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1) Anne of Green Gables

Author

Montgomery, L. M

Accelerated Reader

IL: MG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 17

Lexile measure

970L

Language

English

Formats

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

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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...

2) 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...

3) Oliver Twist

Author

Dickens, Charles

Accelerated Reader

IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 2

Lexile measure

990L

Language

English

Formats

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

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Born and raised in the appalling deprivation of a Victorian-era London workhouse, the orphan Oliver escapes the drudgery of apprenticeship only to fall into the hands of the notorious Fagin and his gang of child thieves. But Oliver is an innocent at heart and the attempts by Fagin and the impudently witty Artful Dodger to teach the boy the trick of the pick-pocket's trade lead only to his almost immediate capture. Oliver's rescue by the kindly Mr....

4) Freckles

Author

Stratton-Porter, Gene

Series

Library of Indiana classics
Limberlost
Puffin classics
Dover children's evergreen classics

Accelerated Reader

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

Language

English

Formats

Book, Audiobook CD, eAudiobook, eBook

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Set in the Limberlost Swamp area of Indiana, “Freckles” is American writer and naturalist Gene Stratton-Porter's 1904 novel about the titular character, a one-handed adult orphan who takes a job guarding timber in the swamp. Freckles has lived all his life in a Chicago orphanage and has been missing his right hand as long as he can remember. Now an adult, he is hired on by the Grand Rapids lumber company to guard their valuable timber in the Limberlost...

5) Great expectations

Author

Dickens, Charles

Accelerated Reader

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

Lexile measure

1200L

Language

English

Formats

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

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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...