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Series of unfortunate events volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 4
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English
Description
After the sudden death of their parents, the three Baudelaire children must depend on each other and their wits when it turns out that the distant relative who is appointed their guardian is determined to use any means necessary to get their fortune. Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire are intelligent children. They are charming, and resourceful, and have pleasant facial features. Unfortunately, they are exceptionally unlucky. Imagine tales so terrible...
2) Ruby Holler
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 6
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English
Description
Thirteen-year-old fraternal twins Dallas and Florida have grown up in a terrible orphanage but their lives change forever when an eccentric but sweet older couple invites them each on an adventure, beginning in an almost magical place called Ruby Holler.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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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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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 4
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English
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.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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Tess has always been tormented by waking visions that make her question her sanity. When the orphanage she lives in burns down, she decides to face her fears and find out once and for all what is wrong with her. She believes the truth must lie with her parents, and so, armed with only an address and phone number, Tess travels to a crumbling mansion in rural Quebec, where she discovers evidence of mistreatment of mental patients. She also makes an...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 11
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English
Description
Molly Moon is back-and this time she's hypnotizing her way to the Academy Awards in Los Angeles!
Along with Rocky and Petula the pug, Molly is tracking the sinister activities of American billionaire Primo Cell, who wants to become president and take over the world. He has all the Hollywood celebrities in his power, but Molly Moon has an amazing power of her own, which even she doesn't know about....
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Welcome to the Wonderful World of Hypnotism
Molly Moon is no ordinary orphan. When she finds a mysterious old book on hypnotism, she discovers she can make people do whatever she wants. But a sinister stranger is watching her every move and he'll do anything to steal her hypnotic secret...
10) Rainbow Valley
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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Anne Shirley is grown up, has married her beloved Gilbert and now is the mother of six mischievous children. These boys and girls discover a special place all their own, but they never dream of what will happen when the strangest family moves into an old nearby mansion.--Page 4 of cover.
11) Ice like fire
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 17
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English
Description
When Primoria's lost chasm of magic is revealed, Theron and Meira are sent to discover its secrets, though Meira believes the chasm should be re-sealed while Theron believes it holds the key to protecting the world against threats like Angra.
12) Billy Creekmore
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
In 1905, ten-year-old Billy is taken from an orphanage to live with an aunt and an uncle of whose existence he was previously unaware. He enjoys his first taste of family life until his work in a coal mine and his involvement with a union bring trouble. He then joins a circus in hopes of finding his father.
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"I love Emily."—Madeleine L'Engle
Featuring one of L.M. Montgomery's most beloved characters, Emily Starr moves to New Moon Farm after the death of father, lost. But as she gets to know the people of New Moon she thinks she may end up finding a place to belong.
Orphaned after her father's death, thirteen-year-old Emily Starr is sent to live with her snobbish relatives at New Moon Farm. At first, Emily's miserable
...15) Frost like night
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 17
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English
Description
Desperate to defeat Angra in the labyrinth beneath Season Kingdoms, Meira accepts magical training from the Paisly Order.
16) Rodzina
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English
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Rodzina Clara Jadwiga Anastazya Brodski, a strong and stubborn Polish orphan, leaves Chicago on an orphan train, expecting to be adopted and turned into a slave—or worse, not to be adopted at all. As the train rattles westward, she begins to develop attachments to her fellow travelers, even the frosty orphan guardian, and to accept the idea that there might be good homes for orphans—maybe even for a big, combative Polish girl. But no placement...
17) The reptile room
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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) Foster Families
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Students explore and understand the meaning of family relationships. Great books from prompting value-oriented discussions on caring, sharing, and loving.
19) Small Bones
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 7
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English
Description
Dot, whose name reflects her stature, has always had big dreams—but her dreams have to be put on hold while she searches for the truth about her parents. She gets a job as a seamstress at a lakeside resort in rural Ontario and falls hard for Eddie, a charming local boy who is equal parts helpful and distracting as Dot investigates her past. Searching for answers to questions about her birth, Dot learns more than she ever wanted to about the...
20) Chipper
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It's 1895 in New York City. Hard times have hit, and life isn't going to get noticeably better any time soon.
Almost-thirteen-year-old Chipper Carey is running with the Midnight Rats kid gang just to survive. Chipper doesn't normally like to think beyond the present. His past has been bad enough! Ma died of consumption when he was six. His short-lived stay with Aunt Millie and Uncle Bert consisted of endless beatings. He never even knew his father....
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