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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Focuses on the malicious practices of the Clarissa Frayne Institute for Parentally Challenged Boys. When Cosmo Hill enters Satellite City, he soon realizes that the institute is nothing like an orphanage and actually uses boys to test products for profit. Cosmo ends up nearly dead one day after these tests and is almost taken away by Parasites, creatures that feed on the soul. That's when the Supernaturalists rescue him and adopt him. Follow them...
Author
Series
A series of unfortunate events volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
After narrowly escaping the menacing clutches of the dastardly Count Olaf, the three Baudelaire orphans are taken in by a kindly herpetologist with whom they live happily for an all-too-brief time.
Author
Series
A series of unfortunate events volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Accidents, evil plots, and general misfortune abound when, in their continuing search for a home, the Beaudelaire orphans are sent to live and work in a sinister lumber mill.
Author
Series
A series of unfortunate events volume 7
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
Under a new government program based on the saying "It takes a village to raise a child," the Baudelaire orphans are adopted by an entire town, with disastrous results.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
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.
Author
Series
A series of unfortunate events volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
The woeful saga of the Baudelaire orphans continues as evil Count Olaf discovers their whereabouts at Esme Squalor's seventy-one bedroom penthouse and concocts a new plan for stealing their family fortune.
Author
Series
Peter & the Starcatchers volume 1
The starcatchers trilogy volume 1
Never Land book
Peter and the Starcatchers volume 1
The starcatchers trilogy volume 1
Never Land book
Peter and the Starcatchers volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
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Soon after Peter, an orphan, sets sail from England on the ship Never Land, he befriends and assists Molly, a young Starcatcher, whose mission is to guard a trunk of magical stardust from a greedy pirate and the native inhabitants of a remote island.
Author
Series
A series of unfortunate events volume 8
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
On the run after being falsely accused of murder, the three Baudelaire orphans find themselves in the Heimlich Hospital, with the evil Count Olaf in close pursuit.
11) 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
In the first 39 Clues book, Amy and Dan Cahill discovered that they're part of one of the most powerful families in human history. Passing up a pile of hush money, the siblings set out to uncover the 39 clues which would reveal the source of their family's awesome power. Here, in the sixth book, the siblings continue to uncover one clue at a time, encountering Cahill family branches and the mysterious Madrigals in the process.
Amy and Dan cross the...
Author
Series
Medieval mysteries (Avi) volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
Falsely accused of plotting to overthrow King Claudio, scholarly Mangus the magician, along with his street-smart servant boy, Fabrizio, face deadly consequences unless they can track down the real traitor by the stroke of midnight.
13) Train I ride
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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Description
Traveling from California to Chicago after her mother dies of a drug overdose and her grandmother of lung cancer, thirteen-year-old Rydr meets other passengers on the train and attempts to accept her own situation.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2001]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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Description
In her fictionalized journal, eleven-year-old Minnie Swift recounts how her family dealt with the difficult times during the Depression and how the arrival of an orphan from Texas changed their lives in Indianapolis just before Christmas 1932.
15) Jinx's magic
Author
Series
Jinx trilogy (Sage Blackwood) volume 2
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
"A young wizard's apprentice, Jinx, learns that his forest home, the Urwald, is under threat, and to save it he must travel to a new land"--
16) The Wolf Tree
Author
Series
Clockwork dark volume 2
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Ray Cobb and the rest of the Ramblers must cross into the Gloaming and destroy the Gog's machine, which has started to spread a darkness over the land.
Author
Series
Sisters Grimm volume 1
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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Description
Orphans Sabrina and Daphne Grimm are sent to live with an eccentric grandmother that they have always believed to be dead.
Author
Series
Boxcar children volume 120
Publisher
Albert Whitman
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
When the Aldens agree to watch the house of a local author who has written a book about a vampire, they end up investigating activities that are suspiciously similar to those in his book.
Author
Series
Boxcar children volume 12
Publisher
A. Whitman
Pub. Date
[1967]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
The Alden family rents a houseboat to drift down the river and encounters a mystery in the little towns along the river involving a fast black car.
Author
Series
Boxcar children volume 148
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Aldens are visiting a small town known for its harvest festival. The town is beautiful in the fall, but rumors of the harvest moon and a werewolf are keeping people away. Can the Aldens get to the bottom of whoor whatis causing such a stir?
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