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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
910L
Language
English
Formats
Description
A group of foster children build a home of their own.
A ghost saved twelve-year-old Maddie's life when she was an infant, her Granny Lane claims, so Maddie must always remember that she is special. But it's hard to feel special when you've spent your life shuffled from one foster home to another. And now that she's at the East Tennessee Children's Home, Maddie feels even less special. She longs for a place to call home. She even has a "book of houses"...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
570L
Language
English
Description
Having shared so many foster homes that they are unable to trust that the family that has adopted them will last, Flora and her brother, Julian, are assisted by their new mother on a journey to resolve their past so they can build a future.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
"Rynn was born with a hole in her heart--literally. Although it was fixed long ago, she still feels an emptiness there when she wonders about her birth family. As her relationship with her adoptive mother fractures, Rynn finally decides she needs to know more about the rest of her family. Her search starts with a name, the only thing she has from her birth mother, and she quickly learns that she has a younger sister living in foster care in a nearby...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
670L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Stranded for a year on the ground, after a crash landing from her broom, a little witch is taken in by the Doon family, a situation which causes compromises on both sides, many happy times, and ultimately a big change for the little witch.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
880L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Fourteen-year-old Hope visits her new foster mother's Nebraska farm and, through old letters, a diary, and stories, gets a vivid picture of the past in the voices of four girls her age who lived there in 1869, 1900, 1936, and 1960.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 17
Lexile measure
540L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Anne Shirley is an eleven-year-old orphan who has hung on determinedly to an optimistic spirit and a wildly creative imagination through her early deprivations. She erupts into the lives of aging brother and sister Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert, a girl instead of the boy they had sent for. Thus begins a story of transformation for all three; indeed the whole rural community of Avonlea comes under Anne's influence in some way. We see her grow from a...
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