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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
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.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
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
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.
6) The BFG
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Kidsnatched from her orphanage by a BFG (Big Friendly Giant), who spends his life blowing happy dreams to children, Sophie concocts with him a plan to save the world from nine other man-gobbling cannybull giants.
Author
Language
English
Description
The sole survivor of a brutal family massacre twenty years earlier, Kars McIntyre, when the person believed to be responsible for the killings is released, wonders how many times she can be the girl who survived as people around her die horrible deaths.
All her life, she's been the girl who survived. Orphaned at age seven after a horrific killing spree at her family's Oregon cabin, Kara McIntyre is still searching for some kind of normal. But now,...
10) The guardian
Author
Series
Home to Hickory Hollow volume 3
Language
English
Description
After schoolteacher Jodi Winfield finds a little girl on the side of the road, she delves into the isolated community of the Lancaster Old Order Amish to find answers.
11) 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
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
358 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"In one of the year's most anticipated thrillers #1 New York Times bestseller Sarah Pekkanen calls "Alex Finlay's best yet." What Have We Done is a tale about the lives we leave behind and the secrets we carry with us forever. A stay-at-home mom with a past. A has-been rock star with a habit. A reality TV producer with a debt. Three disparate lives. One deadly secret. Twenty five years ago, Jenna, Donnie, and Nico were the best of friends, a bond...
14) Royal: a novel
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...
15) The wide window
Author
Series
Series of unfortunate events volume 3
Publisher
HarperTrophy
Pub. Date
2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
214 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
Language
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.
Author
Series
Series of unfortunate events volume 6
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 7
Physical Desc
259 p.: ill.; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
The woeful saga of the Baudelaire orphans continues as evil Count Olaf discovers their whereabouts at Esme Squalor's seventy-one bedroom penthouse and concocts a new plan for stealing their family fortune.
Author
Series
Publisher
Bantam Doubleday Dell Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c1988
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 6
Physical Desc
150 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Michael Patrick Kelly from New York City is sent to a foster home, a Missouri farm with a sadistic owner, a bullying son, and a number of secrets, one of which may be murder.
18) With you always
Author
Series
Publisher
Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Physical Desc
359 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When a financial crisis in 1850s New York leaves three orphaned sisters nearly destitute, the oldest, Elise Neumann, knows she must take action. She's had experience as a seamstress, and the New York Children's Aid Society has established a special service: placing out seamstresses and trade girls. Even though Elise doesn't want to leave her sisters for a job in Illinois, she realizes this may be their last chance. The son of one of New York City's...
19) The Reptile Room
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.
20) 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.