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The 39 clues. Main series volume 10
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 9
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Amy and Dan Cahill face their greatest challenge on their quest to find the thirty-nine clues, but in order to discover the secrets of their lineage they will have to make a choice that could impact the world's future.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 9
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In the future, in a place called Satellite City, fourteen-year-old Cosmo Hill enters the world, unwanted by his parents. He's sent to the Clarissa Frayne Institute for Parentally Challenged Boys Freight class. At Clarissa Frayne, the boys are put ot work by the state, testing highly dangerous products. At the end of most days, they are covered in burns, bruises and sores. Cosmo realizes that if he doesn't escape, he will die at this so-called orphanage....
65) Heidi
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
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"Orphaned Heidi is sent to live with her grumpy grandfather in the Alps, but soon grows to love the mountains. When she is taken to Frankfurt, her homesickness and a new friendship with a disabled girl called Clara lead to an extraordinary turn of events"--
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 26
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Pak Jun Do is the haunted son of a lost mother - a singer "stolen" to Pyongyang - and an influential father who runs a work camp for orphans. Superiors in the state soon recognize the boy's loyalty and keen instincts. Considering himself "a humble citizen of the greatest nation in the world," Jun Do rises in the ranks. He becomes a professional kidnapper who must navigate the shifting rules, arbitrary violence, and baffling demands of his Korean...
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Pub. Date
2016.
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Just hours after his wife and her entire family perish in the Christmas Eve tsunami in Brisbane, American expat and former police officer Frank Mercy goes out to join his volunteer rescue unit and pulls a little boy from a submerged car, saving the childs life with only seconds to spare. In that moment, Franks own life is transformed. Not quite knowing why, Frank sidesteps the law, when, instead of turning Ian over to the Red Cross, he takes the boy...
70) Cold white sun
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Pub. Date
2019.
Description
"A stranger-than-fiction story based on the real-life experiences of a young boy who was smuggled out of Ethiopia amid political unrest to start a new life from nothing in Calgary, Alberta."--
71) Heap house
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Series
Iremonger volume 1
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Young Clod, living in his family's mansion amongst a mass of shifting forgotten items, becomes aware of the items whispering to him and senses a growing storm ahead, needing the help of an orphan servant to unravel the mystery.
"Young Clod is an Iremonger. He lives in at Heap House, his family's mansion at the center of the Heaps, a vast sea of lost and discarded items whose ever-shifting masses have been known to swallow people alive. The Iremongers...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 17
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Nineteen-year-old returning champion Sean Kendrick competes against Puck Connolly, the first girl ever to ride in the annual Scorpio Races, both trying to keep hold of their dangerous water horses long enough to make it to the finish line.
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Hagenheim volume 8
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
In medieval Hagenheim, Germany, Aladdin, a poor orphan from the Holy Land, tries to rescue and win the heart of Kirstyn, the Duke of Hagenheim's daughter, his friend since childhood who is now pursued by greedy men seeking her father's fortune.
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Series
Seasons of the heart (Janette Oke) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 10
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A boy worries that his aunt, who is raising him, will abandon him if she marries.
75) Snow like ashes
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Series
Snow like ashes trilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 16
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Orphaned Meira, a fierce chakram-wielding warrior from the Kingdom of Winter, must struggle to free her people from the tyranny of an opposing kingdom while also protecting her own destiny.
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Pub. Date
[2015].
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 13
Description
Mitch Albom creates a magical world through his love of music in this remarkable new novel about the power of talent to change our lives. This is the epic story of Frankie Presto - the greatest guitar player who ever lived - and the six lives he changed with his six magical blue strings. Frankie, born in a burning church, abandoned as an infant, and raised by a music teacher in a small Spanish town, until war rips his life apart. At 9-years-old, he...
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Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 15
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When a child goes missing from the Orphan House in the town of Stone-in-the-Glen, the mayor suggests the kindly Ogress is responsible, but the orphans do not believe that and try to make their deluded neighbors see the real villain among them.
78) The BFG
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It tells the imaginative story of a young girl and the Giant who introduces her to the wonders and perils of Giant Country. The BFG, while a giant himself, is a Big Friendly Giant and nothing like the other inhabitants of Giant Country. Standing 24-feet tall with enormous ears and a keen sense of smell, he is endearingly dim-witted and keeps to himself for the most part.
"Spielberg offers a gallery of unforgettable images to illuminate a surprisingly...
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Guardians of Ga'Hoole volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 6
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"A great battle is on the horizon and drawing near. In preparation, Soren and his band must fly to the mysterious North Kingdoms to find allies and study the grim art of war. Meanwhile, St. Aggie's has fallen to the Pure Ones. If they are not stopped, they will launch another, more deadly attack against the great tree. And without allies from the north, Ga'Hoole will surely fall."--Cover.
80) Of human bondage
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.3 - AR Pts: 48
Description
Philip Carey, a handicapped orphan, is brought up by a clergyman, but Philip sheds his religious faith and begins to study art in Paris.