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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...
3) 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.
4) 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.
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.
8) Maniac Magee
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
After his parents die, Jeffrey Lionel Magee's life becomes legendary, as he accomplishes athletic and other feats which awe his contemporaries.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Irish orphans Molly, fourteen, and Kip, ten, travel to England to work as servants in a crumbling manor house where nothing is quite what it seems to be, and soon the siblings are confronted by a mysterious stranger and secrets of the cursed house.
10) Troll mill
Author
Publisher
Eos
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
When fifteen-year-old Peer Ulfsson witnesses the disappearance of his neighbor's wife, rumored to be a seal-woman, he must help protect the baby she leaves behind from trolls, a witch, and other creatures.
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
"Fate intervenes when Ivy is called to the sickbed of a dying duchess and is charged with delivering a mystical (and possibly cursed) diamond necklace to the utterly revolting Matilda Butterfield for her twelfth birthday"--
12) Heat
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Pitching prodigy Michael Arroyo is on the run from social services after being banned from playing Little League baseball because rival coaches doubt he is only twelve years old and he has no parents to offer them proof.
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2011?]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
In 1899, eleven-year-old Teodora goes with her scientist parents from Naples to Venice, Italy, which is falling victim to a series of violent natural disasters, and once there she is drawn into a web of mysterious adventures involving mermaids, an ancient prophecy, and the possible destruction of the city itself.
15) Enchanted glass
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
After his grandfather dies, Andrew Hope inherits a house and surrounding land in an English village, but things become very complicated when young orphan Aidan shows up and suddenly a host of variously magical townsfolk and interlopers start intruding on their lives.
Author
Publisher
Gareth Stevens Pub
Pub. Date
1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Convinced that she is wanted only as a servant in her new home with relatives on a Wyoming ranch, orphaned, eleven-year-old Abby is unhappy until she finds and befriends an injured Mustang and determines to try to save it no matter what the cost to herself.
17) Mandy
Author
Publisher
HarperTrophy
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
Longing for a place of her own, a ten-year-old orphan creates a secret home in a deserted cottage in the village of St. Martin's Green.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sent with her governess to live with the dreadful Carter family in exotic Brazil in 1910, Maia endures many hardships before fulfilling her dream of exploring the Amazon River. Accompanied by Miss Minton, a fierce-looking, no-nonsense governess, Maia, a young orphan, sets off for the wilderness of the Amazon, expecting curtains of orchids, brightly colored macaws, and a loving family. But what she finds is an evil-tempered aunt and uncle and their...
19) Understood Betsy
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
Timid and small for her age, nine-year-old Elizabeth Ann discovers her own abilities and gains a new perception of the world around her when she goes to live with relatives on a farm in Vermont.
20) The grim grotto
Author
Series
Series of unfortunate events volume 11
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
Still pursued by the evil Count Olaf, the Baudelaire orphans attempt to reach a very important VFD meeting, but first they must travel in a rattletrap submarine to the Gorgonian Grotto, a dangerous underwater cave, in search of the sugar bowl.
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