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41) Ballet shoes
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
930L
Language
English
Description
Determined to make a name for themselves, three adopted sisters living in London train for the ballet and the stage and in the process discover that each has a special talent.
Author
Series
Starcatchers volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
710L
Language
English
Description
Peter, an orphan boy, and his friend Molly fight off thieves and pirates in order to keep the secret safe away from the diabolical Black Stache and his evil associate Mister Grin.
43) The Grim Grotto
Author
Series
Series of unfortunate events volume 11
Pub. Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
1040L
Language
English
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.
45) Mike's mystery
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
460L
Language
English
Description
Henry, Jessie, Benny, and Violet Alden meet Mike Wood and a strange chain of events begins. Mike's house is mysteriously burned down, a man in a blue hat appears, and the Alden's uranium mine is in danger of being sabotaged. The four youngsters solve the mystery.
46) Table for five
Author
Language
English
Description
When an estranged couple is killed in a tragic accident, strangers Lily Robinson and Sean McGuire are named the guardians of their three orphaned children and must find a way to become a family.
Author
Series
Charles G. West novel volume 41
Language
English
Description
"Cord Malone carries a scar on his forehead from the night Levi Creed killed his parents and left twelve-year-old Cord unconscious in their burning house. Seven years later, Cord leaves his grandmother's house on a quest--to find Levi Creed and make him pay"--
48) Les misérables
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.8 - AR Pts: 105
Language
English
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.
Author
Series
Series of unfortunate events volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
1110L
Language
English
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.
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire are taken in by a series of oddball relatives and others after their wealthy parents are killed in a fire. The first to take them in is the dastardly and cunning Count Olaf, who is only interested in their inheritance.
51) Understood Betsy
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
1000L
Language
English
Description
Timid and small for her age, nine-year-old Elizabeth Ann discovers her own abilities and gains a new perception of the world around her when she goes to live with relatives on a farm in Vermont.
Author
Publisher
Miramax Books/Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
650L
Language
English
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.
53) Dragon keeper
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
760L
Language
English
Description
An orphan slave girl becomes a Dragon Keeper when she heroically comes to the aid of an aging dragon and both go on a dangerous journey across China to protect a mysterious stone vital to the dragon's legacy.
54) With you always
Author
Series
Orphan train volume 1
Language
English
Description
When a financial crisis in 1850s New York leaves three orphaned sisters nearly destitute, the oldest, Elise Neumann, knows she must take action. She's had experience as a seamstress, and the New York Children's Aid Society has established a special service: placing out seamstresses and trade girls. Even though Elise doesn't want to leave her sisters for a job in Illinois, she realizes this may be their last chance. The son of one of New York City's...
Author
Series
Kingkiller chronicle volume day 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 39
Language
English
Description
A hero named Kvothe, now living under an assumed name as the humble proprietor of an inn, recounts his transformation from a magically gifted young man into the most notorious wizard, musician, thief, and assassin in his world.
57) Orphan Island
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
650L
Language
English
Description
On the island, everything is perfect. The sun rises in a sky filled with dancing shapes; the wind, water, and trees shelter and protect those who live there; when the nine children go to sleep in their cabins, it is with full stomachs and joy in their hearts. And only one thing ever changes: on that day, each year, when a boat appears from the mist upon the ocean carrying one young child to join them -- and taking the eldest one away, never to be...
58) Sustaining faith
Author
Series
When hope calls volume 2
Language
English
Description
"So much has been accomplished. Lillian Walsh has stepped out courageously beyond what she'd ever dreamed of being able to achieve. She and her newly rediscovered sister, Grace, have settled three children from England into new Canadian homes and are prepared to place two more just after the New Year, when it happens--another painful disruption. A white lie the sisters used to protect some orphans has resulted in an official complaint and a letter...
59) Demon Copperhead
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
The teenage son of an Appalachian single mother who dies when he is eleven uses his good looks, wit, and instincts to survive foster care, child labor, addiction, disastrous loves, and crushing losses.
Set in the mountains of southern Appalachia, this is the story of a boy born to a teenaged 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....
60) The nowhere man
Author
Series
Orphan X novel volume 1
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
""Orphan X is the most gripping, high-octane thriller I've read in a long, long time. Hang onto your seat because Gregg Hurwitz will take you on a dizzying ride you'll not soon forget!" -Tess Gerritsen The Nowhere Man is a legendary figure spoken about only in whispers. It's said that when he's reached by the truly desperate and deserving, the Nowhere Man can and will do anything to protect and save them. But he's no legend. Evan Smoak is a man with...