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41) The Auslander
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Children's Books
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
German soldiers take Peter from a Warsaw orphanage, and soon he is adopted by Professor Kaltenbach, a prominent Nazi, but Peter forms his own ideas about what he sees and hears and decides to take a risk that is most dangerous in 1942 Berlin.
42) Dear Emma
Author
Series
Meade family stories volume 2
Publisher
HarperCollins Children's Books
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
In her letters to a Vermont friend, eighth grader Dossi, a Russian, Jewish immigrant living in the Lower East Side of New York City in 1910, shares her thoughts about her new brother-in-law, the diphtheria epidemic, and the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire.
43) The speaker
Author
Series
Sea of ink and gold volume 2
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
"Sefia and Archer's adventure continues as Archer searches for a way to combat his nightmares of his time with the impressors and Sefia becomes more and more consumed by her study of the Book"--
44) The ghost prison
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Fire
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Fifteen-year-old Billy guards a castle prison. But it isn't just criminals he'll be guarding--the ghosts of executed prisoners haunt the place"--
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.
Author
Series
Children of the Red King volume 5
Publisher
Orchard Books
Pub. Date
[2006]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
When an ancient enchanter is released from the grounds of Bloor's Academy, threatening both of Charlie Bone's parents, the only way Charlie and his friends can defeat him is by finding the red king himself.
Author
Series
Publisher
American Girl Pub
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
When Marie-Grace discovers a baby outside her father's office and a slave catcher claims the boy, she helps place him at a white orphanage where she becomes a volunteer, as her friendship with Cécile grows and she hears rumors of yellow fever.
Author
Series
Ferals volume 2
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
When the evil Mother of Flies emerges from the defeat of the Spinning Man and begins searching for the last vital piece of Blackstone's legacy, Caw, the last survivor of his line, teams up with his friend Lydia and loyal crow allies to protect their city.
Author
Series
League of beastly dreadfuls volume 1
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Anastasia, nearly eleven, is snatched from her elementary school and sent to live at a former insane asylum with two great-aunts she had never met after being told that her parents died in a tragic vacuum cleaner accident.
Author
Series
Young samurai volume 4
Publisher
Puffin
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
On the run with no sensei to guide him, Jack Fletcher journeys along the treacherous road to the port of Nagasaki, where he hopes to find a ship home to England.
52) Jade fire gold
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
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Description
In an empire on the brink of war . . . Ahn is no one, with no past and no family. Altan is a lost heir, his future stolen away as a child. When they meet, Altan sees in Ahn a path to reclaiming the throne. Ahn sees a way to finally unlock her past and understand her lethal magical abilities. But they may have to pay a far deadlier price than either could have imagined.
Author
Series
Secrets of Dripping Fang volume 8
Publisher
Harcourt, Inc
Pub. Date
[2007]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Followed by an assassin and her poisonous snakes, ten-year-old twins Wally and Cheyenne Shluffmuffin try to get from their Ohio home to the FBI training facility in Quantico, Virginia, to get help in freeing human hostages from the onts.
54) Orphan!
Author
Publisher
WestSide Books
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Homer suddenly learns that he is adopted and sets out from 1930s Iowa for New York City with his best friend, Jamie, aided by friends old and new as he tries to learn about his origins and, in the process, discovers what family really means.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"In 1859, eleven-year-old Nell goes to live with her aunt, Kate Warne, the first female detective for Pinkerton's National Detective Agency. Nell helps her aunt solve cases, including a mystery surrounding Abraham Lincoln, and the mystery of what happened to Nell's own father"--
Author
Series
City of orphans volume 1
Publisher
Listening Library
Pub. Date
♭2014.
Language
English
Description
In 1870s London, a young orphan girl becomes the apprentice to a man who traps monsters for a living.
Author
Series
Boxcar children great adventures volume 3
Publisher
Albert Whitman & Company
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
"The Aldens continue their quest to return lost artifacts. But halfway around the world, trouble seems closer than ever. Is someone they know working for the rival Argents?"--Back cover.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"The year is 414 of the Xin Dynasty, and chaos abounds. A puppet empress is on the throne. The realm has fractured into three factions and three warlordesses hoping to claim the continent for themselves. But Zephyr knows it’s no contest. Orphaned at a young age, Zephyr took control of her fate by becoming the best strategist of the land and serving under Xin Ren, a warlordess whose loyalty to the empress is double-edged―while Ren’s...
Author
Series
Audacity Jones volume 2
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Audacity Jones and her best friend, Bimmy, are on their way to New York City, with Cypher, who is now a detective in the Pinkerton National Detective Agency, and their assignment involves Harry Houdini and the illusion he is planning--and it will take all of Audie's skills, and the help of her clever cat Min, to prevent the performance from being sabotaged.
Author
Publisher
Walden Pond Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
"When Great Aunt Beauregard announces her intentions to bring budding engineer John into the family business of coffin manufacturing for the rest of his natural life--and, worse, to teach his sister Page to embalm--John decides enough is enough, and the two of them head out on the lam, maybe joining the circus"--
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