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Author
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.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
After being recently orphaned Rose must live with her aunts, the matriarchs of her wealthy Boston family. When Rose's guardian, Uncle Alec, returns from abroad, he takes over her care. She becomes happier and healthier while finding her place in her family of seven boy cousins and numerous aunts and uncles. Each chapter describes an adventure in Rose's life as she learns to help herself and others make good choices.
3) Eagle Strike
Author
Series
Alex Rider adventures volume 4
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
2004.
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.
5) The BFG
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
"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, or any of the other giants-- rather that the BFG-- she would have soon become breakfast. When Sophie hears that the giants are flush-bunking off to England to swollomp a few nice little chiddlers, she decides she must stop them once and for all. And the BFG is going...
6) Stormbreaker
Author
Series
Alex Rider adventures volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
After the death of the uncle who had been his guardian, fourteen-year-old Alex Rider is coerced to continue his uncle's dangerous work for Britain's intelligence agency, MI6.
Author
Series
Boxcar children volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Henry, Jessie, Vioet and Benny Alden are brothers and sisters - and tehy're orphans. The only way they can stay together is to make it on their own. One night, during a storm, the children find an old red boxcar that keeps them warm and safe. They decide to make it their home.
Author
Series
Ascendance novels volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2012.
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.
9) Ruby Holler
Author
Publisher
Joanna Cotler Books/Harper Collins Publishers
Pub. Date
2001.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old fraternal twins Dallas and Florida have grown up in a terrible orphanage but their lives change forever when an eccentric but sweet older couple invites them each on an adventure, beginning in an almost magical place called Ruby Holler.
10) The Willoughbys
Author
Series
Willoughbys volume 1
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.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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Description
Bod is an unusual boy who inhabits an unusual place - he's the only living resident of a graveyard. Raised from infancy by the ghosts, werewolves, and other cemetery denizens, Bod has learned the antiquated customs of his guardians' time as well as their ghostly teachings - such as the ability to Fade so mere mortals cannot see him. Can a boy raised by ghosts face the wonders and terrors of the worlds of both the living and the dead? And then there...
12) Beyond the grave
Author
Series
The 39 clues. Main series volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
Bestselling author Jude Watson takes Amy and Dan on a thrill-packed ride for the 4th installment of The 39 Clues series.Betrayed by their cousins, abandoned by their uncle, and with only the slimmest hint to guide them, fourteen-year old Amy Cahill and her younger brother, Dan, rush off to Egypt on the hunt for 39 Clues that lead to a source of unimaginable power. But when they arrive, Amy and Dan get something completely unexpected - a message...
14) Snakehead
Author
Series
Alex Rider adventures volume 7
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
2007.
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.
15) Storm warning
Author
Series
The 39 clues. Main series volume 9
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...
16) In too deep
Author
Series
The 39 clues. Main series volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
Amy and Dan cross the oceans on the trail of a famous aviator, but they find more than they're looking for. Their enemies are becoming more vicious, and the truths they discover more crushing than ever.
17) The black circle
Author
Series
The 39 clues. Main series volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
Where are Amy and Dan Cahill? The two kids were last seen in Egypt, hunting for one of the 39 Clues that could make them the most powerful people on earth. But no one has seen the siblings since. Has the ruthless Irina Spasky finally tracked them down? Or worse ... the Madrigals?
18) Point Blank
Author
Series
Alex Rider adventures volume 2
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
2002.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Alex continues his work as a spy for the British MI6, investigating an exclusive school for boys in the French Alps.
19) The sword thief
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
Amy and Dan Cahill have been located once again, this time in the company of the notoriously unreliable Alistair. Spies report that Amy and Dan seem to be tracking the life of one of the most powerful fighters the world has ever known. If this fearsome warrior was a Cahill, his secrets are sure to be well-guarded.
20) The cruel prince
Author
Series
Folk of the air volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
Jude, seventeen and mortal, gets tangled in palace intrigues while trying to win a place in the treacherous High Court of Faerie, where she and her sisters have lived for a decade.
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