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Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 9
Physical Desc
246 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Despite the harsh treatment he has endured at the Lovell House orphanage, ten-year-old Gib Whittaker manages to maintain his hopeful outlook when he is "farmed out" to help with the horses of a wealthy banker in 1908.
Author
Series
The Folk of the Air volume 1
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
Jude was seven years old when her parents were murdered and she and her two sisters were stolen away to live in the treacherous High Court of Faerie. Ten years later, Jude wants to belong there, despite her mortality. But many of the fey despise humans. Especially Prince Cardan, the youngest and wickedest son of the High King. To win a place at the Court, she must defy him and face the consequences. In doing so, she becomes embroiled in palace intrigues...
Author
Language
English
Description
This heartwarming story has beckoned generations of readers into the special world of Green Gables, an old-fashioned farm outside a town called Avonlea. Anne Shirley, an eleven-year-old orphan, has arrived in this verdant corner of Prince Edward Island only to discover that the Cuthberts—elderly Matthew and his stern sister, Marilla—want to adopt a boy, not a feisty redheaded girl. But before they can send her back, Anne—who simply must have...
Author
Series
Daniel X volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Daniel has followed in his parents' footsteps as the Alien Hunter, exterminating beings on The List of Alien Outlaws on Terra Firma, but when he faces his first of the top ten outlaws, the very existence of Earth and another planet are at stake.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2002
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
In 1938, with the help of a doctor and her elderly, horse-thieving father, a seventeen-year-old orphan steals thirteen horses from Chickalookee, Florida's doomed rodeo, and finds a family in the process.
Author
Series
Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children volume 1
Publisher
Quirk Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
A horrific family tragedy sends sixteen-year-old Jacob journeying to a remote island off the coast of Wales, where he discovers the crumbling ruins of an old orphanage that was home to children who were more than just peculiar, but possibly dangerous--and who may still be alive. Illustrated with vintage found photographs.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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Description
The struggle of three brothers to stay together after their parent's death and their quest for identity among the conflicting values of their adolescent society. When it was first published in 1967, The Outsiders defied convention with its immediate, deeply sympathetic portrayal of Ponyboy and his struggle to find a place for himself in a difficult world. Thirty years later, it speaks to teenagers as powerfully as ever.
Author
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
1st Simon Pulse hardcover ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 13
Physical Desc
404 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Ten years after surviving the tornado that killed his parents, Vane Weston has no memory of that day but dreams of a girl who, he now learns she is his guardian sylph, who harnesses the power of the wind.
Author
Series
Miss Peregrine's peculiar children volume 4
Publisher
Dutton Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
Miss Peregrine, Emma and her peculiar friends are back in Florida with Jacob Portman. They discover a subterranean bunker that belonged to Jacob's grandfather, Abe. Clues to Abe's double life as a peculiar operative start to emerge, revealing secrets long hidden in plain sight. Jacob begins to learn about the dangerous legacy he has inherited - truths that were part of him long before he walked into Miss Peregrine's time loop.
Author
Series
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 6
Physical Desc
243 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
As Daniel X continues to hunt for intergalactic aliens, he and his friends go to England searching for Beta, an outlaw who takes the form of fire and who killed Daniel's parents when he was two years old.
11) The prey
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
First Edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 11
Physical Desc
404 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
After the apocalyptic Omega, a group of orphaned teen boys learn of their dark fate and escape and join forces with twin girls who have been imprisoned for the "good of the Republic," as they all must find the best in themselves to fight against their enemies.
12) Scars like wings
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 12
Physical Desc
376 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
One year after the fire that claimed her parents' and cousin's lives and left her severely disfigured, sixteen-year-old Ava faces the return to high school.
13) Threatened
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2014
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 14
Physical Desc
278 pages ; map, 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When an orphan living in debt slavery meets a professor on a mysterious mission, they head off into the jungle to study elusive chimpanzees.
14) Scorpia /Book 5
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
After being told that his father was an assassin for a criminal organization, fourteen-year-old Alex goes to Italy to find out more and becomes involved in a plan to kill thousands of English school children.
15) The winter place
Author
Pub. Date
2015
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 15
Physical Desc
438 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Upon their father's death, Tess and her younger brother, Axel, leave New York for their grandparents' home in Finland, where they learn that a bear they both saw is the spirit of their mother, the strange man with her is the keeper of souls, and he wants Axel, already plagued with the disease that killed their mother, to replace him.
16) The wicked king
Author
Series
[The Folk of the Air volume 2
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
As administrative officer to High King Cardan, Jude must fight to keep control of the Faerie throne while her younger brother, Oak, enjoys the childhood she never knew.
17) Library of souls
Author
Series
Publisher
Quirk Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
Time is running out for the Peculiar Children. With a dangerous madman on the loose and their beloved Miss Peregrine still in danger, Jacob Portman and Emma Bloom are forced to stage the most daring of rescue missions. They'll travel through a war-torn landscape, meet new allies, and face greater dangers than ever. Will Jacob come into his own as the hero his fellow Peculiars know him to be? (Features more than 50 all-new Peculiar photographs.)
18) Delirium
Author
Publisher
Harper
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
Lena looks forward to receiving the government-mandated cure that prevents the delirium of love and leads to a safe, predictable, and happy life, until right before her eighteenth birthday and her treatment, when she falls in love.
19) Dauntless
Author
Series
Valiant hearts volume 1
Publisher
Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
365 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Timothy Grey, longing to set his name in legend, encounters the notorious Ghosts of Farthingale Forest, a band of orphans, and their leader, Lady Merry Ellison, currently considered an enemy of the throne.
20) Clockwork prince
Author
Series
The infernal devices volume 2
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 22
Physical Desc
502 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
As the Council attempts to strip Charlotte of her power, shapechanger Tessa Gray works with the London Shadowhunters to find the Magister and destroy his clockwork army, learning the secret of her own identity while investigating his past.