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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
Sourcebooks Fire
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
368 pages : illustration ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In St. Hilaire, where most residents talk to the dead, Dec, who yearns for a fresh start, Russ, who plans to run his town, and piano prodigy Annie Krylova meet and find their lives transformed. Told from multiple viewpoints.
Author
Series
Publisher
Speak
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Reluctant teenage spy Alex Rider, on a routine mission at the Wimbledon tennis championships, gets caught up in Chinese gangs, illegal nuclear weapons, and the suspect plans of his Russian host, General Sarov.
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.
50) Eagle Strike
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
After a chance encounter with assassin Yassen Gregorovich, teenage spy Alex Rider investigates pop star Damian Cray, whose new video game venture hides sinister motives involving Air Force One, nuclear missiles, and the drug trade. .
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.
52) Ark angel
Author
Series
Publisher
Speak
Pub. Date
2007, c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 12
Physical Desc
326 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
After recovering from a near fatal gunshot wound, teenage spy Alex Rider embarks on a new mission to stop a group of eco-terrorists from sabotaging the launch of the first outer space hotel.
Author
Series
Boxcar children mysteries volume 105
Publisher
Albert Whitman & Co
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
120 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
When the Aldens stay at an old Kansas inn, Harry, Jessie, Violet, and Bennie try to figure out why guests travel great lengths to visit it.
54) 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.
55) The Innocents
Author
Physical Desc
290 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"A novel about an orphaned brother and sister who must fend for themselves on a remote fishing outpost in the late 1800s"--
56) 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.
Author
Series
Adventures of Benny and Watch volume no. 1
Publisher
Albert Whitman
Pub. Date
1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Four orphaned children make a home for themselves in an abandoned boxcar and are united with their grandfather.
58) Point blank
Author
Series
Publisher
Speak
Pub. Date
2006, c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 8
Physical Desc
274, 17 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Alex continues his work as a spy for the British MI6, investigating an exclusive school for boys in the French Alps.
Author
Series
Series of unfortunate events volume 4
Publisher
HarperTrophy
Pub. Date
2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
194 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
Accidents, evil plots, and general misfortune abound when, in their continuing search for a home, the Beaudelaire orphans are sent to live and work in a sinister lumber mill.
60) Russian roulette
Author
Series
Alex Rider volume 10
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Presented with an unexpected assignment, Alex Rider's greatest nemesis, Yassen Gregoravich, recalls his life and the path that led him to become an assassin while his one-time friend, Alex's uncle, became a spy.