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Author
Series
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 9
Description
In futuristic Satellite City, fourteen-year-old Cosmo Hill escapes from his abusive orphanage and teams up with three other people who share his unusual ability to see supernatural creatures, and together they determine the nature and purpose of the swarming blue Parasites that are invisible to most humans.
82) The devil's own
Author
Description
Of the lot, this man was still her best bet. He not only looked the most inebriated, but the most disreputable – lean and hungry and totally without principle. Once he was sober, he would no doubt be easy to buy. "Sister" Kerry Bishop got more than she bargained for when she entered the seedy bar seeking the services of a man, more particularly a mercenary. Linc O'Neal wasn't the soldier of fortune Kerry mistook him for…but he proved to be...
83) The cuckoo clock
Author
Publisher
Godine
Pub. Date
1987, c1986
Description
Orphaned Erich's life as an unloved drudge begins to change when old Ula, the town's most skillful clockmaker, takes him on as his helper.
84) Day of doom
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 8
Description
It started with a kidnapping. A shadowy organization known only as the Vespers snatched seven members of the Cahill family and demanded a series of bizarre ransoms from around the world. Thirteen-year-old Dan Cahill and his older sister Amy began a global treasure hunt, determined to bring back whatever Vesper One needed, so long as it kept the hostages safe. But when they deliver the last ransom, Amy and Dan discover Vesper One's terrifying endgame....
85) Jason's gold
Author
Publisher
HarperTrophy
Pub. Date
2000, c1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 8
Description
When news of the discovery of gold in Canada's Yukon Territory in 1897 reaches fifteen-year-old Jason, he embarks on a 10,000-mile journey to strike it rich.
Author
Series
White rabbit chronicles volume 1
Publisher
Harlequin
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 16
Description
She won't rest until she's sent every walking corpse back to its grave. Forever.
Had anyone told Alice Bell that her entire life would change course between one heartbeat and the next, she would have laughed. But that's all it took. One heartbeat. A blink, a breath, a second, and everything she knew and loved was gone.
Her father was right. The monsters are real.&
To avenge her family, Ali must learn to fight the undead. To survive, she must learn...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 4
Description
Having lost his mother and his hearing in a short time, twelve-year-old Ben leaves his Minnesota home in 1977 to seek the father he never knew in New York City, and meets there Rose, who is also longing for something missing from her life. Ben's story is told in words; Rose's in pictures.
88) 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.
89) Skeleton Key
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 10
Formats
Description
Reluctant teenage-spy Alex Rider, on a routine mission at the Wimbledon tennis championships, gets caught up in Chinese gangs, illegal nuclear weapons, and the suspect plans of his Russian host, General Sarov.
Author
Series
(Lucy Maud),Anne of Green Gables volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 17
Description
Anne, an eleven-year-old orphan, is sent by mistake to live with a lonely, middle-aged sister and brother on a Prince Edward Island farm and proceeds to make an indelible impression on everyone around her.
93) Icy Sparks
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 15
Description
At the age of ten, an Appalachian girl develops croaks, jerks and spasms, which leads to her explusion from school. After treatment--she has Tourette's syndrome--she learns to control herself, attends college and there is a happy ending.
94) Miracle's boys
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 3
Description
Twelve-year-old Lafayette's close relationship with his older brother Charlie changes after Charlie is released from a detention home and blames Lafayette for the death of their mother.
95) Stormbreaker
Author
Series
Publisher
Speak
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 7
Description
After the death of the uncle who had been his guardian, fourteen-year-old Alex Rider is coerced to continue his uncle's dangerous work for Britain's intelligence agency, MI6.
96) Clockwork angel
Author
Series
Infernal devices volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 21
Description
When sixteen-year-old orphan Tessa Fell's older brother suddenly vanishes, her search for him leads her into Victorian-era London's dangerous supernatural underworld, and when she discovers that she herself is a Downworlder, she must learn to trust the demon-killing Shadowhunters if she ever wants to learn to control her powers and find her brother.
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.
99) You wish
Author
Series
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
[2007]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 6
Description
When a miserable orphan unknowingly disrupts the balance of power between the magical realms of wishes and curses, he must join forces with the Wishworks Factory to reclaim his errant wish and set things right again.
Author
Series
Apple Valley mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Baker Books
Pub. Date
2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 5
Description
The children at Apple Valley Orphanage befriend two Mexican children who have run away from a cruel migrant labor boss.
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