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Author
Series
Beast and the Bethany volume 1
Publisher
Aladdin
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.--
Author
Series
Fruits Basket volume 1-2
Publisher
Tokyopop
Pub. Date
©2007
Description
Tohru and the Sohmas are at the Sohma's summerhouse, but it's not all fun and games. Akito causes a commotion by dropping by for a visit, Shigure strolls down memory lane with an old friend, and Tohru begins to wonder what life is like for the loved ones of a cursed member of this family.
163) Champion of fate
Author
Series
Heromaker volume 1
Formats
Description
"Aristene are an order of mythical female warriors. Though heroes might be immortalized in legends, it's the Aristene who guide their paths to victory. They are the Heromakers. Raised by the order after being orphaned, Reed grew up surrounded by her future sisters-in-arms and the incredible stories of their quests. She's been counting the days until her initiation, and now one final test stands in her way: shepherding her first hero to glory on the...
Author
Series
War that saved my life volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 9
Description
"As the frightening impact of World War II creeps closer and closer to her door, eleven-year-old Ada learns to manage life on the home front"--
165) Teen Titans: Raven
Author
Publisher
DC Ink
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"When a tragic accident takes the life of the only family she's ever known, 16-year-old Raven is sent to New Orleans to start over. She soon discovers that she can hear the thoughts of others around her ... and another, more disturbing, voice in her head."--
166) The invocations
Author
Publisher
Nancy Paulsen Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
"To get what they want most, Zara and Jude search for Emer, an orphaned witch with dark and deadly powers, but when a serial killer targets Emer's clients, the three girls form an uneasy alliance to hunt the killer before they meet the same fate"
167) Fen gold
Author
Series
Wickit chronicles volume 2
Publisher
Kane/Miller
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 3
Description
"The hot summer has brought several kinds of trouble to the monastery at Wickit, and Pip, the orphan, and Perfect, the stone gargoyle, find themselves up to the eyebrows in it all. What is the king's man really doing at Wicket? Will the Black Bog give up its secrets? Will the beautiful Norse girl find Johan Shortleg's long-lost buried treasures? "--P. [4] of cover.
168) Hawkes Harbor
Author
Publisher
Tor Books
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 9
Description
An orphan and a bastard, Jamie Sommers grew up knowing he had no hope of heaven. Conceived in adultery and born in sin, Jamie was destined to repeat the sins of his parents -or so the nuns told him. And he proved them right. Taking to sea, Jamie sought out danger and adventure in exotic ports all over the world as a smuggler, gunrunner-and murderer. Tough enough to handle anything, he's survived foreign prisons, pirates, and a shark attack. But in...
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 12
Description
"Herc Beal knows who he's named after - a mythical hero - but he's no superhero. He's the smallest kid in his class. So when his homeroom teacher at his new middle school gives him the assignment of duplicating the mythical Hercules's amazing feats in real life, he's skeptical. After all, there are no Nemean Lions on Cape Cod, and not a single Hydra in sight. Missing his parents terribly and wishing his older brother wasn't working all the time, Herc...
170) Counterstrike
Author
Series
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Pub. Date
2016.
Description
Deep beneath London, five extraordinary youths, orphans who bonded over their shared sense of justice, have formed the Urban Outlaws and dedicated themselves to outsmarting criminals and performing Random Acts of Kindness (R.A.K.s). The Urban Outlaws face their biggest challenge yet. They have to break into the Facility and find the ultimate weapon - Medusa - before Hector does. But there are five levels of security to crack and a mystery room that...
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
©2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 5
Description
"Estrild is not like the other girls in her village; she wants to be a warrior. Varick, the orphan boy who helps her train in spite of his twisted back, also stands apart.In a world where differences are poorly tolerated, just how much danger are they in?"
172) Gallant
Author
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...
173) Shockwave
Author
Series
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2016.
Description
Deep beneath London, five extraordinary youths, orphans who bonded over their shared sense of justice, have formed the Urban Outlaws and dedicated themselves to outsmarting criminals and performing Random Acts of Kindness (R.A.K.s), but now they are in serious trouble when they face the ultimate weapon - Medusa. Hector Del Sarto used them to spread the deadly Medusa virus and now the whole of London is in lockdown. Only Hector and his father have...
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
Seventeen-year-old Kitty, still grieving for her late boyfriend, is sucked into the dark, twisted world of the Life and Death Parade, a group that explores the veil between life and death.
One year ago, Kitty's boyfriend Nikki Bramley visited a psychic who told him he had no future. Now, he's dead. She sets out to find the psychic who read Nikki his fate, but finds Roan, an enigmatic boy posing as a medium who belongs to the Life and Death Parade--...
175) Jane Eyre
Author
Description
Jane, a plain and penniless orphan in nineteenth-century England, accepts employment as a governess at Thornfield Hall and soon finds herself in love with her melancholy employer, Mr. Edward Rochester, a man with a terrible secret.
176) Leviathan
Author
Series
Leviathan trilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 12
Formats
Description
In an alternate 1914 Europe, fifteen-year-old Austrian Prince Alek, on the run from the Clanker Powers who are attempting to take over the globe using mechanical machinery, forms an uneasy alliance with Deryn who, disguised as a boy to join the British Air Service, is learning to fly genetically-engineered beasts.
177) Echo
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 13
Description
Lost in the Black Forest, Otto meets three mysterious sisters and finds himself entwined in a puzzling quest involving a prophecy, a promise, and a harmonica. Decades later, as the second World War approaches, the lives of three children -- Friedrich in Germany, Mike in Pennsylvania, and Ivy in California -- become interwoven when the very same harmonica lands in their lives. All the children face daunting challenges: rescuing a father, protecting...
Author
Series
Boxcar children great adventure volume 2
Publisher
Albert Whitman
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 3
Description
"In this all-new very special mini-series, the Aldens have been recruited by a secret society to return lost artifacts and treasures to their rightful locations all around the world! The Aldens arrive in Egypt but the agent they're supposed to meet has gone missing! With the help of a puzzle in a papyrus scroll, they figure out their next mission ; to deliver a tiny ancient pharaoh statue to an archaelogist at the Pyramids! Along the way they outwit...
179) The golden twine
Author
Series
Cat's Cradle volume 1
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
"Suri loves monsters―studying their lore, telling stories about them (for a fee), and―she hopes―one day taming them. Unfortunately, no one takes an orphan street-urchin who travels with a merchant camp very seriously. But Suri’s self-confidence, cleverness, and ambition serve her well when a mysterious new wagon joins her camp―holding something very big, very loud, and very monstrous."
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