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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sent to America at age nine with nothing but an old guitar, Frankie Presto achieves success on the mid-twentieth-century music scene before becoming overburdened by his ability to affect people's futures through his music.
2) The end
Author
Series
A series of unfortunate events volume the 13th
A series of unfortunate events volume the 11th
Series of unfortunate events volume 13
A series of unfortunate events volume the 11th
Series of unfortunate events volume 13
Publisher
HarperCollins
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
Lost at sea, the Baudelaire orphans, along with the evil Count Olaf, wash up on the shore of an island populated by an oddly placid group of inhabitants, and they try to decide whether or not they are truly safe.
Author
Publisher
Threshold Editions
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
1st Threshold Editions hardcover ed.
Physical Desc
x, 284 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
A holiday tale relates the story of a thirteen-year-old boy whose final gift from his mother, a sweater, is scorned in favor of more expensive gifts before a tragic car accident ends the mother's life.
5) Iron house
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
Two decades after a pair of orphaned brothers are separated when one of them flees after a murder accusation, the runaway brother, now a seasoned killer, returns to North Carolina to protect his brother and solve the mystery of their past.
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
272 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Summer, 1943. The King and Queen choose to send their youngest daughter, Princess Charlotte, to live with a noble family in the country. Despite her headstrong nature, the princess's fragile health poses far too great a risk for her to remain in war-torn London. She arrives in Yorkshire under an alias; only her guardians know her true identity. Charlotte befriends a young evacuee, trains with her cherished horse-- and falls deeply in love with her...
Author
Language
English
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....
Author
Pub. Date
1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
A series of unfortunate events, bk.2. After narrowly escaping the menacing clutches of the dastardly Count Olaf, the three Baudelaire orphans are taken in by a kindly herpetologist with whom they live happliy for an all-too-brief time.
Author
Series
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 9
Physical Desc
230 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1909, after spending several months back at the Lovell House Home for Orphaned and Abandoned Boys, eleven-year-old Gib returns to live on the Thornton ranch, where his natural way with horses helps to make him feel at home.
Author
Language
English
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Formats
Description
1932, Minnesota. The Lincoln School is a pitiless place where hundreds of Native American children, forcibly separated from their parents, are sent to be educated. It is also home to an orphan named Odie O'Banion, a lively boy whose exploits earn him the superintendent's wrath. Forced to flee, he and his brother Albert, their best friend Mose, and a little girl named Emmy steal away in a canoe, heading for the mighty Mississippi and a place to call...
12) The Wide Window
Author
Pub. Date
2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
A series of unfortunate events, bk.3. Castastrophes 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.
Author
Pub. Date
1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
A series of unfortunate events, bk.1. After the sudden death of their parents, the three Baudelaire children must depend on each other and their wits when it turns out that the distant relative who is appointed their guardian is determined to use any means necessary to get their fortune.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
A series of unfortunate events, bk.4. Accidents, evil plots, and general misfortune abound when, in their continuing search for a home, the Baudelaire orphans are sent to live and work in a sinister lumbermill.
Author
Series
A series of unfortunate events volume 9
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
On the run as suspected murderers, the unlucky Baudelaire orphans find themselves trapped in the Caligari Carnival, where they must masquerade as freaks in order to hide from the evil Count Olaf.
Author
Language
English
Description
"Abandoned by her mother at age seven, Alexandra Winslow took solace in the mystery stories she read with her devoted father--and soon she was writing them herself, slowly graduating to dark, violent, complex crime stories that reflected skill and imagination far beyond her years. After her father's early death, at fourteen Alex is taken in by the nuns of a local convent, where she finds twenty-six mothers to take the place of the one she lost, and...
Author
Language
English
Description
National Book Award Finalist?Fiction In the aftermath of the Civil War, an aging itinerant news reader agrees to transport a young captive of the Kiowa back to her people in this exquisitely rendered, morally complex, multilayered novel of historical fiction from the author of Enemy Women that explores the boundaries of family, responsibility, honor, and trust. In the wake of the Civil War, Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd travels through northern Texas,...
19) Hounded
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Carpenter gets a mysterious phone call from a good friend, policeman Pete Stanton, asking him to drop everything, drive to an unfamiliar address, and bring his girlfriend, Laurie Collins. Pete has just discovered the body of ex-convict Danny Diza. Upstairs are Danny's now orphaned eight-year-old son and basset hound. And that, Andy discovers, is why he and Laurie were called to the scene-- Pete wants them to take care of the boy and the dog so they...
20) Orphan Island
Author
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
On an island where one child is delivered each year while the eldest is taken away, nine children live under the leadership of new elder Jinny, who trains the latest newcomer and wonders what will happen when her own departure occurs.