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Author
Series
Boxcar children volume 98
Publisher
Albert Whitman & Co
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
63) Jane
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
In this contemporary retelling of "Jane Eyre," an orphaned nanny becomes entranced with her magnetic and brooding employer, a rock star with a torturous secret from his past.
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Nicki Demere is an orphan and a kleptomaniac, making her the perfect girl to portray the Trevors' daughter in witness protection, but she soon learns that the biggest threat to her new family's security comes from her own past.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
When twelve-year-old Hugo, an orphan living and repairing clocks within the walls of a Paris train station in 1931, meets a mysterious toyseller and his goddaughter, his undercover life and his biggest secret are jeopardized.
66) Vespers rising
Series
The 39 clues. Main series volume 11
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Amy Cahill and her younger brother Dan thought they could return to their regular lives when they found the 39 clues. But the Vespers, powerful enemies, will stop at nothing to get the clues. And with the Vespers rising, the world is in jeopardy.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The Boxcar Children are helping at a pizzeria, but it seems that someone is trying to shut it down. Can they find out who is causing trouble? Adapted from Gertrude Chandler Warner's story of the same name, this early reader allows children to start reading by themselves with a Boxcar Children classic."--Amazon
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
"Destiny leads 11-year-old Cady to a peanut butter factory, a family of children searching for their own Talents, and a Talent Thief who will alter her life forever"--Provided by publisher. Includes cake recipes.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
When ten-year-old orphan Peter Augustus Duchene encounters a fortune teller in the marketplace one day and she tells him that his sister, who is presumed dead, is in fact alive, he embarks on a remarkable series of adventures as he desperately tries to find her.
70) Paradise on fire
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Bronx middle-grader Addy, who struggles with a family tragedy by drawing maps and studying mazes, joins other city youngsters on a wilderness adventure in California that turns deadly when wildfires erupt.
Author
Series
Boxcar children volume 129
Publisher
Albert Whitman
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
The four Alden children, aged six to fourteen, uncover a mystery while volunteering at a food pantry for the needy.
Author
Series
Boxcar children volume 111
Publisher
A. Whitman
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
When the Alden children accompany their grandfather on a trip to Seattle, they discover clues throughout the city, seemingly planted just for them.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Children's Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
At Brassmere Academy for the Extraordinary, twelve-year-old Plum and her best friends share adventures in dreams each night, but when Artem disappears they discover alarming secrets about Brassmere and its intentions.
77) Velvet
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
In Victorian London, orphaned Velvet leaves her backbreaking job in a steam laundry for the mysterious and exciting world of famed spiritualist Madame Savoya, who harbors dangerous secrets.
Author
Series
Monsters of Rookhaven volume 1
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
When two orphans break through the magic shield that is keeping an extraordinary family of monsters safe from those who would do them harm, they are all put in grave danger.
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