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61) Forever Home
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Being in a foster home, awaiting to go back home or to be adopted is hard. What's harder is doing it when you're seven! Lindsey, a young seven-year-old, tells of her adventure in trying to find a "Forever Home" wherever that may be. She'll make you laugh, and maybe shed a tear as she tells her story. She wants everyone to know, that they too may find their "Forever Home" soon. Just gotta keep your chin up!
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 6
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"In the little town of Blackbird Tree live two orphan girls: one Naomi Deane, brimming with curiosity, and her best friend, Lizzie Scatterding, who could talk the ears off a cornfield. Naomi has a knack for being around when trouble happens. For she knows all the peculiar people in town--like Crazy Cora and Witch Wiggins and Mr. Farley. But then, one day, a boy drops out of a tree. The strangely charming Finn boy. Then the Dingle Dangle man appears,...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 8
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A one-of-a-kind story of heart, humor, and finding one's place in the universe.
Prez knows that the best way to keep track of things is to make a list. That's important when you have a grandfather who is constantly forgetting. And it's even more important when your grandfather can't care for you anymore and you have to go live with a foster family out in the country.
Prez is still learning to fit in at his new home when he answers the door to...
64) Bank Job
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Nell has been in foster homes all her life-most of them have been horrible. She finally gets moved to a home she likes, and the ministry threatens to close it down unless an expensive renovation is made to the house. Nell and the two boys in the home, Billy and Tom, decide to raise the funds themselves. How do kids get large amounts of money quickly? By robbing banks, of course. Their first few heists are successful, but when they almost get caught...
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After eight-year-old Kevin Mason's mother abandons him, he takes refuge in his fantasy of becoming Knuckles McGraw, a tough cowboy roaming the plains on his legendary horse, Burlington Northern. But instead of riding the range, Kevin is stuck in a foster home with a pierced and tattooed teenager named Ice and a mute girl named Breezy.
While he waits to be claimed by the father he barely remembers or the mother who left him a good-bye note in his...
66) What I Call Life
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 8
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I haven't even explained yet about the Knitting Lady. Who is she? How did I wind up on her doorstep? How did I meet the other girls who became my friends-no, they became more than friends, despite the fact that they drove me absolutely crazy. I need to take a giant step back, return myself to the police car and explain how I, Cal Lavender, came to be living a life that wasn't my own.
A witty and moving first novel that uncovers another side of the...
67) A Home for Us
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This is the fictionalized story of "Yula", a character inspired by a real girl Sharon Jennings met in her visits to the Hope Development Centre in Kenya. When four-year-old Yula is discovered by the orphanage director "Mum" and introduced to a caring home and school, her abilities develop as do her understandings of how to care for others. When a new child enters the orphanage, at first Yula is angry and jealous, but soon she warmly welcomes Mutuku...
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Molly Moon volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 13
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Molly Moon's hypnotic eyes give her the power to stop the world and travel through time. Now Molly makes a stunning new discovery - she's a mind reader! But can her incredible talents help to rescue her lost twin from future? And will Molly be a match for the maniacal Princess Fang and her crazy mind machine?
70) The End: Book 13
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A series of unfortunate events volume 13
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 9
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Lost at sea, the Baudelaire orphans, along with the evil Count Olaf, wash up on the shore of an island populated by an oddly placid group of inhabitants, and they try to decide whether or not they are truly safe.
71) Gib rides home
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 9
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Despite the harsh treatment he has endured at the Lovell House orphanage, ten-year-old Gib Whittaker manages to maintain his hopeful outlook when he is "farmed out" to help with the horses of a wealthy banker in 1908.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 6
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A group of foster children build a home of their own.
A ghost saved twelve-year-old Maddie's life when she was an infant, her Granny Lane claims, so Maddie must always remember that she is special. But it's hard to feel special when you've spent your life shuffled from one foster home to another. And now that she's at the East Tennessee Children's Home, Maddie feels even less special. She longs for a place to call home. She even has a "book of houses"...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 5
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A long undisturbed bedroom. A startling likeness. A mysterious friend.
When twelve-year-old Prince Lev Lvov goes to live with his aunt at Falcon House, he takes his rightful place as heir to the Lvov family estate. Prince Lev dreams of becoming a hero of Russia like his great ancestors. But he'll discover that dark secrets haunt this house. Prince Lev is the only one who can set them free-will he be the hero his family needs?
This title has Common...
74) Freckles
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Orphaned and maimed, Freckles' bitterness about his fate is lessened when he is hired to guard a stretch of lumber in the wild Limberlost, and, after meeting the beautiful "Swamp Angel," he determines to find out about his past.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
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The Invention of Hugo Cabret meets True Grit in this heartfelt novel of resilience, hope, and discovering a family where you least expect it, from award-winning author Robert Sharenow.
At the dawn of the twentieth century, thousands of immigrants are arriving in the promised land of New York City. Twelve-year-old Sarah has always dreamed of America, a land of freedom and possibility. In her small village she stares at a postcard of the Statue of...
76) Return to Sender
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A feisty heroine faces off against outlaws, bullying relatives, and a Minnesota winter'- ARC review 'Humorously highlights a forgotten chapter of American history--a time when babies came in the mail. ' -ARC review 'Hermione Granger meets True Grit-an engaging heroine battles the worst relatives since the Dursleys of Harry Potter.' -ARC review The year is 1913, and 2-year-old Matty Cooper is being sent on a train journey from Minnesota to Wisconsin...
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Heidi has captivated and enthralled readers since it was first, published. Heidi, an orphan, has to move in with her stern, demanding grandfather in the Swiss Alps, and just as she begins to feel at home, she finds herself back in a city caring for a sick relative. This classic coming of age story explores the balance between freedom and family responsibilities. The joyously triumphant resolution will stays with the reader for a long time.
78) Taken Away
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Victor, Isaac, Vanessa, and Sara have been taken away from their mother. They've been forced to leave behind their home, school, friends, and worst of all, each other. Vanessa and Sara have been placed in the same foster home, but Victor and Isaac have be
79) Midnight Train
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Enchanter's child volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 11
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In the second magical volume of the Enchanter's Child duology, the bestselling author of the Septimus Heap series, Angie Sage, crafts a stunning finale filled with humor, drama, and nonstop action, just right for fantasy-adventure lovers.
In the first book of the Enchanter's Child duology, Alex discovered the truth: Not only does she possess magical powers but her father is Hagos RavenStarr, who was once the king's Enchanter.
Alex is pursued by...
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Molly Moon volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 12
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Molly Moon, reunited with her parents, is hypnotized by a mysterious turbaned gardener and eventually transported to India, where she meets not only a maharajah with a speech defect but also former versions of herself.
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