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1241) The bootlace magician
Author
Series
Circus Mirandus volume 2
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 14
Physical Desc
409 pages : illustration ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Micah Tuttle loves living at the magical Circus Mirandus, but when a dangerous enemy from the past threatens his new home, every magician will have to be ready to fight--including Micah"--
1242) The Dutch orphan
Author
Publisher
Park Row Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
388 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"When the Nazis invade Amsterdam, singer Johanna Vos watches in horror as the vibrant music scene she loves is all but erased, her Jewish friends forbidden from performing with her onstage. Alongside her friend Jakob, Johanna helps organize the Artists' Resistance, an underground network allowing Jews to perform at house concerts hosted by their allies. When Johanna hears of a Jewish orphan headed for deportation, she does not think twice. She takes...
Author
Publisher
Black Rose Writing
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
253 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Leigh Howard's life has been ripped apart. Orphaned, she goes to live with incredibly wealthy relatives she never knew she had. Struggling to fit into her new world, she can't let go of her grief. When the police tell her the investigation in to her parents murder has hit a brick wall, she knows the only way she will ever know peace is to solve the mystery herself. With new family and friends, which includes a ghost with multiple...
1244) The starspun web
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First American edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 12
Physical Desc
360 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Tess de Sousa leaves Miss Ackerbee's orphanage to live with her new guardian in Roedeer Lodge, taking with her a fondness for scientific experimentation, a pet tarantula named Violet, and a device that allows her to travel to parallel universes.
1246) The graveyard book
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition, single-volume edition.
Physical Desc
356 pages : color illusrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
After the grisly murder of his entire family, a toddler wanders into a graveyard where the ghosts and other supernatural residents agree to raise him as one of their own.
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (480 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A story of redemption, vengeance, and self-discovery set against the birth of England, this drama follows young warrior and outsider Uhtred on a fierce mission to reclaim his birthright. The series combines real historical figures and events with fiction, retelling the history of King Alfred the Great and his desire to unite the many separate kingdoms into what would become England.
Publisher
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (768 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Annabelle comes home: Determined to keep Annabelle from wreaking more havoc, Ed and Lorraine Warren lock her "safely" behind sacred glass in their artifacts room. But an unholy night of horror awaits as Annabelle awakens the evil spirits in the room.
The nun: A priest with a haunted past and a novice on the threshold of her final vows are sent by the Vatican to investigate the death of a young nun in Romania and confront a malevolent force in the...
Author
Series
Publisher
AmazonCrossing
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
339 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"On his death bed, Lord Pembroke took great care to try to ensure the future of his beautiful, unconventional niece, Lady Jane. Her debutante ball would feature the most eligible bachelors of London society. But when the night of the dance arrives, things do not go as planned. To escape the superficial drama of the party, Jane seeks refuge in the garden of Rosewood Hall, where she discovers a gravely injured girl. With her last breath, the child beseeches...
1250) Secret letters
Author
Publisher
Disney/Hyperion Books
Pub. Date
c2012
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 12
Physical Desc
327 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Dora travels to London to meet Sherlock Holmes, who might be her biological father, and ask his help for her cousin who is being blackmailed over some stolen letters, but although Holmes dies before she arrives, a handsome young detective comes to Dora's aid.
Author
Series
Magic misfits volume 3
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
Large print edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 7
Physical Desc
380 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
New member Emily helps the Magic Misfits when a ventriloquist with a dastardly plan comes to town.
1252) The devil's paintbox
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
c2009
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 13
Physical Desc
359 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1865, fifteen-year-old Aiden and his thirteen-year-old sister Maddy, penniless orphans, leave drought-stricken Kansas on a wagon train hoping for a better life in Seattle, but find there are still many hardships to be faced.
1253) The Imagination Box
Author
Series
Imagination box volume 1
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 7
Physical Desc
231 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"A ten-year-old orphan discovers a box that can make the things he imagines become real and must keep the contraption from getting into the wrong hands with the help of a professor, his granddaughter, and a well-versed finger monkey"--
Author
Series
Palace of spies volume 2
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
371 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
An unwelcome engagement, a mysterious plot that hints at treason, and a possible murder add even more excitement to sixteen-year-old Peggy Fitzroy's life as she continues to serve as both a lady-in-waiting and confidential agent to King George of England.
1255) The crossing: a novel
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Twins Virginia and Tommy Matthews have been on their own since they were orphaned at the age of five. Twelve years later, a deadly contagion steadily wipes out entire populations and a devastating world war rages on for the cure. When Tommy is drafted for the war, Virginia and Tommy flee into the dark night. Armed with only a pistol and their fierce will to survive, the twins must navigate the dangers and wonders of this changed world as they try...
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (529 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Dark forces are moving outside the court and when a powerful Danish warlord Bloodhair attacks, Uhtred must lead Wessex's forces into battle. He captures Bloodhair's mysterious lover, the savage sorceress Skade, who throws a curse, and his world becomes blighted by tragedy.
1257) Daddy long legs
Series
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (126 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Millionaire playboy Jervis Pendleton III becomes enamored with a young woman living in a French orphanage, and decides to anonymously sponsor her college education in America. When they finally meet face-to-face two years later, romance blossoms but is complicated by Jervis's hesitance towards their age differences.
1259) Phoenix
Author
Series
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2012
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 9
Physical Desc
276 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"When their home is robbed, thirteen-year-old Phoenix Collins, an up and coming amateur dirt-bike racer, discovers a shocking mystery about his grandfather, and Phoenix must travel to China and then to Texas to find some answers"--
1260) Heidi
Series
Shirley Temple volume 1
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (90 min.) : sd., col. or b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When her aunt tires of caring for her, orphan Heidi goes to live in the Alps with her gruff grandfather, who comes to adore her. Eventually placed with another family, Heidi fights to join her grandfather again.
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