Catalog Search Results
1) The BFG
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
The Big Friendly Giant is no ordinary bone-crunching giant. He is far too nice and it's lucky for Sophie that he is. If she had been carried off by any of the other giants she would have been breakfast. When Sophie hears that the giants are headed to England to steal some little children, she and the BFG decide they must stop them once and for all.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
"A magical island. A dangerous task. A burning secret. Linus Baker leads a quiet, solitary life. At forty, he lives in a tiny house with a devious cat and his old records. As a Case Worker at the Department in Charge Of Magical Youth, he spends his days overseeing the well-being of children in government-sanctioned orphanages. When Linus is unexpectedly summoned by Extremely Upper Management he's given a curious and highly classified assignment: travel...
3) Jane Eyre
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 33
Language
English
Description
In early nineteenth-century England, an orphaned young woman accepts employment as a governess and soon finds herself in love with her employer who has a terrible secret. Charlotte Bronte's novel about the passionate love between Jane Eyre, a young girl alone in the world, and the rich, brilliant, domineering Rochester has enthralled every kind of reader, from the most critical and cultivated to the youngest and most unabashedly romantic, ever since...
Author
Language
English
Description
Southern Appalachia. He was born to a teenaged single mother in a single-wide trailer, with no assets beyond his dead father's good looks and copper-colored hair, a caustic wit, and a fierce talent for survival. Damon braves the perils of foster care, child labor, derelict schools, athletic success, addiction, disastrous loves, and crushing losses. Through all of it, he reckons with his own invisibility in a popular culture where even the superheroes...
7) 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.
9) Oliver Twist
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 11.3 - AR Pts: 33
Language
English
Description
"An orphan living on the dangerous London streets, Oliver has no one but himself to rely on. Fleeing from poverty and hardship, he falls in with a criminal street gang who will not let him go, however hard he tries to escape" -- Amazon.com
10) Gathering blue
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Lame and suddenly orphaned, Kira is mysteriously removed from her squalid village to live in the palatial Council Edifice, where she is expected to use her gifts as a weaver to do the bidding of the all-powerful Guardians.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"A boldly imagined debut novel about three Vietnamese siblings who seek refuge in the UK, expanding into a luminous meditation on ancestry and love. After the last American troops leave Vietnam, siblings Anh, Thanh, and Minh begin a perilous journey to Hong Kong with the promise that their parents and younger siblings will soon follow. But when tragedy strikes, the three children are left orphaned, and sixteen-year-old Anh becomes the caretaker for...
Author
Language
English
Description
Beth Harmon becomes an orphan when her parents are killed in an automobile accident. At eight years old, she is placed in an orphanage in Mount Sterling, Kentucky, where the children are given tranquilizers twice a day. Plain and shy, she learns to play chess from the janitor in the basement and discovers she is a chess genius. Penniless and desperate to learn more, she steals a chess magazine and enough money to enter a chess tournament. She also...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
Anne, an eleven-year-old orphan, is sent by mistake to live with a lonely, middle-aged brother and sister on a Prince Edward Island farm and proceeds to make an indelible impression on everyone around her. Anne (with an 'e' of course) starts out as a mistake. The elderly Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert had planned on adopting a boy to help Matthew with the chores on their Prince Edward Island farm. What are they to do with the red-haired, high-spirited...
15) Siege and storm
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Formats
Description
Hunted across the True Sea and haunted by the lives she took on the Fold, Alina must try to make a life with Mal in an unfamiliar land, all while keeping her identity as the Sun Summoner a secret.
16) The reptile room
Author
Series
Series of unfortunate events volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
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 happily for an all-too-brief time.
Author
Language
Español
Formats
Description
Un clásico que vuelve para robarnos el corazón
Nueva edición revisada de la novela de Lucy Maud Montgomery
La novela que inspiró la serie de NETFLIX, Anne with an E
Matthew y Marilla llevan una vida tranquila y rutinaria en el pequeño pueblo de Avonlea. Ya ancianos, deciden adoptar un huérfano para que los ayude con las tareas de la granja. Pero en vez del niño prometido por el orfanato, a casa de los Cuthbert llega
18) Heidi
Author
Series
Language
Español
Formats
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.
Author
Language
English
Description
"Bestselling author Mitch Albom returns to nonfiction for the first time in more than a decade in this poignant memoir that celebrates Chika, a young Haitian orphan whose short life would forever change his heart. Chika Jeune was born three days before the devastating earthquake that decimated Haiti in 2010. She spent her infancy in a landscape of extreme poverty, and when her mother died giving birth to a baby brother, Chika was brought to The Have...
Author
Language
English
Description
"One summer morning, twelve-year-old Edward Adler, his beloved older brother, his parents, and 183 other passengers board a flight in Newark headed for Los Angeles. Among them are a Wall Street wunderkind, a young woman coming to terms with an unexpected pregnancy, an injured veteran returning from Afghanistan, a business tycoon, and a free-spirited woman running away from her controlling husband. Halfway across the country, the plane crashes. Edward...
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Materials Request Service. Submit Request