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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...
2) 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: 9.2 - AR Pts: 35
Language
English
Description
"Great Expectations" is at once a superbly constructed novel of spellbinding mastery and a profound examination of moral values. Here, some of Dickens's most memorable characters come to play their part in a story whose title itself reflects the deep irony that shaped Dickens's searching reappraisal of the Victorian middle class.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 25
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1938, three orphans--Theo, Carl, and Ian, ages ten to thirteen--lead three teachers through a portal that takes them from Dover, England, to Morocco in their quest to locate six silver boxes before the ancient prophecies therein are found by the evil Demogorgon's offspring.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Left an orphan after the influenza epidemic in British East Africa in 1918, thirteen-year-old Rachel is tricked into assuming a deceased neighbor's identity to travel to England, where her only dream is to return to Africa and rebuild her parents' mission hospital.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
"Twelve-year-old Crow has lived her entire life on a tiny, isolated piece of the starkly beautiful Elizabeth Islands in Massachusetts. Abandoned and set adrift in a small boat when she was just hours old, Crow's only companions are Osh, the man who rescued and raised her, and Miss Maggie, their fierce and affectionate neighbor across the sandbar. Crow has always been curious about the world around her, but it isn't until the night a mysterious fire...
9) Once
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
After living in an Catholic orphanage for nearly four years, a naive Jewish boy runs away and embarks on a journey across Nazi-occupied Poland to find his parents.
Author
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
In rural Minnesota in 1974, thirteen-year-old Pride Star, raised to be independent, must accept help from friends and neighbors to care for eleven-year-old Nightingale and six-year-old Baby when her grandfather is hospitalized with a brain infection.
11) A single shard
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Tree-ear, a thirteen-year-old orphan in medieval Korea, lives under a bridge in a potters' village, and longs to learn how to throw the delicate celadon ceramics himself.
12) Lucky strikes
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
"Set in Depression Era Virginia, this is the story of orphaned Amelia and her struggle to keep her siblings together"--
With her mama recently dead and her pa sight unseen since birth, Amelia is suddenly in charge of her younger brother and sister-- and the family gas station. To keep a competitor at bay and keep her family out of foster care, Melia must come up with a father-- fast. When a hobo rolls out of a passing truck, Melia grabs opportunity...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Formats
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.
14) Scorpia rising
Author
Series
Alex Rider adventure volume 9
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Formats
Description
When the world's deadliest terrorist organization, Scorpia, stirs up trouble in the Middle East, it is up to fourteen-year-old MI6 agent Alex Rider to thwart their plans.
Author
Series
Publisher
Little, Brown
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
As Daniel X continues to hunt for intergalactic aliens, he and his friends go to England searching for Beta, an outlaw who takes the form of fire and who killed Daniel's parents when he was two years old.
16) Counting by 7s
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
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.
17) Eagle Strike
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
After a chance encounter with assassin Yassen Gregorovich in the South of France, teenage spy Alex Rider investigates international pop star and philanthropist Damian Cray whose new video game venture hides sinister motives involving Air Force One, nuclear missiles, and the international drug trade.
Author
Publisher
Disney Hyperion
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
In this story inspired by Jules Verne's "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea," Ana Dakkar, a freshman at Harding-Pencroft Academy, a five-year high school that graduates the best marine scientists, naval warriors, navigators, and underwater explorers in the world, makes astounding discoveries about her heritage and puts her leadership skills to the test against deadly enemies from a rival school.
20) The Enigma game
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
Told in multiple voices, fifteen-year-old Jamaican Louisa Adair uncovers an Enigma machine in the small Scottish village where she cares for an elderly German woman, and helps solve a puzzle that could turn the tide of World War II.
A German soldier risks his life to drop off the sought-after Enigma Machine to British Intelligence, hiding it in a pub in a small town in northeast Scotland. Louisa Adair, a teen girl hired to look after the pub owner's...
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