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101) The empty mirror
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
Thirteen-year-old Nick, whose parents died in the 1918 flu epidemic, must find out why his mirror-image is causing mischief around their New England town and making sure Nick gets the blame.
Author
Series
Wilderlore volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
Eleven-year-old Barclay Thorne yearns for the quiet life of a mushroom farmer, but after unwittingly bonding with a beast in the forbidden Woods, he must seek Lore Keepers to break the bond and return home.
103) The shrunken head
Author
Series
Curiosity House volume 1
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
Growing up with fellow sideshow performers at an oddities museum, three orphans with unusual superhuman abilities are joined by a fourth child, a knife-thrower, with whom they search for the museum's stolen Amazonian shrunken head.
105) Dial-a-ghost
Author
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
A family of nice ghosts protects a British orphan from the diabolical plans of his evil guardians.
106) Raising Sweetness
Author
Publisher
Putnam's
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
Sweetness, one of eight orphans living with a man who is an unconventional housekeeper, learns to read and writes an important letter to improve their situation.
107) Summer of the wolves
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Books for Children
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
In the wilderness lake country of northern Minnesota, an orphaned twelve-year-old girl and a wolf pup share a rare bond.
108) A child is a child
Author
Publisher
Minedition/Penguin
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When two frogs are left orphaned, Mama Mouse mobilizes the community to use their skills to help her raise them.
109) Ark angel
Author
Series
Alex Rider adventures volume 6
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
After recovering from a near fatal gunshot wound, teenage spy Alex Rider embarks on a new mission to stop a group of eco-terrorists from sabotaging the launch of the first outer space hotel.
110) Raging star
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
Saba leads a group of guerrillas against DeMalo and the Tonton, all while contemplating DeMalo's invitation to join him in building a New Eden.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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Description
Reduced to begging and thievery in the streets of London, a thirteen-year-old orphan disguises herself as a boy and connives her way onto a British warship set for high sea adventure in search of pirates. Life as a ship's boy aboard HMS Dolphin is a dream come true for Jacky Faber. Gone are the days of scavenging for food and fighting for survival on the streets of eighteenth-century London. Instead, Jacky is becoming a skilled and respected sailor...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Seventh-grader Hercules Beal has to figure out how to fulfill his teacher's assignment of performing the Twelve Labors of Hercules in real life, and discovers important things about friendship, community, and himself along the way.
From award-winning author Gary D. Schmidt, a warm and witty novel in the tradition of The Wednesday Wars,in which a seventh grader has to figure out how to fulfill an assignment to perform the Twelve Labors of Hercules...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
Fifteen-year-old Miss Penelope Lumley, a recent graduate of the Swanburne Academy for Poor Bright Females, is hired as governess to three young children who have been raised by wolves and must teach them to behave in a civilized manner quickly, in preparation for a Christmas ball.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
When eleven-year-old Jenny arrives at her grandfather's house but is not recognized as one of the family because of a servant's intrigue, the young orphan endures a difficult fate.
Author
Series
Molly Moon volume 2
Publisher
HarperCollins
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
Believing that she has been sent to Los Angeles by her librarian friend, Lucy Logan, to stop an evil plot by the wealthy Primo Cell, Molly Moon and her friend Roger, orphans with unusual hypnotic powers, find themselves in danger from an unsuspected source.
Author
Series
Peter Nimble adventures volume 1
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Raised to be a thief, blind orphan Peter Nimble, age ten, steals from a mysterious stranger three pairs of magical eyes, that lead him to a hidden island where he must decide to become a hero or resume his life of crime.
119) Goose chase
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Rather than marry a cruel king or a seemingly dim-witted prince, an enchanted goose girl endures imprisonment, capture by several ogresses, and other dangers, before learning exactly who she is.
Author
Series
Publisher
Albert Whitman & Company
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Aldens learn about beekeeping—and find a mystery! When things go wrong during their beekeeper friend's honey harvest, the Aldens have a sweet mystery to solve. 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.
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