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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....
43) Daddy-Long-Legs
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 6
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English
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All sorts of things begin to happen when an orphaned boarding school student finally meets the wealthy guardian with whom she has corresponded for years sight unseen.
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Daniel X volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 5
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English
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The greatest superpower of all isn't to be part spider, part man, or to cast magic spells, the greatest power is the power to create. Daniel has that power. Daniel's secret abilities, like being able to manipulate objects and animals with his mind or to recreate himself in any shape he chooses, have helped him survive. But Daniel doesn't have a normal life. He is the protector of the earth, the Alien Hunter, with a mission beyond what anyone could...
45) The humming room
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 6
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English
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Twelve-year-old orphan Roo Fanshaw is sent to live with an uncle she never knew in a largely uninhabited mansion on Cough Rock Island and discovers a wild river boy, an invalid cousin, and the mysteries of a hidden garden.
46) Missing sisters
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Twelve-year-old Alice, an orphan who has never been adopted because of her physical handicap and difficult personality, is shocked to discover she has an identical twin sister living nearby.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 2
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English
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Henry, Jessie, Vioet and Benny Alden are brothers and sisters - and tehy're orphans. The only way they can stay together is to make it on their own. One night, during a storm, the children find an old red boxcar that keeps them warm and safe. They decide to make it their home.
48) The false prince
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Ascendance trilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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In a discontent kingdom, civil war is brewing. To unify the divided people, Conner, a nobleman of the court, devises a cunning plan to find an impersonator of the king's long-lost son and install him as a puppet prince. Four orphans are recruited to compete for the role, including a defiant boy named Sage. Sage knows that Conner's motives are more than questionable, yet his life balances on a sword's point -- he must be chosen to play the prince or...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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When lonely Ravani Foster discovers his new friend Virginia and her six mysterious runaway companions are in danger, he must fight to keep them safe, or lose the only person who has ever understood him.
In the dead of night, a truck arrives in Slaughterville, a small town curiously named after its windowless slaughterhouse. Seven mysterious kids with suitcases step out of the vehicle and into an abandoned home on a dead-end street, looking over their...
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Winterborne home volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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"April thought she had her happy ending. After all, she has her new house and new friends and new guardian. But she also has a very big new secret. The kids of Winterborne House are the only ones who know that Gabriel Winterborne--famous billionaire and terrible cook--is really a sword-wielding vigilante. What they don't know is that he's not the only one. When a masked figure breaks in, looking for something--or someone--it's clear that Gabriel has...
51) About that man
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Daisy Spencer's name is on everybody's lips... How could the sensible daughter of Trinity Harbor's self-proclaimed patriarch have taken in the boy caught hot-wiring her car? Whether the boy is a modern-day Huck Finn or not, Trinity Harbor is in an uproar. But for Daisy, guiding the orphaned ten-year-old is easy, an escape from her own tragic past. She can ignore the town's nay-saying. The only real obstacle is... that man. That man is the boy's uncle,...
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A series of unfortunate events volume 12
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 7
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English
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The Baudelaire orphans begin their journey in a cab with a distraught pregnant woman named Kit Snicket while on route to the Hotel Denouement and must pose as concierges while trying to ferret out the secrets of the elusive sugar bowl.
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"A searing book club novel for fans of Where the Crawdad's Sing and The Girls in the Stilt House following one girl fighting for her family, her body, and her right to create a future all her own. Some folks will do anything to control the wild spirit of a Carolina girl... For fourteen-year-old Leah Payne, life in her beloved coastal Carolina town is as simple as it is free. Devoted to her lumberjack father and running through the wilds where the...
55) Sustaining faith
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When hope calls volume 2
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English
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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...
56) Me and Billy
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
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English
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After escaping the orphanage where they have spent their lives together, two boys become assistants to a con artist, and while Possum objects to the lying, stealing, and cheating, Billy only cares about making money and taking life easy.
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A series of unfortunate events volume 3
Publisher
HarperTrophy
Pub. Date
�2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 5
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English
Description
Catastrophes and misfortune continue to plague the Baudelaire orphans after they're sent to live with fearful Aunt Josephine who offers little protection against Count Olaf's treachery.
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Seasons of the heart (Janette Oke) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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An orphaned boy finds his security in God after his aunt, who has raised him, marries and moves away.
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English
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At the beginning of Gene Stratton-Porter's thoroughly uplifting novel Michael O'Halloran, the protagonist is a scrappy 10-year-old orphan who must literally fight every day to ensure his own survival. It is only when he stumbles across a little girl facing circumstances even more dire than his own that he begins to make plans for a new life for himself. Will his grandiose vision become reality, or will Michael O'Halloran succumb to the
...60) The dark frigate
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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In seventeenth-century England, orphaned Philip Marsham, forced to flee London after a terrible accident, finds himself in an even more difficult situation when his ship is taken over by pirates and he is forced to become a member of their crew.
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