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Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
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"When the infamous Akito makes an in-class appearance at the start of the school year, the Sohma family worries that his arrival will be an uncensored exercise of show-and-tell about Yuki's past. Meanwhile, when Ayame vows to rekindle his brother's lost friendship, he begins to realize that you can choose your friends but you can't choose your family--especially when they're acting like animals!"--p. [4] of cover.
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Language
English
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In this modern graphic novel retelling of Anne of Green Gables from graphic novelist Kathleen Gros, foster kid Anne Shirley finally lands in a loving home and befriends a girl who she may have more-than-friends feelings for.
Anne Shirley has been in foster care her whole life. So when the Cuthberts take her in, she hopes it's for good. They seem to be hitting it off, but how will they react to the trouble that Anne can sometimes find herself in ....
Author
Series
Three thieves volume 2
Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
GN 510L
Language
English
Description
While Dessa and her two companions find refuge in a stable, the owner of the inn is making a deal with the smugglers and the Captain Drake and the royal guard ride in to the yard, causing chases, captures, mishaps, and narrow escapes.
Author
Series
Dam keeper volume 2
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
GN 530L
Language
English
Description
"Beyond the dam lies certain death--this is something every citizen of Sunrise Valley knows well. Yet, when a poisonous black tidal wave carries Pig, Fox, and Hippo over the dam and into the wastelands, they don't find death. Instead they find bustling cities, each with their own dams. Pig can't help but wonder, who is the mysterious dam keeper behind it all? But he doesn't have time to unravel this mystery. The wave of deadly black fog will return...
Author
Series
Dam keeper volume 01
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Life in Sunrise Valley is tranquil, but beyond its borders lies certain death. A dangerous black fog looms outside the village, but its inhabitants are kept safe by an ingenious machine known as the dam. Pig's father built the dam and taught him how to maintain it. And then this brilliant inventor did the unthinkable: he walked into the fog and was never seen again. Now Pig is the dam keeper. Except for his best friend, Fox, and the town bully, Hippo,...
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Series
Teen Titans (Garcia) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
GN 520L
Language
English
Description
When a tragic accident takes the life of seventeen-year-old Raven Roth's foster mom—and Raven's memory—she moves to New Orleans to live with her foster mother's family and finish her senior year of high school.
Starting over isn't easy. Raven remembers how to solve math equations and make pasta, but she can't remember her favorite song or who she was before the accident. When strange things start happening—impossible things—Raven
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Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Twin siblings Elliot and Liza only have each other. Their parents are gone. Their home was taken, and to survive on their own, they're forced to scrounge up plastic and metal to trade for coin within an abandoned garbage heap. Desperate to escape the vagabond cycle that they're trapped in, the answer to their plight seemingly appears when they stumble upon a Raven Quest--magical tasks offered by mysterious message-carrying ravens that when successfully...
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Series
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"A horrific family tragedy sets sixteen-year-old Jacob on a journey to a remote island off the coast of Wales, where he discovers the crumbling ruins of Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children. As Jacob explores its abandoned bedrooms and hallways, it becomes clear that the children were more than just peculiar. They may have been dangerous. They may have been quarantined on a deserted island for good reason. And somehow-- impossible though it...
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Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
"Mary Lennox is a loner living in Silicon Valley. With her parents always working, video game and tech become her main source of entertainment and 'friends.' When her parents pass away in a tragic accident, she moves to New York City to live with her uncle who she barely knows, and to her surprise, keeps a gadget free home. Looking for comfort in this strange, new reality, Mary discovers an abandoned rooftop garden and an even bigger secret...her...
10) Queen of the sea
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
GN 710L
Language
English
Description
When her sister seizes the throne, Queen Eleanor of Albion is banished to a tiny island off the coast of her kingdom, where the nuns of the convent spend their days peacefully praying, sewing, and gardening. But the island is also home to Margaret, a mysterious young orphan girl whose life is upturned when the cold, regal stranger arrives. As Margaret grows closer to Eleanor, she grapples with the revelation of the island's sinister true purpose as...
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.2 - AR Pts: 35
Lexile measure
710L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"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...
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Series
Iyanu volume 02
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Formats
Description
Soon to be a Cartoon Network/Max/Lion Forge Animation animated series!
The orphan Iyanu is thrust into the wildlands beyond the safety of the walls of her home!
She must quickly learn to work with an exile and the people of the Riverlands Settlement if she hopes to save her mentor. Meanwhile, Chancellor Nuro finalizes a diabolical plan that threatens to destroy the entirety of Yorubaland in his greedy hunt to capture Iyanu,...
The orphan Iyanu is thrust into the wildlands beyond the safety of the walls of her home!
She must quickly learn to work with an exile and the people of the Riverlands Settlement if she hopes to save her mentor. Meanwhile, Chancellor Nuro finalizes a diabolical plan that threatens to destroy the entirety of Yorubaland in his greedy hunt to capture Iyanu,...
13) Surprise Island
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A summertime stay at their grandfather's island home is filled with adventure and new delights for a family of youngsters.
14) Blue Bay mystery
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
While on a trip on a huge cargo ship to a deserted South Seas island, orphans Henry, Jessie, Violet, and Benny Alden discover the island is not deserted at all.
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Series
Language
English
Description
With nowhere left to live after losing his parents and working his way through a long list of relatives on the mainland, Ollie finds himself at his grandpa's house in Sueño Bay, "home of the supernatural." Miserable and intending to get away from the earthquake-prone, rain-soaked island on the next bus out of town, Ollie's getaway plans are altered abruptly when he and three classmates discover something they shouldn't have in a trailer in the woods....
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Series
The adventures of Loupio volume 5
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
In the exciting days of chivalrous knights and wandering troubadours, a young orphaned poet and musician named Loupio travels throughout Italy experiencing many daring adventures. Befriended by Francis of Assisi and accompanied by the wolf tamed by this saintly guide, Loupio's often dangerous encounters help him and young readers learn lessons of faith, hope, and charity.
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Series
The adventures of Loupio volume 4
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Loupio is a young orphan, musician, and poet who lives in Italy in the thirteenth century. His two best friends ae Francis of Assisi and Brother Wolf. Ever roaming the roads of Italy he experiences thousands of encounters and adventures.
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