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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
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Language
English
Description
This is a "study of 'placing out,' a program that began in the 1850s and continued until the late 1920s. More than 200,000 urban children and adults were moved under social programs that put children into rural homes whenevertheir parents were deceased or were unable to care for them." (Choice) Index.
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
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old William Eng, a Chinese American boy, has lived at Seattle's Sacred Heart Orphanage ever since his mother's listless body was carried away from their small apartment five years ago. On his birthday - or rather, the day the nuns designate as his birthday - William and the other orphans are taken to the historical Moore Theatre, where William glimpses an actress on the silver screen who goes by the name of Willow Frost. Struck by her...
8) June
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
Wanted: Women with religious upbringing, high morals, and a strong sense of adventure, willing to marry decent, God-fearing men. Applicants may apply by mail. Must allow at least two months for an answer.
Like her sister before her, June leaves her Michigan home to embrace her future as a mail-order bride to a young Washington State pastor. But from the start, nothing works out as June expects. Caught up in her fiancé’s vision for an elaborate...
Author
Series
Miss Peregrine volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
"With his dying words, H---Jacob's final connection to his grandfather Abes's secret life--entrusts Jacob with a mission: Deliver newly contacted peculiar Noor Pradesh to an operative known as V"
Publisher
Genius Products
Pub. Date
2007
Language
Danish
Description
Jacob runs a struggling orphanage in one of India's poorest regions. Desperate to save an orphanage from closing, he returns to Denmark to meet Jorgen, a wealthy businessman and potential benefactor. What appears to be nothing more than a friendly gesture to attend a wedding sets in motion an increasingly devastating series of surprises, revelations, and confessions that will forever change their lives.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
"Two families, generations apart, are forever changed by a heartbreaking injustice in this poignant novel, inspired by a true story, for readers of Orphan Train and The Nightingale. Memphis, 1939. Twelve-year-old Rill Foss and her four younger siblings live a magical life aboard their family's Mississippi River shantyboat. But when their father must rush their mother to the hospital one stormy night, Rill is left in charge--until strangers arrive...
Author
Series
Miss Peregrine volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
"The last thing Jacob Portman saw before the world went dark was a terrible, familiar face. Suddenly, he and Noor are back in his grandfather's house. Jacob doesn't know how they escaped from V's loop, but he does know one thing for certain: Caul has returned. Risen from the Library of Souls, Caul and his apocalyptic agenda seem unstoppable. Only one hope remains--deliver Noor to the meeting place of the seven prophesied ones, if they can decipher...
Author
Publisher
Nightfire, Tor Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
"St. Vincent's Orphanage for Boys. Turn of the century, in a remote valley in Pennsylvania. Here, under the watchful eyes of several priests, thirty boys work, learn, and worship. Peter Barlow, orphaned as a child by a gruesome murder, has made a new life here. As he approaches adulthood, he has friends, a future...a family. Then, late one stormy night, a group of men arrive at their door, one of whom is badly wounded, occult symbols carved into his...
14) Hollow city
Author
Series
Miss Peregrine volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
"Having escaped Miss Peregrine's island by the skin of their teeth, Jacob and his new friends, who possess supernatural abilities, must journey to London (circa 1940), the 'peculiar' capital of the world. There they hope to find a cure for their beloved headmistress, Miss Peregrine. But in this war-torn city, hideous surprises lurk around every corner"--
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.
16) Annie
Language
English
Formats
Description
Annie is a young, happy foster kid who's also tough enough to make her way on the streets of New York. Originally left by her parents as a baby with the promise that they'd be back for her someday, it's been a hard knock life ever since with her mean foster mom Miss Hannigan. But everything's about to change when the hard-nosed tycoon and New York mayoral candidate Will Stacks, advised by his brilliant VP, Grace and Guy, makes a thinly-veiled campaign...
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