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Author
Pub. Date
2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
A series of unfortunate events, bk.5. As their outrageous misfortune continues, the Baudelaire orphans are shipped off to a miserable boarding school, where they befriend the two Quagmire triplets and find that they have been followed by the dreaded Count Olaf.
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
Series
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
1998
Physical Desc
133 p. ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Emily's father dies, leaving her an orphan, she is sent to live with a stern aunt in Prince Edward Island, where her resourcefulness and love of writing help her adjust to a new way of life.
Author
Pub. Date
c2012
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
"In the little town of Blackbird Tree live two orphan girls: one Naomi Deane, brimming with curiosity, and her best friend, Lizzie Scatterding, who could talk the ears off a cornfield. Naomi has a knack for being around when trouble happens. For she knows all the peculiar people in town--like Crazy Cora and Witch Wiggins and Mr. Farley. But then, one day, a boy drops out of a tree. The strangely charming Finn boy. Then the Dingle Dangle man appears,...
47) Nellie's promise
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Nellie and her sisters are about to be adopted by Samantha's family when her Uncle Mike shows up and threatens to ruin everything.
Author
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
A series of unfortunate events, bk.9. 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.
49) Ballet shoes
Publisher
Distributed by Koch Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (84 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Three girls adopted by an explorer are raised as sisters by his niece. As each of the girls have their own dreams, they learn that in order to realize them, they must also keep their family together.
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...
51) The proposal
Author
Series
The English garden volume 1
Publisher
Harvest House Publishers
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
Distraught to learn that her tyrannical brother has been granted custody of three children, Lydia and her husband Frank offer advice to William, who finds that the challenge of raising children offers unexpected rewards.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A magical island. A dangerous task. A burning secret. Linus Baker leads a quiet, solitary life. At forty, he lives in a tiny house with a devious cat and his old records. As a Case Worker at the Department in Charge Of Magical Youth, he spends his days overseeing the well-being of children in government-sanctioned orphanages. When Linus is unexpectedly summoned by Extremely Upper Management he's given a curious and highly classified assignment: travel...
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,...
54) 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...
Author
Series
A series of unfortunate events volume 6
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 7
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.
56) Water walker
Author
Series
Publisher
Worthy Publishing
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
310 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Alice Snow, a thirteen-year-old orphan, is abducted from her adopted home by a strange man claiming that her real mother is alive, and a frantic FBI manhunt ensues.
Author
Publisher
A. Whitman
Pub. Date
c.1966
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
128p., ill., pbk.
Language
English
Description
Four orphaned children used to live alone in a boxcar. Now they have a home with their grandfather, and in their new life encounter various adventures and mysteries.
60) 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.