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Author
Series
A series of unfortunate events volume 8
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
On the run after being falsely accused of murder, the three Baudelaire orphans find themselves in the Heimlich Hospital, with the evil Count Olaf in close pursuit.
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Author Reef uncovers the true history of orphanages, revealing what it was like to eat, sleep, study, and play in such institutions, why children were sent to live there in the first place (not always because their parents were dead), what happened to them after they left, and more. Carefully researched and brought to life through accessible writing, first-hand accounts, and more than 70 archival photographs and prints.--From publisher description....
Author
Series
Mysterious Benedict Society volume Prequel
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this prequel to the Mysterious Benedict Society series, nine-year-old Nicholas Benedict, an orphan afflicted with an unfortunate nose and with narcolepsy, is sent to a new orphanage where he encounters vicious bullies, selfish adults, strange circumstances, and a mystery that could change his life forever.
Author
Series
Robyn Hood volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Master thief Robyn Hood must discover who is taking money from a local orphanage before the kids' fates are put in danger.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1905, ten-year-old Billy is taken from an orphanage to live with an aunt and an uncle of whose existence he was previously unaware. He enjoys his first taste of family life until his work in a coal mine and his involvement with a union bring trouble. He then joins a circus in hopes of finding his father.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
1998.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
In her diary in 1912, thirteen-year-old Margaret Ann describes how she leaves her lonely life in a London orphanage to become a companion to a wealthy American woman, sails on the Titanic, and experiences its sinking.
8) Thornhill
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Parallel plotlines set in different times, one told in text and one in art, inform each other as a young girl unravels the mystery of a ghost next door"--
1982: Mary is a lonely orphan at the Thornhill Institute For Children at the very moment that it's shutting its doors. When her few friends are all adopted or re-homed and she's left to face a volatile bully alone, her revenge will have a lasting effect on the bully, on Mary, and on Thornhill...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
When unrest hits the streets of Havana, Cuba, Julian's parents must make the heartbreaking decision to send him and his two brothers away to Miami via the Pedro Pan operation. But when the boys get to Miami, they are thrust into a world where bullies seem to run rampant and it's not always clear how best to protect themselves. Inspired very much by his own experiences of leaving Cuba when he was a boy, Flores-Galbis offers up a coming-of-age story...
10) Mandy
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Longing for a place of her own, a ten-year-old orphan creates a secret home in a deserted cottage in the village of St. Martin's Green.
Author
Series
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
"... the beady-eyed, green-tongued witch Truda Hangnail spreads evil along her path to succeed Queen Bluebell, enlisting the kingdom's rats and shrinking the good witches of Wadingburn to pave her way to the throne. Luckily, a sweet-natured orphan named Loobly is witness to Truda's evil spells and sets off to fetch help."--Jacket flap.
14) Rory's promise
Author
Series
Hidden histories volume 1
Publisher
Calkins Creek
Pub. Date
�2014
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Rory Fitzpatrick loves her younger sister, Violet, more than anyone in the world. She has been Violet's only family ever since their parents died and they went to live at the Sisters of Charity Foundling Hospital in New York. Rory promised she would always protect her sister, would never leave her. So when Rory learns that the nuns are sending Violet to an adoptive family out West, Rory is determined to follow and keep her family together...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Told in multiple viewpoints, a tangle of knots is a magnificent puzzle. In a slightly magical world where everyone has a talent. Eleven-year-old Cady is an orphan with a phenomenal talent for cake baking. But little does she know that fate has set her on a journey from the moment she was born. And her destiny leads her to a mysterious address that houses a lost luggage emporium, an old recipe, a family of children searching for their own talents,...
Author
Series
Oracles of Delphi Keep volume 1
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 25
Language
English
Description
In 1938, three orphans--Theo, Carl, and Ian, ages ten to thirteen--lead three teachers through a portal that takes them from Dover, England, to Morocco in their quest to locate six silver boxes before the ancient prophecies therein are found by the evil Demogorgon's offspring.
17) The unadoptables
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
In all the years that Elinora Gassbeek has been matron of the Little Tulip Orphanage, not once have the Rules for Baby Abandonment been broken. Until the autumn of 1880, when five babies are left in outrageous circumstances; one in a tin toolbox, one in a coal bucket, one in a picnic hamper, one in a wheat sack, and finally, one in a coffin-shaped basket. Those babies were Lotta, Egg, Fenna, Sem, and Milou. And although their cruel matron might think...
Author
Series
Oracles of Delphi Keep volume 3
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
In 1940, when Delphi Keep is taken over by the Royal Navy as a communications outpost, Ian, Theo, and Carl dread being evacuated to the earl's winter residence where they will no longer be protected, but even more concerned about deciphering the third prophecy and identifying the Secret Keeper.
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