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22) The proposal
Author
Series
English garden volume 1
Description
Lori Wick's bestselling English Garden series (more than 720,000 copies sold) is filled with engaging characters and stories. Now with fresh, new covers, each of the four books in the series will hold a favorite spot on the nightstand or bookshelf of any reader who loves a great romance.
The Proposal, book one in the series, is set in 1810 London, England. William Jennings has never been interested in marriage and family. So when a relative dies...
23) Jane, unlimited
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 19
Formats
Description
"Recently orphaned Jane accepts an unexpected invitation from an old acquaintance to an island mansion where she will face five choices that could ultimately determine the course of her newly untethered life"--
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.
25) Lemons
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 9
Description
After her mother dies in 1975, ten-year-old Lemonade must live with her grandfather in a small town famous for Bigfoot sightings and soon becomes friends with Tobin, a quirky Bigfoot investigator.
Author
Series
Series of Unfortunate Events volume 9
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 7
Description
On the run as suspected murderers, the unlucky Baudelaire orphans find themselves trapped in the Caligari Carnival, where they must masquerade as freaks in order to hide from the evil Count Olaf.
27) Counting by 7s
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 10
Formats
Description
Twelve-year-old genius and outsider Willow Chance must figure out how to connect with other people and find a surrogate family for herself after her parents are killed in a car accident.
28) Eve
Author
Series
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 10
Description
In 2032, sixteen years after a deadly virus has wiped out most of the earth's population, Eve discovers the terrible fate that awaits students when they graduate from their all-girls school, and she sets off on a treacherous journey into the wilds of The New America, searching for a place where she can survive.
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 10
Formats
Description
In nineteenth-century England, after her father's disappearance Nan Sparrow, ten, works as a "climbing boy, " aiding chimney sweeps, but when her most treasured possessions end up in a fireplace, she unwittingly creates a golem.--
30) The Willoughbys
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 4
Formats
Description
In this tongue-in-cheek take on classic themes in children's literature, the four Willoughby children set about to become "deserving orphans" after their neglectful parents embark on a treacherous around-the-world adventure, leaving them in the care of an odious nanny.
31) The empty mirror
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2005, 2004
Description
Thirteen-year-old Nick, whose parents died in the 1918 flu epidemic, must find out why his mirror-image is causing mischief around their New England town and making sure Nick gets the blame.
Author
Series
White rabbit chronicles volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 16
Formats
Description
After a strange new zombie attack, a terrible darkness blooms inside Alice urging her to do wicked things. She's never needed her team of zombie slayers more --including her boyfriend, Cole -- than she does now. But as Cole strangely withdraws and the zombies gain new strength, Ali knows one false step may doom them all.
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 4
Formats
Description
In the nineteenth century, ten-year-old Florence Crutchfield leaves a London orphanage to live with her great-uncle, great-aunt, and sickly cousin James, but she soon realizes the home has another resident, who means to do her and James harm.
34) You can't hide
Author
Series
Shadow House volume 2
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Trapped inside the sinister estate where the past and present intertwine, Poppy, Marcus, Dash, Dylan, and Azumi gradually discover that the secrets they each hold are more sinister than the house's ghosts.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 4
Formats
Description
When ten-year-old orphan Peter Augustus Duchene encounters a fortune teller in the marketplace one day and she tells him that his sister, who is presumed dead, is in fact alive, he embarks on a remarkable series of adventures as he desperately tries to find her.
36) Ash
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 11
Formats
Description
In this variation on the Cinderella story, Ash grows up believing in the fairy realm that the king and his philosophers have sought to suppress, until one day she must choose between a handsome fairy cursed to love her and the King's Huntress whom she loves.
37) The grim grotto
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 8
Description
Still pursued by the evil Count Olaf, the Baudelaire orphans attempt to reach a very important VFD meeting, but first they must travel in a rattletrap submarine to the Gorgonian Grotto, a dangerous underwater cave, in search of the sugar bowl.
38) The wide window
Author
Series
Series of Unfortunate Events volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 5
Formats
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.
Author
Series
Guardians volume 3
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 4
Description
When orphaned Katherine learns that the teeth collected by the scorned Tooth Fairy contain memories of childhood, she enlists the help of the Guardians to get her tooth back and remember her parents.
40) The humming room
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 6
Description
Twelve-year-old orphan Roo Fanshaw is sent to live with an uncle she never knew in a largely uninhabited mansion on Cough Rock Island and discovers a wild river boy, an invalid cousin, and the mysteries of a hidden garden.
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