolly is different. She never meant to ride in the Scorpio Races. But fate hasn't given...
16) The wide window
Author
Series
A series of unfortunate events volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Catastrophes and misfortune continue to plague the Baudelaire orphans after they're sent to live with fearful Aunt Josephine who offers little protection against Count Olaf's treachery.
Author
Series
Magic misfits volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Six young magicians and illusionists team up to save their small town from a crooked carnival owner and his goons-- Provided by publisher.
18) A single shard
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Tree-ear, a thirteen-year-old orphan in medieval Korea, lives under a bridge near a potters' village, and longs to learn how to throw the delicate celadon ceramics himself.
19) The drop box
Publisher
Focus on the Family
Pub. Date
p2015
Language
English
Description
Whit and Eugene are far away from Whit's End! In this new adventure, they meet a local pastor in South Korea whose home is overflowing with children. What on earth is going on? Why are women abandoning their babies? And how can Whit and Eugene help? Based on the amazing true story of Pastor Lee Jong-rak, The Drop Box will pull at your heartstrings as it celebrates one man's courage and the value of each and every life.
20) Eleven
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Sam, who can barely read, discovers an old newspaper clipping just before his eleventh birthday, it brings forth memories from his past, and, with the help of a new friend at school and the castle they are building for a school project, his ques
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