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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 11.3 - AR Pts: 33
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Dive into the dark and pulsating streets of Victorian England with Charles Dickens' timeless masterpiece, "Oliver Twist." Follow the captivating destiny of Oliver Twist, a brave young orphan, as he confronts the injustice, poverty, and cruelty of the world around him.
Oliver, mistreated in an orphanage, escapes to London where he becomes entangled with a gang of thieves led by the infamous Fagin. But Oliver is different. His innocence and purity...
Author
Series
Seasons of the heart volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 10
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Description
Josh Jones realizes his family isn't typical, but it's the only life he's ever known. Aunt Lou, Gramps, Uncle Charlie, Grandpa--they all have shaped the young man he has become. But as he grows into manhood, Josh begins to face important questions about life, love, and faith. Three million books sold in the series!
Author
Series
Women of the West volume 8
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
1993
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 10
Description
In Heart of the Wilderness, young Kendra Marty goes to live with her grandfather after her parents die in a river accident. But what can a trapper living in the backwoods offer a small child? Will Kendra ever be ready to face the scary and confusing world far from the wilderness she loves?
6) Gallant
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Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 10
Description
Olivia Prior has grown up in Merilance School for girls, and all she has of her past is her mother's journal--which seems to unravel into madness. Then, a letter invites Olivia to come home--to Gallant. Yet when Olivia arrives, no one is expecting her. But Olivia is not about to leave the first place that feels like home, it doesn't matter if her cousin Matthew is hostile or if she sees half-formed ghouls haunting the hallways. Olivia knows that Gallant...
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.
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Series
Publisher
Perennial Library
Pub. Date
1989, c1988
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 13
Description
The Bean Trees is bestselling author Barbara Kingsolver's first novel, now widely regarded as a modern classic. It is the charming, engrossing tale of rural Kentucky native Taylor Greer, who only wants to get away from her roots and avoid getting pregnant. She succeeds, but inherits a 3-year-old native-American little girl named Turtle along the way, and together, from Oklahoma to Tucson, Arizona, half-Cherokee Taylor and her charge search for a new...
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Series
Tales of the Otori volume 2
Publisher
Riverhead
Pub. Date
2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 15
Description
A New York Times Notable Book of the YearBook II of the internationally best-selling Tales of the Otori trilogy, a sweeping saga set in a mythical, medieval Japan. In Book I of the Otori trilogy, Across the Nightingale Floor, Lian Hearn created a wholly original, fully-realized fantasy world where great powers clashed and young love dawned against a dazzling and mystical landscape. Nightingale was named a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, one...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 16
Description
Pi Patel is an unusual boy. The son of a zookeeper, he has an encyclopedic knowledge of animal behavior, a fervent love of stories, and practices not only his native Hinduism, but also Christianity and Islam. When Pi is sixteen, his family emigrates from India to North America aboard a Japanese cargo ship, along with their zoo animals bound for new homes. The ship sinks. Pi finds himself alone in a lifeboat, his only companions a hyena, an orangutan,...
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Series
Strange the Dreamer volume 1
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 24
Description
War orphan and junior librarian Lazlo Strange gets an unexpected opportunity to follow his dream of seeking the mythic lost city of Weep with the Godslayer and his band of legendary warriors.
13) Sever
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Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 13
Description
After modern science turns every human into a genetic time bomb with men dying at age twenty-five and women dying at age twenty, teenaged Rhine finds hope for a brighter future from a surprising source.
14) Defy the stars
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Series
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 17
Description
Teenaged soldier Noemi and an enemy robot, Abel, who is programmed to obey her commands, set out on an interstellar quest to save her home planet, Earth colony Genesis.
15) Fever
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Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster BFYR
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 12
Description
In a future where genetic engineering has cured humanity of all diseases and defects but has also produced a virus that kills all females by age twenty and all males by the age twenty-five, teenaged Rhine escapes her forced marriage and journeys back to New York to find her twin brother.
Author
Series
Tales of the Otori volume 1
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 14
Description
A tour-de-force novel set in ancient Japan filled with passion, fantasy, and feuding warlords. The first volume in the highly anticipated "Tales of the Otori" trilogy. Sixteen-year-old Takeo's village has been massacred by an evil warlord, and he is about to be slain by the men who murdered his parents and neighbors. At the last moment, his life is saved by a nobleman, who claims the boy as his kin and begins his education. But nothing is as it seems....
17) The good thief
Author
Publisher
Dial Press
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 14
Description
Growing up in a New England orphanage unaware of his family and of how he had lost his left hand as an infant, twelve-year-old Ren is terrified of the future, until a young man shows up claiming to be his long-lost brother, with whom he embarks on an adventure-filled odyssey of scam artists, petty criminals, and resurrection men.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 17
Description
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.
19) Wither
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Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 13
Description
After modern science turns every human into a genetic time bomb with men dying at age twenty-five and women dying at age twenty, girls are kidnapped and married off in order to repopulate the world.
20) Orphan train
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 13
Description
Between 1854 and 1929, so-called orphan trains ran regularly from the cities of the East Coast to the farmlands of the Midwest, carrying thousands of abandoned children whose fates would be determined by luck and chance. This is the story of one such child. As a young Irish immigrant, Vivian Daly was sent by rail from New York City to an uncertain future a world away. Returning east later in life, Vivian leads a quiet, peaceful existence on the coast...
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