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Author
Pub. Date
1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
A series of unfortunate events, bk.2. After narrowly escaping the menacing clutches of the dastardly Count Olaf, the three Baudelaire orphans are taken in by a kindly herpetologist with whom they live happliy for an all-too-brief time.
Author
Series
Series of unfortunate events volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
After the sudden death of their parents, the three Baudelaire children must depend on each other and their wits when it turns out that the distant relative who is appointed their guardian is determined to use any means necessary to get their fortune.
3) The BFG
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Kidsnatched from her orphanage by a BFG (Big Friendly Giant), who spends his life blowing happy dreams to children, Sophie concocts with him a plan to save the world from nine other man-gobbling cannybull giants.
4) Jane Eyre
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
An abridged version of the story of an orphaned young English woman who accepts employment as a governess at Thornfield Hall, a country estate owned by the mysteriously remote Mr. Rochester.
Author
Publisher
Pleasant Co
Pub. Date
1988
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
When she discovers that Nellie and her sisters have been sent to an orphanage, Samantha, now living with her aunt and uncle in New York City, tries to help her friends as much as she can.
7) The end
Author
Series
A series of unfortunate events volume the 13th
A series of unfortunate events volume the 11th
Series of unfortunate events volume 13
A series of unfortunate events volume the 11th
Series of unfortunate events volume 13
Publisher
HarperCollins
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
Lost at sea, the Baudelaire orphans, along with the evil Count Olaf, wash up on the shore of an island populated by an oddly placid group of inhabitants, and they try to decide whether or not they are truly safe.
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 9
Physical Desc
246 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Despite the harsh treatment he has endured at the Lovell House orphanage, ten-year-old Gib Whittaker manages to maintain his hopeful outlook when he is "farmed out" to help with the horses of a wealthy banker in 1908.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
When Amy and Dan learn the truth about the Madrigals and Grace Cahill's alternate will, these discoveries lead to the revelation of a secret about their family and a showdown with the man in black who has been following them.
Author
Series
Publisher
David Fickling Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Rook Barkwater, one of the apprentices chosen to make a dangerous journey to study in the Deepwoods, joins the sky pirate Captain Twig in opposing the Guardians of the Night and learns more about his own past.
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 9
Physical Desc
230 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1909, after spending several months back at the Lovell House Home for Orphaned and Abandoned Boys, eleven-year-old Gib returns to live on the Thornton ranch, where his natural way with horses helps to make him feel at home.
Author
Series
Series of unfortunate events volume 6
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 7
Physical Desc
259 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
The woeful saga of the Baudelaire orphans continues as evil Count Olaf discovers their whereabouts at Esme Squalor's seventy-one bedroom penthouse and concocts a new plan for stealing their family fortune.
Author
Publisher
Miramax Books/Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 9
Physical Desc
267 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
In futuristic Satellite City, fourteen-year-old Cosmo Hill escapes from his abusive orphanage and teams up with three other people who share his unusual ability to see supernatural creatures. .
Author
Publisher
Pleasant Company Publications
Pub. Date
1999
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
41 p. : col. ill. ; 15 cm.
Language
English
Description
When her friend Nellie, the servant girl from next door, does not show up for ice skating as usual, Samantha is afraid that Nellie will not come to her party because she cannot afford to bring presents
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Co
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 12
Physical Desc
291 p. : ill., map ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When twelve-toed orphan Lucy Wickwright is brought to Castle Cant to be serving girl to the Baron's daughter, the Adorable & Honorable Pauline, she becomes involved with revolutionaries and uncovers surprising palace intrigues.
Author
Series
Series of unfortunate events volume 8
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 6
Physical Desc
255 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
On the run after being falsely accused of murder, the three Baudelaire orphans find themselves in the Heimlich Hospital, with the evil Count Olaf in close pursuit.
19) Olivia Twist
Author
Publisher
Blink
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 14
Physical Desc
331 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Formats
Description
Orphaned at birth and living as a boy, Olivia Brownlow finds herself living as a debutante in high society after a caper goes wrong and encounters Jack MacCarron, a boy once known as the Artful Dodger.
20) The BFG
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
The Big Friendly Giant (BFG) is no ordinary bone-crunching giant. It's lucky for Sophie that he is. Had she been carried off in the middle of the night by any of the other giants, she would have soon become breakfast. Sophie and the BFG decide they must stop them once and for all.