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Willoughbys volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 4
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Description
In this tongue-in-cheek take on classic themes in children's literature, the four Willoughby children set about to become "deserving orphans" after their neglectful parents embark on a treacherous around-the-world adventure, leaving them in the care of an odious nanny.
3) Gingersnap
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 4
Description
When her brother Rob, a Navy cook, goes missing in action during World War II, Jayna, desperate for family, leaves upstate New York and their cranky landlady, accompanied by a turtle and a ghost, to seek their grandmother, who Rob believes may live in Brooklyn. Includes soup recipes.
4) Heat
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 9
Description
Pitching prodigy Michael Arroyo is on the run from social services after being banned from playing Little League baseball because rival coaches doubt he is only twelve years old and he has no parents to offer them proof.
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 14
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Description
Through twists and turns of fate, orphaned Mary seeks knowledge of life, love, and especially what lies beyond her walled village and the surrounding forest, where dwell the Unconsecrated, aggressive flesh-eating people who were once dead.
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 9
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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.
7) Bruised
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 12
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Description
Daya Wijesinghe sees a bruise as a mixture of comfort and control, but joining a roller derby team pushes her toward big truths about love, loss, strength, and healing.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 10
Description
After inheriting her uncle's homesteading claim in Montana, sixteen-year-old orphan Hattie Brooks travels from Iowa in 1917 to make a home for herself and encounters some unexpected problems related to the war being fought in Europe. Includes readers guide and a short interview with Kirby Larson following the bibliography.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 17
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Description
Upon the death of her father, seventeen-year-old Charlotte struggles to keep the family's woolen mill running in the face of an overwhelming mortgage and what the local villagers believe is a curse, but when a man capable of spinning straw into gold appears on the scene she must decide if his help is worth the price.
10) Slob
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Description
Picked on, overweight genius Owen tries to invent a television that can see the past to find out what happened the day his parents were killed.
11) Me and Billy
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Formats
Description
After escaping the orphanage where they have spent their lives together, two boys become assistants to a con artist, and while Possum objects to the lying, stealing, and cheating, Billy only cares about making money and taking life easy.
12) Tink
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Series
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Farrar Straus Giroux
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 3
Description
Feeling as though he does not belong there, Tink leaves Crow Cove, only to return with the drunken Burd, who teaches Tink to fish and to have confidence in himself and his place in the community.
Author
Series
Children of Crow Cove volume 1
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 4
Description
After the death of her grandmother, a young orphaned girl leaves her house by the cove and begins a journey which leads her to people and experiences that exemplify the wisdom her grandmother had shared with her.
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Series
Bloody Jack adventures volume 7
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 18
Description
In 1806, star-crossed lovers Jacky Faber and Jaimy Fletcher are kidnapped by British Naval Intelligence and forced to embark on yet another daring mission--this time to search for sunken Spanish gold off the Florida coast.
17) Enchanted glass
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
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Description
After his grandfather dies, Andrew Hope inherits a house and surrounding land in an English village, but things become very complicated when young orphan Aidan shows up and suddenly a host of variously magical townsfolk and interlopers start intruding on their lives.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
860L
Description
Through letters to his little sister, who is living in a different foster home, sixth-grader Lonnie, also known as "Locomotion," keeps a record of their lives while they are apart, describing his own foster family, including his foster brother who returns home after losing a leg in the Iraq War.
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