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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
970L
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English
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Mary is an unhappy orphan forced to live in the home of a wealthy guardian, a busy man who has no time for her. But when Mary meets her guardian's mysterious son, and discovers a secret garden hidden on the estate, life for everyone is never quite the same.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.6 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
CLASSIC FICTION (CHILDREN'S / TEENAGE). Five years after coming to Green Gables, Anne is 'half past sixteen' and about to start teaching at her old school, with high hopes of inspiring youthful hearts and minds with ideals and ambitions. But some of her pupils have quite other ideas. Meanwhile, the young orphan Davy and the Avonlea Improvement Society bring their own headaches for a headstrong girl trying to grow up. Ages 9+
3) Oliver Twist
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 11.3 - AR Pts: 33
Language
English
Description
Deals with the adventures of a young orphan boy trying to survive amid greed and poverty in 19th-century London.
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Language
English
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The teenage son of an Appalachian single mother who dies when he is eleven uses his good looks, wit, and instincts to survive foster care, child labor, addiction, disastrous loves, and crushing losses.
Set in the mountains of southern Appalachia, this is the story of a boy born to a teenaged single mother in a single-wide trailer, with no assets beyond his dead father's good looks and copper-colored hair, a caustic wit, and a fierce talent for survival....
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
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Adult - Books Made Into Movies
Adult - Magic Realism Fiction
Adult - Shocking Plot Twists
Adult - Survival Stories (Fiction and Non-Fiction)
Adult - Magic Realism Fiction
Adult - Shocking Plot Twists
Adult - Survival Stories (Fiction and Non-Fiction)
Description
Winner of the 2002 Man Booker Prize for Fiction Life of Pi is at once a realistic, rousing adventure and a meta-tale of survival that explores the redemptive power of storytelling and the transformative nature of fiction. It's a story, as one character puts it, to make you believe in God. A fabulist novel that combines the delight of Kipling's Just So Stories with the metaphysical adventure of Jonah and the Whale.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 17
Lexile measure
560L
Language
English
Description
By mistake, Anne, an eleven-year-old orphan, is sent to live with a lonely, middle-aged brother and sister on a farm on Prince Edward Island in 1878 and proceeds to make an indelible impression on everyone.
8) Pollyanna
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
A young orphan, Pollyanna Whittier, is sent to live with her wealthy and stern Aunt Polly. Yet rather than letting her seemingly gloomy situation get her down, the high-spirited girl is dtermined to see the best in everything. Playing what she and her father used to call "The Glad Game," Pollyanna always finds something to be happy about. Her hopeful outlook brings joy to the dour New England town she now calls home, and even to Aunt Polly - inspiring...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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A trustee of the John Grier orphanage has offered to send Judy Abbott to college. The only requirements are that she must write to him every month, and that she can never know who he is. Judy's life at college is a whirlwind of friends, classes, parties, and a growing friendship with the handsome Jervis Pendleton. With so much happening in her life, Judy can scarcely stop writing to the mysterious "Daddy-Long-Legs"!
10) The wide window
Author
Series
A series of unfortunate events volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Catastrophes and misfortune continue to plague the Baudelaire orphans after they're sent to live with fearful Aunt Josephine who offers little protection against Count Olaf's treachery.
11) The BFG
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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Adult - Books Made Into Movies
Kids - Fantasy
Kids - Suggestions for Second Graders
Kids - Suggestions for Third Graders
Kids - Fantasy
Kids - Suggestions for Second Graders
Kids - Suggestions for Third Graders
Description
Kidsnatched from her orphanage by a BFG (Big Friendly Giant), who spends his life blowing happy dreams to children, Sophie concocts with him a plan to save the world from nine other man-gobbling cannybull giants.
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Emily Starr trilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Emily's father dies, leaving her an orphan, she is sent to live with a stern aunt in Prince Edward Island, where her resourcefulness and love of writing help her adjust to a new way of life.
14) No name
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English
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This novel about the stigma of illegitimacy, rejected as immoral by the critics of its day, is now seen as a work of outstanding social insight, showing Collins at the height of his powers.
15) Heat
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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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.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
A young girl in a London boarding school is impoverished by her father's death and made to work as a servant. She struggles to remain a "little princess" on the inside, no matter what her position. Her patience and forebearance are rewarded when she is rescued by a mysterious benefactor.
17) The reptile room
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.
18) Leap of faith
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Language
English
Description
In her fifty-second bestselling novel, Danielle Steel weaves a compelling story of the power of lies, the misuse of trust — and of one woman's triumph over a devastating betrayal.
Marie-Ange Hawkins has the kind of childhood that most people dream of. Freedom, love, security in a beautiful old French château. But when Marie-Ange is just eleven, a tragic accident marks the end of her idyllic life. Orphaned and alone, she is sent to America,...
Marie-Ange Hawkins has the kind of childhood that most people dream of. Freedom, love, security in a beautiful old French château. But when Marie-Ange is just eleven, a tragic accident marks the end of her idyllic life. Orphaned and alone, she is sent to America,...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
820L
Language
English
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Adult - Best Children's Novels for Adults
Kids - Chapter Books (Staff Favorites)
Kids - Ghost Stories
Kids - Suggestions for Sixth Graders
Kids - Chapter Books (Staff Favorites)
Kids - Ghost Stories
Kids - Suggestions for Sixth Graders
Description
After the grisly murder of his entire family, a toddler wanders into a graveyard where the ghosts and other supernatural residents agree to raise him as one of their own.
20) Eight Cousins
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English
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Eight Cousins (1875) is a novel by American author, feminist, and abolitionist Louisa May Alcott. Based on her experience of being raised by a father dedicated to education reform, and grounded in her radical beliefs on the role of women in society, Eight Cousins is a masterpiece of children's literature that explores themes of family, death, and perseverance.
Rose Campbell is a young girl when her parents pass away. Orphaned, she is taken to the...
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