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61) Safe and sound
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Isabelle Flanders Tookus isn't expecting to involve the Sisterhood in a new mission when she strikes up a friendship with a curly-haired boy in her local park. Ben Ryan is eight years old, sweet, funny and smarter than most adults, a child genius, in fact. He's also in much deeper danger than he realises. Ben is the grandson of millionaire Eleanor Lymen, who hired Izzy years ago to design an institute for gifted children. Ben's mother passed away...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Formats
Description
Moving his young bride to an isolated lighthouse home on Australia's Janus Rock where the couple suffers miscarriages and a stillbirth, Tom allows his wife to claim an infant that has washed up on the shore, a decision with devastating consequences.
64) The false prince
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
In the country of Carthya, a devious nobleman engages four orphans in a brutal competition to be selected to impersonate the king's long-missing son in an effort to avoid a civil war.
66) The wonderling
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 14
Physical Desc
450 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Follows the experiences of a foxlike foundling with one ear who endures an oppressive life in an orphanage for half-animal humans until an unexpected act of courage leads to a friendship and a quest to discover his destiny.
67) The grim grotto
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Still pursued by the evil Count Olaf, the Baudelaire orphans attempt to reach a very important VFD meeting, but first they must travel in a rattletrap submarine to the Gorgonian Grotto, a dangerous underwater cave, in search of the sugar bowl.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
294 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
A prequel to the Lucky Santangelo series features a headstrong teenaged Lucky, who after the murder of her mother escapes her notorious father's protective stranglehold to pursue a life of sex, drugs, and rock-and-roll.
69) Oliver Twist
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Oliver Twist is a poor orphan boy cruelly treated in the public workhouse. Pennyless and hungry, he runs away to London, only to fall into the clutches of a gang of thieves and pickpockets led by the master criminal, Fagin. Befriended by a man robbed by the gang, Oliver ultimately learns his true identity and gains a home, a fortune, and a family. --Amazon.com
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....
71) Despicable me
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (95 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Gru delights in all things wicked. Surrounded by an army of tireless little yellow minions, and armed with his arsenal of shrink rays, freeze rays, and battle-ready vehicles for land and air, he vanquishes all who stand in his way. Until the day he encounters the immense will of three little orphaned girls who look at him and see something that no one else has ever seen, a potential dad.
Author
Publisher
Scott Publishing
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
456 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
It is September 1940, Maggie and her young siblings, Grace and Billy, are living in the East End of London with their mother. Their father has been killed at Dunkirk and their mother goes into hospital to have her fourth child, leaving the children with a neighbour. In one of the worst bombing raids of the war their home is destroyed and the neighbour is killed. Bewildered and frightened, the children wander the streets until they are taken in by...
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray
Pub. Date
c2012
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 24
Physical Desc
470 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In the early 1990s, when gay teenager Cameron Post rebels against her conservative Montana ranch town and her family decides she needs to change her ways, she is sent to a gay conversion therapy center.
74) The Willoughbys
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
In this tongue-in-cheek take on classic themes in children's literature, the four Willoughby children set about to become "deserving orphans" after their neglectful parents embark on a treacherous around-the-world adventure, leaving them in the care of an odious nanny.
75) The devil's own
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Of the lot, this man was still her best bet. He not only looked the most inebriated, but the most disreputable – lean and hungry and totally without principle. Once he was sober, he would no doubt be easy to buy. "Sister" Kerry Bishop got more than she bargained for when she entered the seedy bar seeking the services of a man, more particularly a mercenary. Linc O'Neal wasn't the soldier of fortune Kerry mistook him for…but he proved to be...
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Landmark
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
304 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"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 forest meets the shore, Leah's country life is as natural as the Loblolly pines that rise to greet the Southern sky. When an accident takes her father's life, Leah is wrenched from her small community...
77) Orphan #8
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
381, 19 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
When hospice nurse, Rachel, realizes that her new patient is the doctor that spent years subjecting her to tortuous medical experiments at a Jewish orphanage, she is forced to confront her memories of the time and their lasting effect.
Author
Publisher
Green Place Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
332 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"When the body of Alison Goss washes up on Menhaden Island, in the Gulf of Maine, the working-class fishing community of hard-hewn ways and salty perspectives is faced with handling the future of her unusual son, Faron. They soon discover how different he is, in strange but endearing ways, including his fascination with moths and his stunning artistic talent. Bound together by weather and sea, Menhaden neighbors with good hearts and blunt opinions...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
In the perilous Mortmain Mountains, Klaus and Violet Baudelaire meet another well-read person, who helps them try to rescue Sunny from the villainous Count Olaf and his henchmen as they all near "the last safe place."
80) The night house
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First United States edition.
Physical Desc
245 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"From the internationally best-selling author, a twisted, multi-layered spin on the classic horror novel In the wake of his parents' tragic deaths in a house fire, fourteen-year-old Richard Elauved has been sent to live with his aunt and uncle in the remote, insular town of Ballantyne. Richard quickly earns a reputation as an outcast, and when a classmate named Tom goes missing, everyone suspects the new, angry boy is responsible for his disappearance....