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662) Burn out
Author
Series
Burn out volume 1
Publisher
Egmont USA
Pub. Date
©2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
In the future, when the Earth is no longer easily habitable, seventeen-year-old Tora Reynolds, a girl in hiding, struggles to protect weapons developed by her father that could lead to disaster should they fall into the wrong hands.
Author
Publisher
Tuttle Pub
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
After the 1783 eruption of Japan's Mount Asama destroys crops in nearby villages, a orphaned blind girl who lives at the Daruma Temple in Takasaki invents a doll representing a famed Buddhist monk and his teachings about resilience.
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Unable to control her tendency to burst into flame, twelve-year-old Ember, a dragon transformed into a girl by her foster father, is sent to Antarctica where she tries to save ice dragons from extinction.
665) Palace of Mirrors
Author
Series
Palace chronicles volume 2
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Cecilia has always known she is the true princess of Suala, but when she and her best friend, Harper, decide to speed up her ascendancy to the throne, they find danger and many imposters who challenge her claim.
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
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"--
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, An Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
After her father is killed in a pogrom, twelve-year-old Sarah and her mother immigrate to America--but when her mother dies before they get through Ellis Island, and the authorities want to send her back to the old country, Sarah hides in the torch of the Statue of Liberty.
668) Sands of Nezza
Author
Series
Adventurers wanted volume 4
Publisher
Shadow Mountain
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
When Alexander Taylor, wizard and warrior, is summoned to the land of Nezza in order to save a friend in need, he finds a country where war is a part of daily life, where adventurers are imprisoned by the Brotherhood, and where all magic is believed to be black.
Author
Series
Boxcar children volume 126
Publisher
Albert Whitman & Co
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
The four Alden children, aged six to fourteen, volunteer at the new recycling center in town, and help uncover who is breaking in and making a mess each night.
The Aldens are volunteering at the local recycling center, where they find plenty of things that can be reused, including a pinata that Benny takes home. But when the center is vandalized,the Boxcar children have a mystery to solve. is there treasure amidst the junk?
670) Emily's quest
Author
Series
Emily Starr trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Dell Laurel-Leaf
Pub. Date
[2003]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
"Emily knows she's going to be a great writer. She also knows that she and her childhood sweetheart, Teddy Kent, will conquer the world together. But when Teddy leaves home to pursue his goal to become an artist at the School of Design in Montreal, Emily's world collapses. With Teddy gone, Emily agrees to marry a man she doesn't love ... as she tries to banish all thoughts of Teddy. In her heart, Emily must search for what being a writer really...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Questioned about a relic by a mysterious stranger, an orphaned girl working in her grandfather's curiosity shop discovers a clear glass orb in which a black orchid forms and blooms into a towering woman with the power to grant wishes, a manifestation that causes girl and orchid to become targeted by the forces that may have killed her parents.
Author
Series
Penelope Tredwell mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Albert Whitman & Company
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
At the dawn of the age of silent films, a mysterious filmmaker proposes turning Montgomery Flinch's sinister stories into motion pictures. With Monty as the star, filming begins but is plagued by a series of strange and frightening events of which only Penny can uncover the cause.
Author
Series
Molly Moon volume 1
Publisher
Ediciones SM
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 13
Language
Español
Description
Unlucky and unloved, Molly Moon, living in a dreary orphanage in a small English town, discovers a hidden talent for hypnotism and hypnotizes her way to stardom in New York City.
674) Blood and moonlight
Author
Series
Blood and moonlight volume 1
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Rising above the city of Collis is the holy Sanctum. And watching over its spires is Catrin, an orphan girl with unique skills―for she alone can spot the building’s flaws in construction before they turn deadly. But when Catrin witnesses a murderer escaping the scene of his crime, she’s pulled into a dangerous chain of events where the only certainty is that the killer will strike again. Assigned to investigate is the mysterious and brilliant...
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Fire
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Kress makes ends meet by fighting monsters, but her debts keep piling up until she is finally forced to make a deal and join a desperate rescue mission.
''From the author of Monsters Born and Made comes an action-packed South Asian inspired fantasy that will have your heart racing at every turn. Seventeen-year-old Krescent Dune is buried under the weight of her dead parents' debt and the ruinous legacy they left behind. The only...
Author
Series
Legends of the lost causes volume 1
Publisher
Henry Holt & Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
A band of orphan avengers. A cursed stone. A horde of zombie outlaws. This is Keech Blackwoods new life after Bad Whiskey Nelson descends upon the Home for Lost Causes and burns it to the ground. With his home destroyed and his family lost, Keech will have to use the lessons he learned from Pa Abner to hunt down the powerful Char Stone. Luckily, he has the help of a ragtag team of orphans. Together, theyll travel through treacherous forests, fight...
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