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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 14
Description
Devastated when her parents are killed in a car accident, sixteen-year old Jackie moves from New York City to Colorado to live with her mother's best friend, who has twelve children, including two boys who start to show an interest in Jackie that goes beyond brotherly.
2) The BFG
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 6
Description
Kidsnatched from her orphange 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.
5) The end
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 9
Description
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.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 13
Formats
Description
"Mary Lennox is a spoiled, sour child, raised by self-involved parents in India. When a cholera epidemic leaves her orphaned she is transplanted to her uncle's rambling estate in Yorkshire. There, she's transformed by the discovery of a secret garden - and many other secrets besides. An enchanting tale about the healing powers of nature and empathy."-- Provided by publisher.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 14
Description
Through twists and turns of fate, orphaned Mary seeks knowledge of life, love, and especially what lies beyond her walled village and the surrounding forest, where dwell the unconsecrated, aggressive flesh-eating people who were once dead.
10) Anne of Avonlea
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.6 - AR Pts: 16
Formats
Description
Sixteen-year-old Anne, mischievous and spirited as ever, returns to Avonlea to teach in the village school where she herself was taught.
11) The reptile room
Author
Series
Series of Unfortunate Events volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 5
Formats
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.
13) The wide window
Author
Series
Series of Unfortunate Events volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Catastrophes and misfortune continue to plague the Baudelaire orphans after being sent to live with fearful Aunt Josephine, who offers little protection against Count Olaf's treachery.
14) Starters
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 12
Formats
Description
To support herself and her younger brother in a future Beverly Hills, sixteen-year-old Callie hires her body out to seniors who want to experience being young again, and she lives a fairy-tale life until she learns that her body will commit murder, unless her mind can stop it.
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 8
Formats
Description
Rescued from a rainy, boggy town where she works in a dismal factory, ten-year-old orphan Isabelle learns that she is the last surviving member of a family that tends the world's only remaining magic-producing farm.
16) The false prince
Author
Series
Ascendance volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 12
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.
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 9
Formats
Description
Trix's life in boarding school as an orphan charity case has been hard, but when an alluring young Ringmaster invites her, a gymnast, to join Circus Galacticus she gainss an entire universe of deadly enemies and potential friends, along with a chance to unravel secrets of her own past.
19) The eighth day
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 10
Formats
Description
"Orphan Jax Aubrey doesn't expect much on his thirteenth birthday, but when he discovers there's an extra day squeezed between Wednesday and Thursday whose origins are rooted in Arthurian legend, it's clear his lfe will never be the same"--
20) Orphan Island
Author
Publisher
Walden Pond Press, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 9
Description
On an island where one child is delivered each year while the eldest is taken away, nine children live under the leadership of new elder Jinny, who trains the latest newcomer and wonders what will happen when her own departure occurs.
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