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2) Angel
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c1993
Description
A saga of friendship and fame, secrets, and success.
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...
Author
Description
Set in the mountains of southern Appalachia, Demon Copperhead is the story of a boy born to a teen-age 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. In a plot that never pauses for breath, relayed in his own unsparing voice, he braves the modern perils of foster care, child labor, derelict schools, athletic success, addiction, disastrous...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.8 - AR Pts: 105
Formats
Description
Sensational, dramatic, packed with rich excitement and filled with the sweep and violence of human passions, LES MISERABLES is not only superb adventure but a powerful social document. The story of how the convict Jean-Valjean struggled to escape his past and reaffirm his humanity, in a world brutalized by poverty and ignorance, became the gospel of the poor and the oppressed.
8) Northwind
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 6
Description
When sickness decimates his fishing village, an orphan named Leif flees north in a cedar canoe, journeying along a brutal but beautiful coastline.
9) Oliver Twist
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Formats
Description
An adaptation of Dicken's story of the orphan forced to practice thievery and live a life of crime in nineteenth-century London.
10) Master of iron
Author
Series
Bladesmith volume 2
Publisher
Feiwel & Friends
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
"...Ziva may have defeated a deadly warlord, but the price was almost too high. With her sister's life at stake, she is forced into a breakneck race with the handsome mercenary Kellyn and the young scholar Petrik to find a powerful magical healer in a nearby city.
11) Delirium
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 18
Formats
Description
Lena looks forward to receiving the government-mandated cure that prevents the delirium of love and leads to a safe, predictable, and happy life, until ninety-five days before her eighteenth birthday and her treatment, when she falls in love.
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
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Description
It is 1936 when orphaned thirteen-year-old Evalina Toussaint is admitted to Highland Hospital in Asheville, North Carolina, a mental institution known for its innovative treatments for nervous disorders and addictions. Taken under the wing of the hospital's most notable patient, Zelda Fitzgerald, Evalina witnesses the cascading events leading up to the tragic fire of 1948 that killed nine women in a locked ward, Zelda among them.
13) Royal: a novel
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Sent into hiding during World War II, headstrong seventeen-year-old Princess Charlotte assumes an alias and enjoys the freedoms of a normal life in Yorkshire before her ill-fated romance with her guardians' son leads to the orphaning of a royal infant.
Summer, 1943. The King and Queen choose to send their youngest daughter, Princess Charlotte, to live with a noble family in the country. Despite her headstrong nature, the princess's fragile health...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 13
Description
In this story inspired by Jules Verne's 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Ana Dakkar, a freshman at Harding-Pencroft Academy--a five-year high school that graduates the best marine scientists, naval warriors, navigators, and underwater explorers in the world--makes astounding discoveries about her heritage and puts her leadership skills to the test against deadly enemies from a rival school.
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
"Soon after her twenty-fifth birthday, Libby Jones returns home from work to find the letter she's been waiting for her entire life. She rips it open with one driving thought: I am finally going to know who I am. She soon learns not only the identity of her birth parents, but also that she is the sole inheritor of their abandoned mansion on the banks of the Thames in London's fashionable Chelsea neighborhood, worth millions. Everything in Libby's...
17) Iron house
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 18
Formats
Description
At the Iron Mountain Home for Boys, there was nothing but time. Time to burn and time to kill, time for two young orphans to learn that life isn't won without a fight. Julian survives only because his older brother, Michael, is fearless and fiercely protective. When tensions boil over and a boy is brutally killed, there is only one sacrifice left for Michael to make: He flees the orphanage and takes the blame with him. For two decades, Michael has...
18) Remarkables
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
A wordless picture book in which a boy meets an orphaned mermaid and invites her to join his circus family.
Author
Series
Beast and the Bethany volume 1
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 6
Description
Handsome Ebenezer Tweezer has lived comfortably for nearly 512 years by feeding the magical beast in his mansion's attic whatever it wants, but when the beast demands a child, they are not prepared for Bethany.--
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