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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.
Author
Series
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.
3) The BFG
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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.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
970L
Language
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
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.
Author
Series
Ascendance novels volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
In the country of Carthya, a devious nobleman engages four orphans in a brutal competition to be selected to impersonate the king's long-missing son in an effort to avoid a civil war.
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Series
Molly Moon volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
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Unlucky and unloved, Molly Moon, living in a dreary orphanage in a small English town, discovers a hidden talent for hypnotism and hypnotizes her way to stardom in New York City.
8) At My Door
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Language
English
Description
Deliveries do not come late on a school night. They don't come in a speeding car. And they don't cry. When Poppy Campbell's dad opens the front door to find a small, very distressed child clinging to a green blanket, the family try their hardest to do the right thing. They make the little girl comfortable, call the police, and look after her while the authorities search for her family. --Provided by publisher.
9) 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.
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) 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.
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.
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Language
English
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Description
In this tour de force of psychological unease, now a major motion picture starring Charlotte Gainsbourg and Sinead Cusack, McEwan excavates the ruins of childhood and uncovers things that most adults have spent a lifetime forgetting or denying. "Possesses the suspense and chilling impact of Lord of the Flies."--Washington Post Book World.
14) 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...
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
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
Traces the parallel stories of estranged Irish sisters Sybil and Nula and American orphans Naomi and Lizzie, whose respective explorations into their identities and struggles with misfortune are told in rotating voices.
17) Of human bondage
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.3 - AR Pts: 48
Language
English
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Description
A club-footed orphan struggles for independence, his intellectual development and his attempt to become an artist.
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Language
English
Description
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....
19) Angel
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Language
English
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Orphaned at a young age, the lives of Rosie, Gavin, Nell, and Kevin are irrevocably intertwined. Rising from poverty, all four go on to stunning success: Rosie as an award-winning costume designer; Gavin as a world-renowned Hollywood actor; Nell as the head of a global public relations company; and Kevin as the head of the NYPD Crime Intelligence Commission and a leader in the fight against organized crime. Told with the broad scope and narrative...
20) You can't hide
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Series
Shadow House volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
630L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Poppy, Marcus, Dash, Dylan, and Azumi are trapped inside of Larkspur House, a sinister estate haunted by the ghosts of the orphaned children who have gone before, and the house is using their fears and secrets to pick them off one by one--because nobody gets out of the shadow house alive.
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