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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
720L
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,...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
650L
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.
Author
Series
Winterborne home volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
"April thought she had her happy ending. After all, she has her new house and new friends and new guardian. But she also has a very big new secret. The kids of Winterborne House are the only ones who know that Gabriel Winterborne--famous billionaire and terrible cook--is really a sword-wielding vigilante. What they don't know is that he's not the only one. When a masked figure breaks in, looking for something--or someone--it's clear that Gabriel has...
Author
Series
Snow like ashes trilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 16
Lexile measure
930L
Language
English
Description
Orphaned Meira, a fierce chakram-wielding warrior from the Kingdom of Winter, must struggle to free her people from the tyranny of an opposing kingdom while also protecting her own destiny.
Author
Series
Willoughbys volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
790L
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"--Title verso page.
Author
Series
A series of unfortunate events volume 9
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
1120L
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
Snow like ashes trilogy volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 17
Lexile measure
910L
Language
English
Description
When Cordellan debt forces the Winterians to dig their mines for payment, they unearth something powerful and possibly dangerous: Primoria's lost chasm of magic. Theron sees this find as an opportunity -- with this much magic, the world can finally stand against threats like Angra. But Meira fears the danger the chasm poses -- the last time the world had access to so much magic, it spawned the Decay.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
1110L
Language
English
Description
Violet, Klaus, and Sunny disguise themselves as cheerful hospital volunteers after they are falsely accused of murder in order to find clues concerning their parents' deaths and are pursued by Count Olaf who is after their fortune.
Author
Series
Molly Moon volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
770L
Language
English
Description
Unlucky and unloved, Molly Moon, living in a dreary orphanage in a small English town, discovers a hidden talent for hypnotism and hypnotizes her way to stardom in New York City.
10) Gathering blue
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
680L
Language
English
Description
Lamed and suddenly orphaned, Kira is mysteriously removed from her squalid village to live in the palatial Council Edifice, where she is expected to use her gifts as a weaver to do the bidding of the all-powerful Guardians.
Author
Series
Molly Moon volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
800L
Language
English
Description
Believing that she has been sent to Los Angeles by her librarian friend, Lucy Logan, to stop an evil plot by the wealthy Primo Cell, Molly Moon and her friend Roger, orphans with unusual hypnotic powers, find themselves in danger from an unsuspected source.
12) Ruby Holler
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
660L
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old fraternal twins Dallas and Florida have grown up in a terrible orphanage but their lives change forever when an eccentric but sweet older couple invites them each on an adventure, beginning in an almost magical place called Ruby Holler.
13) The vile village
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
1080L
Language
English
Description
Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire are wisked off to the village of V.F.D. where a council of elders have enacted thousands of rules about the thousands of crows that inhabit the town and are protected by handyman Hector against Count Olaf, who is after the children's fortune.
14) The false prince
Author
Series
Ascendance novels volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
710L
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.
Author
Language
English
Description
Orphaned in the cholera epidemic of 1883, Adria Starr was found by a slave named Louis, a man who passed up the opportunity to escape his bondage and instead tended to the sick and buried the dead. Adria needed a caring family, and Louis helped to bring her together with Aunt Ruth, a newly widowed schoolteacher. Twelve years later, Louis is being sold by his owners despite his heroic actions. Now nineteen, Adria has never forgotten what Louis did...
Author
Series
A series of unfortunate events volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
1120L
Language
English
Description
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.
17) The end
Author
Series
A series of unfortunate events volume 13
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
NC 1370L
Language
English
Description
This book is the last in A Series of Unfortunate Events, and even if you braved the previous twelve volumes, you probably can't stand such unpleasantries as a fearsome storm,a suspicious beverage, a herd of wild sheep, an enormous bird cage, and a truly haunting secret about the Baudelaire parents.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
960L
Language
English
Description
In 1909, after spending several months back at the Lovell House Home for Orphaned and Abandoned Boys, eleven-year-old Gib returns to live on the Thornton ranch, where his natural way with horses helps to make him feel at home. A companion to "Gib Rides Home." Leaving the Lovell House Orphanage for the second time, Gib Whittaker goes to live with the Thornton family and takes care of the family's beautiful thoroughbred Black Silk. When a strange, severely...
20) The grim grotto
Author
Series
A series of unfortunate events volume 11
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
1040L
Language
English
Description
The Baudelaire orphans attempt to reach an important VFD meeting, but first they must travel in an old submarine to the Gorgonian Grotto, a dangerous underwater cave, in search of a sugar bowl.
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