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1) The Secret Garden /

Author

Burnett, Frances Hodgson

Accelerated Reader

IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 13

Lexile measure

AD 950L

Language

English

Formats

Book, Audiobook Cassette, Audiobook CD, Book + CD, CD + Book, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle, Large Print, Playaway, Playaway Bookpack

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Revisit the hallowed halls of the Misselthwaite Manor in this new edition of the classic novel, The Secret Garden, presented with eye-catching manga-style artwork.Young Mary Lennox is left an orphan when her parents die of illness while living abroad in India. Raised primarily by servants, Mary is left to mourn the loss of her inattentive parents before eventually being sent under the care of her Uncle in Yorkshire, England. It's there in Misselthwaite...

2) Great expectations

Author

Dickens, Charles

Accelerated Reader

IL: UG - BL: 9.2 - AR Pts: 35

Lexile measure

1150L

Language

English

Formats

Book, Audiobook CD, eAudiobook, eBook, Graphic Novel, Kindle, Large Print, Manuscript, Playaway

Description

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"Great Expectations is the thirteenth novel by Charles Dickens and his penultimate completed novel: a bildungsroman that depicts the personal growth and personal development of an orphan nicknamed Pip. It is Dickens's second novel, after David Copperfield, to be fully narrated in the first person. The novel was first published as a serial in Dickens's weekly periodical All the Year Round, from 1 December 1860 to August 1861. In October 1861, Chapman...

3) ...David Copperfield, a novel

Author

Dickens, Charles

Accelerated Reader

IL: UG - BL: 9.5 - AR Pts: 66

Lexile measure

1070L

Language

English

Formats

Book, Audiobook CD, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle, Manuscript, Playaway, Software

Description

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A classic tale of an orphan growing up in the 1800's of England. Intimately rooted in the author's own biography and written as a first-person narrative, "David Copperfield" charts a young man's progress through a difficult childhood in Victorian England to ultimate success as a novelist, finding true love along the way.

4) Heidi

Author

Spyri, Johanna

Accelerated Reader

IL: MG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 16

Lexile measure

1000L

Language

English

Formats

Book, Audiobook CD, CD + Book, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle, Large Print

Description

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An introduction to the story for younger readers. It has been sensitively abridged and retold to make it suitable for sharing with young children from 5+, whilst retaining all the key parts of the story including Heidi's friendship with Peter, her life in Frankfurt with Clara, and fascinating details about life in the mountains

5) The jungle book

Series

Disney DVD
Disney Blu-ray

Language

English

Formats

Blu-ray, Blu-ray / DVD Combo, DVD

Description

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Meet the most unforgettable characters and embark on a thrilling adventure with Mowgli as he journeys deep into the jungle and learns 'The Bare Necessities' of life from happy-go-lucky Baloo the bear. Meet Bagheera, the wise old panther, and crazy King Louie, the orangutan. But watch out for the cunning tiger Shere Khan and Kaa, the sneakiest snake in the jungle! It is an extraordinary adventure and a heartwarming tale that celebrates the true meaning...

6) Despicable me 3

Language

English

Formats

4K Blu-ray, Blu-ray, Blu-ray / DVD Combo, DVD

Description

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After he is fired from the Anti-Villain League for failing to take down Balthazar Bratt, the latest bad guy to threaten humanity, Gru finds himself in the midst of a major identity crisis. But when a mysterious stranger shows up to inform Gru that he has a long-lost twin brother - a brother who desperately wishes to follow in his twin's despicable footsteps - one former super-villain will rediscover just how good it feels to be bad.

7) News of the world

Language

English

Formats

4K Blu-ray, DVD

Description

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A Civil War veteran agrees to deliver a girl, taken by the Kiowa people years ago, to her aunt and uncle, against her will. They travel hundreds of miles and face grave dangers as they search for a place that either can call home.

8) Eragon

Language

English

Formats

Blu-ray, DVD

Description

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Eragon is an orphaned farm boy whose destiny is sealed forever when a mystic stone chooses him for its keeper. This is no ordinary stone, this is the last surviving egg of the dragon race. Eragon is now the new Dragon Rider, the boy who will be a savior to the repressed peoples of the Kingdom. The Kingdom is ruled by the wicked King Galbatorix and his evil wizard Durza. Eragon, together with his mentor, Brom, the gracious dragon Saphira and the beautiful...

9) This tender land: a novel

Author

Krueger, William Kent

Series

Thorndike Press large print basic

Language

English

Formats

Book, Audiobook CD, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle, Large Print, Playaway

Description

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1932, Minnesota. The Lincoln School is a pitiless place where hundreds of Native American children, forcibly separated from their parents, are sent to be educated. It is also home to an orphan named Odie O'Banion, a lively boy whose exploits earn him the superintendent's wrath. Forced to flee, he and his brother Albert, their best friend Mose, and a little girl named Emmy steal away in a canoe, heading for the mighty Mississippi and a place to call...

10) Anne of Green Gables

Language

English

Description

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An elderly bachelor and his spinster sister adopt an orphan and are mistakenly sent a girl instead of a boy. The orphan, Anne, remains with the couple, moves from one mishap to another, succeeds academically, and finds love. "Megan Follows, Tony Award winner Colleen Dewhurst and Academy Award nominee Richard Farnsworth give unparalleled performances in this critically acclaimed motion picture, based on the international best-selling novel. Filmed...

11) The Oysterville sewing circle

Author

Wiggs, Susan

Language

English

Formats

Book, Audiobook CD, eAudiobook, eBook, Large Print, Playaway

Description

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The #1 New York Times bestselling author brings us her most ambitious and provocative work yet-a searing and timely novel that explores the most volatile issue of our time-domestic violence. At the break of dawn, Caroline Shelby rolls into Oysterville, Washington, a tiny hamlet at the edge of the raging Pacific. She's come home. Home to a place she thought she'd left forever, home of her heart and memories, but not her future. Ten years ago, Caroline...

12) Pan

Pub. Date

[2015]

Language

English

Formats

Blu-ray, DVD

Description

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Peter is a mischievous twelve-year old boy with an irrepressible rebellious streak, but in the bleak London orphanage where he has lived his whole life those qualities do not exactly fly. Then one incredible night, Peter is whisked away from the orphanage and spirited off to a fantastical world of pirates, warriors and fairies called Neverland. There, he finds amazing adventures and fights life-or-death battles while trying to uncover the secret of...

13) Leap!

Language

English

Description

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An orphan girl dreams of becoming a ballerina and flees her rural Brittany for Paris, where she passes for someone else and accedes to the position of pupil at the Grand Opera house.

14) Lemony Snicket's A series of unfortunate events

Series

Full screen DVD collection

Language

English

Description

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Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire are taken in by a series of oddball relatives and others after their wealthy parents are killed in a fire. The first to take them in is the dastardly and cunning Count Olaf, who is only interested in their inheritance.

15) 12 Mighty orphans

Pub. Date

[2021]

Language

English

Formats

Blu-ray, DVD

Description

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The true story of the Mighty Mites, the football team of a Fort Worth orphanage who, during the Great Depression, went from playing without shoes, or even a football, to playing for the Texas state championships. Over the course of their winning season, these underdogs and their resilient spirit became an inspiration to their city, state, and an entire nation in need of a rebound, even catching the attention of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. The...

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1) The Secret Garden /

2) Great expectations

3) ...David Copperfield, a novel

4) Heidi

5) The jungle book

6) Despicable me 3

7) News of the world

8) Eragon

9) This tender land: a novel

10) Anne of Green Gables

11) The Oysterville sewing circle

12) Pan

13) Leap!

14) Lemony Snicket's A series of unfortunate events

15) 12 Mighty orphans