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1) Heidi
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Series
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 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Catastrophes and misfortune continue to plague the Baudelaire orphans after they're sent to live with fearful Aunt Josephine who offers little protection against Count Olaf's treachery.
Author
Series
Wilderlore volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Barclay Thorne yearns for the quiet life of a mushroom farmer, but after unwittingly bonding with a beast in the forbidden Woods, he must seek Lore Keepers to break the bond and return home.
Author
Series
Ascendance trilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
In the country of Carthya, a devious nobleman engages four orphans in a brutal competition to be selected to impersonate the king's long-missing son in an effort to avoid a civil war.
7) The BFG
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Kidsnatched from her orphange by a BFG (Big Friendly Giant), who spends his life blowing happy dreams to children, Sophie concocts with him a plan to save the world from nine other man-gobbling cannybull giants.
9) 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 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
Language
English
Description
A privileged, free-spirited young girl tries to adapt to life in a strict boarding school in this delightful and enchanting children's story. When her father, Captain Crewe, goes off to fight in the Boer War, young Sara Crewe is placed into the care of Miss Minchin, the head of an exclusive private school for girls. Sara lives a wonderful life of a privileged child. The young girl's situation takes a serious turn for the worse when she unexpectedly...
12) Coal River
Author
Language
English
Description
In this vibrant new historical novel, the acclaimed author of The Plum Tree and What She Left Behind explores one young woman's determination to put an end to child labor in a Pennsylvania mining town…
As a child, Emma Malloy left isolated Coal River, Pennsylvania, vowing never to return. Now, orphaned and penniless at nineteen, she accepts a train ticket from her aunt and uncle and travels back to the rough-hewn community. Treated like a servant...
13) Back roads
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Harley Altmyer, left to raise his three younger sisters when his once-devoted mother is sent to prison, is struggling along just fine until he meets and becomes obsessed with the sexy, melancholic mother of two who lives down the road.
14) The reptile room
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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.
15) Dear Edward
Author
Language
English
Description
What does it mean not just to survive, but to truly live? 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....
17) Snakehead
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
While working with the Australian Secret Service on a dangerous mission, teenaged spy Alex Rider uncovers information about his parents.
18) Oliver Twist
Author
Language
English
Description
In nineteenth-century England, a young orphan boy lives in the squalid surroundings of a workhouse until he runs away and is captured by a gang of thieves, and is finally reunited with his long lost family.
Author
Series
Publisher
Recorded Books
Pub. Date
p2010
Language
English
Description
As summer draws to a close, a 12-year-old boy enjoys the nearby river in a rowboat he purchased with money his deceased parents left behind. When a new boarder comes to live in his home, he befriends the woman, while others keep their distance. Then, on the last day of summer, the boy and the woman embark on a final boat journey--with devastating consequences.
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