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Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Co
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 12
Physical Desc
330 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. + 1 CD-ROM (4 3/4 in.)
Language
English
Description
Edgar, an eleven-year-old orphan, finds a book that reveals significant secrets about Atherton, the strictly divided world on which he lives, even as geological changes threaten to shift the power structure that allows an elite few to live off the labor of others.
62) Dancing shoes
Author
Publisher
Bullseye Books
Pub. Date
1994
Edition
1st Bullseye Books ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 8
Physical Desc
237 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
After her mother's death, Rachel and her adopted sister Hilary are taken in by Aunt Cora, who runs a dancing school where Rachel's spoiled cousin Dulcie is the star pupil.
Author
Series
A series of unfortunate events volume 9
Pub. Date
2002
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.
64) The singing
Author
Series
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st Candlewick Press ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 24
Physical Desc
470 p. : map ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
The bard Maerad and her brother Hem hold the key to the mysterious Singing, and they must overcome terrible obstacles before they can unite and unlock the Tree of Song, release the music of the Elidhu, and defeat the Nameless One.
65) A map of days
Author
Series
Miss Peregrine's peculiar children volume 4
Publisher
Dutton Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
Miss Peregrine, Emma and her peculiar friends are back in Florida with Jacob Portman. They discover a subterranean bunker that belonged to Jacob's grandfather, Abe. Clues to Abe's double life as a peculiar operative start to emerge, revealing secrets long hidden in plain sight. Jacob begins to learn about the dangerous legacy he has inherited - truths that were part of him long before he walked into Miss Peregrine's time loop.
67) Counting by 7s
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old genius and outsider Willow Chance must figure out how to connect with other people and find a surrogate family for herself after her parents are killed in a car accident.
70) Goose chase
Author
Publisher
Puffin Books
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 8
Physical Desc
214 p. : 17 cm.
Language
English
Description
Rather than marry a cruel king or a seemingly dim-witted prince, an enchanted goose girl endures imprisonment, capture by several ogresses, and other dangers, before learning exactly who she is.
Author
Series
Creektown discoveries volume vol 2
Creektown discoveries volume 2
Thorndike Press large print Christian fiction
Creektown discoveries volume 2
Thorndike Press large print Christian fiction
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Welcome to Sugarcreek, Ohio, where the Amish schoolteacher has a determined admirer. Tragically losing her parents as a child, Lisa Miller has grown up being afraid of loving and losing. She dedicates herself to teaching at an Amish schoolhouse and helping the grandparents who raised her, all the while avoiding the advances of newcomer Paul Herchberger. Paul enjoys antiques and meets Orley Troyer while looking for unique old milk bottles at yard...
72) Stormbreaker
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
After the death of the uncle who had been his guardian, fourteen-year-old Alex Rider is coerced to continue his uncle's dangerous work for Britain's intelligence agency, MI6.
Author
Series
Pellinor volume 1st
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2006, c2002
Edition
1st U.S. pbk. ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 24
Physical Desc
xiii, 492 p. : map ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
A manuscript from the lost civilization of Edil-Amarandah chronicles the experiences of sixteen-year-old Maerad, an orphan gifted in the magic and power of the Bards, as she escapes from slavery and begins to learn how to use her gift to stave off evil.
Author
Series
Publisher
Albert Whitman
Pub. Date
2012, c1997-2010
Physical Desc
116, 135, 114 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
The Alden siblings try to investigate who is sabotaging the summer soccer team, stole the basketball MVP trophy, and is spying on the signals of the Cogs' pitcher.
Author
Series
The Dopple Ganger chronicles volume 3
Publisher
Tyndale House
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 4
Physical Desc
293 p. : col. ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
When an anonymous note threatens someone they love, twins Sadie and Saskia Dopple are thrust into a series of crimes that look suspiciously like something from the pages of a mystery novel.
Author
Publisher
Andrews McMeel Publishing
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert decide to adopt an orphan who can help manage their family farm, they have no idea what delightful trouble awaits them. With flame-red hair and an unstoppable imagination, eleven-year-old Anne Shirley takes Green Gables by storm.
Author
Series
Publisher
Puffin Books
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
172 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
In the Colorado Territory in 1875, orphan Margret and her older sister Libby are staying with the kind-hearted Mrs. Fredrickson when Margret finds an injured horse, which she nurses back to health and wants to keep.
Author
Series
Series of unfortunate events volume 5
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2000
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 6
Physical Desc
221 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
As their outrageous misfortune continues, the Baudelaire orphans are shipped off to a miserable boarding school, where they befriend the two Quagmire triplets and find that they have been followed by the dreaded Count Olaf.
Author
Series
Series of unfortunate events volume 7
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 7
Physical Desc
256 p. : ill. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
Under a new government program based on the saying "It takes a village to raise a child," the Baudelaire orphans are adopted by an entire town, with disastrous results.