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42) Ruby Holler
Author
Publisher
Joanna Cotler Books/Harper Collins Publishers
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 6
Description
Thirteen-year-old fraternal twins Dallas and Florida have grown up in a terrible orphanage but their lives change forever when an eccentric but sweet older couple invites them each on an adventure, beginning in an almost magical place called Ruby Holler.
Author
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
In a stunning debut novel that evokes the epic scope of Colleen McCullough's classic The Thorn Birds, Harmony Verna creates a poignant, beautifully told story of love and courage, set in Australia and America in the early decades of the twentieth century.
The desert of Western Australia is vast and unforgiving. It's a miracle that the little girl dressed in rags and abandoned in the sand is still breathing when an old miner discovers her. Even more...
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.
45) Despicable me 2
Publisher
Distributed by Universal Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
©2013
Description
See the return of former super-villain Gru, who has retired from a life of crime to raise his three daughters. But things take an unexpected turn when he is recruited by the Anti-Villain League to track down an elusive criminal who is threatening the world. Now, with new partner Lucy Wilde by his side, Gru and the Minions set off on an unpredictable and unexpected adventure.
Author
Series
Series of Unfortunate Events volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 4
Description
After the sudden death of their parents, the three Baudelaire children must depend on each other and their wits when it turns out that the distant relative who is appointed their guardian is determined to use any means necessary to get their fortune.
48) Station Jim
Publisher
BFS Video
Pub. Date
2007
Description
A young man working in a train station befriends a dog that can do amazing tricks. When the Queen of England is set to visit the station, an assassination attempt is put on her. Will the most unlikely of characters save the day?
49) Leap!
Publisher
Lions Gate Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Formats
Description
An orphan girl dreams of becoming a ballerina and flees her rural Brittany for Paris, where she passes for someone else and accedes to the position of pupil at the Grand Opera house.
51) 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
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 3
Description
A classic tale of an orphan growing up in the 1800's of England. Intimately rooted in the author's own biography and written as a first-person narrative, "David Copperfield" charts a young man's progress through a difficult childhood in Victorian England to ultimate success as a novelist, finding true love along the way. Jeremy Tambling's provocative Introduction reveals subtle themes relevant today in Dickens' favorite work.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 5
Description
"We shall all, in the end, be led to where we belong. We shall all, in the end, find our way home. In a time of war, a mysterious child appears at the monastery of the Order of the Chronicles of Sorrowing. Gentle Brother Edik finds the girl, Beatryce, curled in a stall, wracked with fever, coated in dirt and blood, and holding fast to the ear of Answelica the goat. As the monk nurses Beatryce to health, he uncovers her dangerous secret, one that imperils...
54) Sustaining faith
Author
Series
When hope calls volume 2
Pub. Date
[2021]
Formats
Description
"With more children on their way from England who need caring homes, Lillian and Grace Walsh must use every ounce of gumption to keep their mission alive. But when startling information about the past surfaces and a new arrival comes via suspicious circumstances, they'll have to decided what is worth fighting for and what is better left in God's hands"--
56) The bird house
Author
Publisher
Blue Sky Press
Pub. Date
c1998
Description
An orphan girl finds an unexpected home when she stops to admire the mystery and magic of the birds flocking around an old woman's house.
Publisher
Shout Factory
Pub. Date
[2019]
Formats
Description
After losing her parents in a car accident, Okko goes to live with her grandmother, who runs a traditional Japanese inn built on top of an ancient spring said to have healing waters. Okko discovers there are spirits who live there that only she can see; not scary ones, but welcoming ghosts who keep her company and play games. The inn₂s motto is that it welcomes all and rejects none, and it is soon put to the test as a string of new guests challenge...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 7
Description
The woeful saga of the Baudelaire orphans continues as evil Count Olaf discovers their whereabouts at Esmé Squalor's seventy-one bedroom penthouse and concocts a new plan for stealing their family fortune. In their most daring misadventure, the Baudelaire orphans are adopted by a very rich couple whose penthouse apartment is located close to the place where the orphans' misfortune all began. This sixth book in "A Series of Unfortunate Events" finds...
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...
60) Of human bondage
Author
Formats
Description
Phillip Carey, a handicapped orphan, is brought up by a self-indulgent Victorian clergyman. Shedding his religious faith as a young man, he begins to study art in Paris, but finally returns to London to qualify as a doctor.
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