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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the nineteenth century, ten-year-old Florence Crutchfield leaves a London orphanage to live with her great-uncle, great-aunt, and sickly cousin James, but she soon realizes the home has another resident, who means to do her and James harm.
42) A king's ransom
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
Thirteen-year-old Dan Cahill and his older sister Amy race against time to find an ancient map that has not been seen for half a century and use it to redeem their family members who have been kidnapped by a sinister organization called the Vespers.
43) Scorpia rising
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Formats
Description
Alex Rider must once again do battle against the terrorist organization responsible for the death of his parents--Scorpia--when their plot in the Middle East poses a threat to humanity, but this time around the risks are bigger and Alex will not walk away so easily.
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2015
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
After her father is killed in a pogrom, twelve-year-old Sarah and her mother immigrate to America--but when her mother dies before they get through Ellis Island, and the authorities want to send her back to the old country, Sarah hides in the torch of the Statue of Liberty.
45) Safe at home
Author
Publisher
Walden Media
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Nick Crandall's new foster parents are both professors who know nothing about sports, and his new teammates feel he is too young to play varsity baseball; but Nick is out to prove that he belongs not only to his team, but to his parents as well.
46) Monkey trouble
Author
Series
Boxcar children mysteries volume 127
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
While spending two days touring a zoo to see the baby animals, the four Alden children, aged six to fourteen, help catch an escaped monkey, participate in a photography contest, and investigate a missing camera.
47) Counting by 7s
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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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.
48) Defy the worlds
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Formats
Description
Shunned after a trip through the galaxy with Abel, the most advanced cybernetic man ever created, Noemi Vidal dreams of traveling through the stars one more time. When a deadly plague arrives on Genesis, Noemi is the only soldier to have ever left the planet. It's up to her to save its people-- if only she wasn't flying straight into a trap. On the run to avoid his creator, Burton Mansfield, Abel hears that Noemi has been captured-- by Mansfield....
49) Picture the dead
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Fire
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
A young woman communicates with her brother who died in 1864 in order to find out what happened to her fiance, Will, whom the army said died in battle; and with the help of a spiritualist photographer and the spirit of Will, she attempts to piece together the mystery of what happened.
50) Wrecked
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster BFYR
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
After a boating accident off Whym Island, South Carolina, takes the lives of four friends and injures three others, seventeen-year-old Miranda meets Christian, a sort of merman who saved her life but was then charged by a sea witch to kill her.
Author
Publisher
Putnam's
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Through letters to his little sister, who is living in a different foster home, sixth-grader Lonnie, also known as "Locomotion," keeps a record of their lives while they are apart, describing his own foster family, including his foster brother who returns home after losing a leg in the Iraq War.
Author
Series
Beast and the Bethany volume 1
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Handsome Ebenezer Tweezer has lived comfortably for nearly 512 years by feeding the magical beast in his mansion's attic whatever it wants, but when the beast demands a child, they are not prepared for Bethany.--
53) Take me with you
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Raised in an Italian orphanage in the years following World War II, a biracial girl named Susanna and her best friend Pina want to be adopted but fear being separated.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
A fast-paced, impossible-to-put-down adventure awaits as the young orphan Peter and his mates are dispatched to an island ruled by the evil King Zarboff. They set sail aboard the Never Land, a ship carrying a precious and mysterious trunk in its cargo hold, and the journey quickly becomes fraught with excitement and danger.
56) Anne arrives
Author
Series
Publisher
Tundra Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
The charming first book in a new early-reader series, starring the spirited and outspoken Anne Shirley as she first arrives at Green Gables. Marilla and Matthew Cuthbert need help on their farm, so they've adopted what they hope will be a sturdy, helpful boy. Instead, Matthew finds Anne awaiting him at the train station imaginative, brash, redheaded Anne-with-an-e. With her place at the Cuthberts at risk--particularly if nosy neighbor Mrs. Lynde has...
57) Clockwork angel
Author
Series
Infernal devices volume 1
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Tessa Gray travels to England in search of her brother only to be abducted by the Dark Sisters, residents of London's Downworld, home to the city's supernatural folk, and she becomes the object of much attention--both good and bad--when it is discovered she has the power to transform at will into another person.
Publisher
Walt Disney Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
Wilbur Robinson and young inventor Lewis travel to the future to try and stop the Bowler Hat Guy from stealing Lewis's newest invention, a memory scanner. Includes deleted scenes, commentary, and other special features.
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.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
Nine-year-old Nicholas Benedict, a boy without parents and afflicted with an unfortunate nose and with narcolepsy, is sent to a new orphanage where he encounters vicious bullies, selfish adults, strange circumstances, and a mystery that could change his life forever.
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