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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.
Author
Series
Emily Starr trilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Description
After her father's death, Emily discovers she has Cousin Jimmy and Aunt Elizabeth at New Moon Farm and other new friends.
3) The BFG
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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.
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Series
Giver quartet volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Lame and suddenly orphaned, Kira is mysteriously removed from her squalid village to live in the palatial Council Edifice, where she is expected to use her gifts as a weaver to do the bidding of the all-powerful Guardians.
6) 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. This edition of the classic tale includes illustrations and notes about the life of the times.
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Series
Dragon slippers volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Orphaned after a fever epidemic, Creel befriends a dragon and unknowingly inherits an object that can either save or destroy her kingdom.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
The Boxcar Children visit the old farmhouse where Grandfather and Aunt Jane grew up! But people in the nearby town seem to think something isn't quite right about the house. As the Boxcar Children investigate, they start to uncover secrets about the farm's past—dating all the way back to the Revolutionary War!
11) Shadow and bone
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Orphaned by the Border Wars, Alina Starkov is taken from obscurity and her only friend, Mal, to become the protegé of the mysterious Darkling, who trains her to join the magical elite in the belief that she is the Sun Summoner, who can destroy the monsters of the Fold.
12) Snow like ashes
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Series
Snow like ashes trilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
Orphaned Meira, a fierce chakram-wielding warrior from the Kingdom of Winter, must struggle to free her people from the tyranny of an opposing kingdom while also protecting her own destiny.
13) Eight cousins
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Language
English
Description
After the death of her father, thirteen-year-old Rose Campbell is sent to live with the matriarchs of her father's wealthy Boston family, whom she's never met, and, with the help of her appointed guardian, flourishes and comes to love her eccentric family.
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Series
Anne of Green Gables volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
The free-spirited and irrepressible Anne Shirley has a beautiful way of looking at the world. In thsi third volume of the Anne of Green Gables Series, Anne dreams of the woman she hopes to be when she decides to leave her beloved Prince Edward Island for college. She is eager for new adventure, but now she faces difficult choices involving her secret aspirations to be a writer and her hopes to finding the right person to marry.
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Series
Anne of Green Gables volume 1
Language
English
Description
"The books I read most as a child were Lucy Maud Montgomery." —Madeleine L'Engle
A classic for all ages, this official, unabridged edition of Anne of Green Gables features the unforgettable character of Anne Shirley and special memories, exclusively from L.M. Montgomery's granddaughter.
Redheaded orphan Anne Shirley longs for a real home, somewhere she can truly belong. When she first arrives at the Green Gables house
...16) The proposal
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Series
English garden series (Lori Wick) volume 1
Language
English
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Description
"A moving story of Christ's love at work in the most stubborn hearts."--back cover.
17) Les miserables
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Language
English
Description
"Set in the Parisian underworld and plotted like a detective story, the work follows Jean Valjean, a victim of society who has been imprisoned for 19 years for stealing a loaf of bread. A hardened criminal upon his release, he eventually reforms, becoming a successful industrialist and mayor of a northern town. Despite this he is haunted by an impulsive, regretted former crime and is pursued relentlessly by the police inspector Javert. Valjean eventually...
18) The Wolf Road
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Language
English
Description
An indomitable young woman fights to escape her past and rejoin humanity in an intimate cat-and-mouse tale of revenge and redemption, from the author of The Origin of Iris
“A white-knuckle trip through a gritty, frightening, and all-too-plausible postapocalypse.”—Paul Tremblay, author of The Pallbearers Club
Elka barely remembers a time before she knew Trapper. She was...
“A white-knuckle trip through a gritty, frightening, and all-too-plausible postapocalypse.”—Paul Tremblay, author of The Pallbearers Club
Elka barely remembers a time before she knew Trapper. She was...
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Tom has spent most of his life locked behind the cruel walls of Weatherly Orphanage, but when he learns that his parents might still be alive, Tom knows he must do what he can to find them. He can't leave Weatherly without his best friend Sarah, so arms with a single clue to his past, the word Britfield, the two make a daring escape by commandeering a hot air balloon. Now they're on the run from a famouse Scotland Yard detective and what looks like...
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Series
Sisters Grimm volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Orphans Sabrina and Daphne Grimm are sent to live with an eccentric grandmother that they have always believed to be dead.
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