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Miss Peregrine volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
After a family tragedy, Jacob feels compelled to explore an abandoned orphanage on an island off the coast of Wales, discovering disturbing facts about the children who were kept there.
Author
Series
Publisher
Quirk Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
Time is running out for the Peculiar Children. With a dangerous madman on the loose and their beloved Miss Peregrine still in danger, Jacob Portman, and Emma Bloom are forced to stage the most daring of rescue missions. They'll travel through a war-torn landscape, meet new allies, and face greater dangers than ever.
Author
Publisher
Yen Press
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"A horrific family tragedy sets sixteen-year-old Jacob on a journey to a remote island off the coast of Wales, where he discovers the crumbling ruins of Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children. As Jacob explores its abandoned bedrooms and hallways, it becomes clear that the children were more than just peculiar. They may have been dangerous. They may have been quarantined on a deserted island for good reason. And somehow-- impossible though it...
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English
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Evelyn Wisely has a heart for the orphans of Teaville and works at a local mansion that rescues children out of the town's red-light district and gives them a place to live. But her desire to help isn't limited to orphans. The owner of the mansion, Nicholas Lowe, is willing to help her try to get the women working in prostitution out of the district as well--if she can gain the cooperation and support of local businessmen to go against the rest of...
7) June
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Series
Brides of the West volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Wanted: Women with religious upbringing, high morals, and a strong sense of adventure, willing to marry decent, God-fearing men. Applicants may apply by mail. Must allow at least two months for an answer.
Like her sister before her, June leaves her Michigan home to embrace her future as a mail-order bride to a young Washington State pastor. But from the start, nothing works out as June expects. Caught up in her fiancé's vision for an elaborate...
Like her sister before her, June leaves her Michigan home to embrace her future as a mail-order bride to a young Washington State pastor. But from the start, nothing works out as June expects. Caught up in her fiancé's vision for an elaborate...
Author
Series
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children volume 2nd
Publisher
Quirk Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Having escaped Miss Peregrine's island by the skin of their teeth, Jacob and his new friends must journey to London (circa 1940), the "peculiar" capital of the world.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Funny, touching, tragic….A remarkable tale of corruption, child trafficking and civil war in a far away land-and one man's extraordinary quest to reunite lost Nepalese children with their parents."
-Neil White, author of In the Sanctuary of Outcasts
Little Princes is the epic story of Conor Grennan's battle to save the lost children of Nepal and how he found himself in the process. Part Three Cups of Tea, part Into Thin Air, Grennan's remarkable...
12) Sustaining faith
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Series
Language
English
Description
So much has been accomplished. Lillian Walsh has stepped out courageously beyond what she'd ever dreamed of being able to achieve. She and her newly rediscovered sister, Grace, have settled three children from England into new Canadian homes and are prepared to place two more just after the New Year, when it happens--another painful disruption. A white lie the sisters used to protect some orphans has resulted in an official complaint and a letter...
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
Jacob discovers clues to a mystery and stumbles upon Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children. However the mystery is deeper than he had thought, as he gets to know the residents and learn about their special powers. Jacob discovers that only his own special peculiarity can save his new friends.
Author
Series
Robyn Hood volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Master thief Robyn Hood must discover who is taking money from a local orphanage before the kids' fates are put in danger.
19) Unfailing love
Author
Series
When hope calls volume 3
Language
English
Description
As they all struggle to determine their paths forward, each begins to realize that sometimes loving well means making difficult choices--
Lillian Walsh and Grace Bennett have learned so much already about caring for children in distress. It hasn't been easy, but it becomes even more difficult when they suddenly discover that three children have run away. Concerned for the trio's safety, the sisters will do all they can to find the children.
But...
20) Iron house
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
Two families. Two brothers. One explosive secret. John Hart has written four New York Times bestsellers and won an unprecedented two back-to-back Edgar Awards. The New York Times labeled his work "Grisham-style intrigue and Turow-style brooding." Now he delivers a gut-wrenching, heart-stopping thriller no reader will soon forget. There was nothing but time at the Iron Mountain Home for Boys, time for two orphans to learn that life is neither painless...
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