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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
840L
Language
English
Description
Orphaned sisters Sabrina and Daphne are sent to live with their mysterious grandmother, Relda Grimm, who lives in a town in rural New York State that experiences an extraordinary number of unexplained and unusual crimes. In this book, the girls are pitted against a giant who has been rampaging through town. But who set the giant loose?
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
960L
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Miss Penelope Lumley, a governess trained at the Swanburne Academy for Poor Bright Females, takes the three Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place to London, England, and learns they are under a curse.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
1050L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Penelope Tredwell is the feisty thirteen-year-old orphan heiress of Victorian Britain's bestselling magazine, the Penny Dreadful. Her spine-chilling tales--concealed under the pen name Montgomery Finch--are gripping the public. One day she receives a letter from the governor of the Bedlam madhouse requesting Finch's help to investigate the asylum's strange goings-on. Every night at precisely twelve minutes to midnight, the inmates all begin feverishly...
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Series
Wolves Chronicles volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
900L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Simon, the foundling from the earlier book, The wolves of Willoughy Chase, arrives in London to meet an old friend and pursue the study of painting, but he finds himself in the middle of a wicked crew's plan to overthrow good King James and the Duke and Duchess of Battersea.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
820L
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the West Virginia town of Way Down Deep in the 1950s, a foundling called Ruby June is happily living with Miss Arbutus at the local boarding house when suddenly, after the arrival of a family of outsiders, the mystery of Ruby's past begins to unravel.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
1000L
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Miss Penelope Lumley, a recent graduate of the Swanburne Academy for Poor Bright Females, is hired as governess to three young children who have been raised by wolves and must teach them to behave in a civilized manner quickly, in preparation for a Christmas ball.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
850L
Language
English
Description
"Determined to break the wolfish curse that is threatening her charges and their unborn baby sibling, Miss Penelope Lumley takes a seaside holiday in the hope of gaining answers from an aging mariner"--WorldCat.
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Series
Audacity Jones volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
790L
Language
English
Description
In 1910, Audacity Jones is an eleven-year-old orphan living a monotonous life at Miss Maisie's School for Wayward Girls, and wondering why nothing exciting ever happens. But when the mysterious Commodore Crutchfield whisks her away to Washington D.C., she finds herself involved in a sinister and dangerous plot against the president of the United States.
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Series
Audacity Jones volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
740L
Language
English
Description
Audacity Jones and her best friend, Bimmy, are on their way to New York City, with Cypher, who is now a detective in the Pinkerton National Detective Agency, and their assignment involves Harry Houdini and the illusion he is planning--and it will take all of Audie's skills, and the help of her clever cat Min, to prevent the performance from being sabotaged.
Author
Series
Molly Moon volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
760L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Having acquired the skill of morphing, Molly Moon can inhabit any creature she wants but, unless she can find the ancient book of hypnotism in time, she risks never getting back into her own body.
Author
Series
Knight's Haddon volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
After summer break Anastastia and Edie are back at their boarding school, Knight's Haddon, but the friendship they forged last year is threatened by the arrival of a new girl, Janet, who befriends the orphaned Edie--but when Edie begins to think that Janet may not be exactly what she seems to be, events take a dangerous turn.
14) Forbidden
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
"In early 19th century England, Josie, 16, finds herself in a sinister place with mysterious, hostile people, including her own relatives. Persistence and determination drive her to uncover the town's horrifying secret--a conspiracy to wreck and plunder ships--despite obstacles natural and supernatural"--
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Series
Curiosity House volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
The extraordinary orphans Sam, Philippa, Thomas, and Max have just started to recover from their capture and subsequent escape from the evil Nicholas Rattigan. But the childrens' lives don't stay quiet for long. A slew of bank robberies is terrorizing the city. And when General Farnum, the ringmaster of the museum's now immensely popular flea circus, is charged with murder, the search for the real killer uncovers a plot much bigger than any individual...
19) The last bogler
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Series
City of orphans volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
810L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Ned Roach becomes a bogler's apprentice as Victorian London seeks to banish its bogle infestation once and for all in this conclusion to the trilogy featuring young assistants to Victorian London's best monster catcher, Alfred Bunce.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
850L
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1954, when mine closings bring an economic crisis to Way Down Deep, West Virginia, foundling Ruby Jolene Hurley makes a thirteenth-birthday wish to find the treasure rumored to have been buried by one of the town's founders.
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