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Author
Series
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this tongue-in-cheek take on classic themes in children's literature, the four Willoughby children set about to become "deserving orphans" after their neglectful parents embark on a treacherous around-the-world adventure, leaving them in the care of an odious nanny.
3) The BFG
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
Captured by a giant! The BFG is no ordinary bone-crunching giant. He is far too nice and jumbly. It's lucky for Sophie that he is. Had she been carried off in the middle of the night by the Bloodbottler, the Fleshlumpeater, the Bonecruncher, or any of the other giants -- rather than the BFG -- she would have soon become breakfast. When Sophie hears that they are flush-bunking off in England to swollomp a few nice little chiddlers, she decides she...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
In futuristic Satellite City, fourteen-year-old Cosmo Hill escapes from his abusive orphanage and teams up with three other people who share his unusual ability to see supernatural creatures, and together they determine the nature and purpose of the swarming blue Parasites that are invisible to most humans.
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2022
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
Logan, an undersized twelve-year-old orphan with a photographic memory and no filter, discovers that his foster parents are superheroes in grave danger and only Logan's highly logical mind can save them.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Formats
Description
CLASSIC FICTION. Anne Shirley is unforgettable, and this beautifully packaged edition of L.M. Montgomery s classic novel is as memorable as its heroine. When Anne Shirley arrives at Green Gables, she surprises everyone: first of all, she s a girl, even though Marilla Cuthbert and her brother Matthew specifically asked for an orphan boy to help around the farm. And second of all, she s not just any girl: she has bright red hair, a wild imagination,...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
Newbery Honor Book: 2003.
A troublesome twelve-year-old orphan, staying with an elderly artist who needs her, remembers the only other time she was happy in a foster home, with a family that truly seemed to care about her.
10) The false prince
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.
11) The empty mirror
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Children's Books
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Nick, whose parents died in the 1918 flu epidemic, must find out why his mirror-image is causing mischief around their New England town and making sure Nick gets the blame.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sabina and Daphne Grimm enter the hideout of the Scarlet Hand in order to rescue their parents who had been kidnapped a year before, but their attempts are thwarted by the most famous fairy tale character in the world.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Falsely accused of plotting to overthrow King Claudio, scholarly Mangus the magician, along with his street-smart servant boy, Fabrizio, face deadly consequences unless they can track down the real traitor by the stroke of midnight.
Author
Pub. Date
2021
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
A sequel to Winterborne Home for Vengeance and Valor finds April unraveling family secrets, creepy legends and mysterious identities when setbacks in her plans with Gabriel force her to fight on behalf of the orphans who have become her family.
Author
Pub. Date
2020
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
Princess Noa, aged eleven, Prince Julian, sixteen, and Princess Mite, five, flee their palace when a coup leads to their mother's death, and unlock a long-forgotten magic to reclaim the stolen throne.
17) Storm warning
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
Throughout the hunt for the 39 Clues, Amy and Dan have encountered some of the darkest aspects of history... and had to deal with the role their family played. But are they ready for the truth? In this thrilling ninth installment, Amy and Dan hit the high seas as they follow the trail of some infamous ancestors to track down a long lost treasure. However, the real prize isn't hidden in a chest. It's the discovery of the Madrigals' most dangerous secret...
Author
Publisher
ABRAMS
Pub. Date
2014
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
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
Pub. Date
2021
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
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Ana Dakkar is 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. Ana's parents died while on a scientific expedition two years ago, and the only family's she's got left is her older brother, Dev, also a student at HP. Ana's freshman year culminates with the class's weekend trial at sea, the details of which have been kept secret....
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