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Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 4
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When twelve-year-old Hugo, an orphan living and repairing clocks within the walls of a Paris train station in 1931, meets a mysterious toyseller and his goddaughter, his undercover life and his biggest secret are jeopardized.
102) Eleventh grade burns
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Series
Chronicles of Vladimir Tod volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 11
Description
Another year at Bathory High goes bad for Vlad Tod when his former friend Joss, now a vampire slayer, returns to town, a mysterious and powerful new vampire, Dorian, arrives with a thirst for Vlad's blood, and archenemy D'Ablo brings Vlad's Uncle Otis to trial.
103) Locomotion
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 2
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In a series of poems, eleven-year-old Lonnie writes about his life, after the death of his parents, separated from his younger sister, living in a foster home, and finding his poetic voice at school.
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Shadow House volume 1
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 6
Description
Poppy Caldwell is an orphan who keeps seeing a figure standing behind her in the mirror at the group home where she lives, but she does not associate this ghost with the letter that mysteriously appears in her file, claiming to be from a long-lost aunt, and inviting her to Larkspur House--and she is just one of five children who find themselves gathered in this strange house with a deadly past, and apparently no intention of letting the children escape.
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105) Tenth grade bleeds
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Series
Chronicles of Vladimir Tod volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 10
Description
As the evil vampire D'Ablo seeks the ritual that would steal half-vampire Vlad's powers, Vlad struggles to resist feeding on the people around him, has a conflict with his best friend Henry, and gives up all hope of a normal year at Bathory High Vladimir Tod just wants to be a normal teen. Unfortunately that is impossible for a vampire who is the only one "living" in the small town of Bathory. Now starting 10th grade, he faces some typical teen problems....
106) Pippi Longstocking
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 4
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Pippi moves into in a house at the edge of a Swedish village with a horse, a monkey, a suitcase full of gold, and no grown-ups to tell her what to do. She has upside-down braids and is wild and funny and her crazy ideas have a way of making anything exciting! Naturally, the children next door, Tommy and Annika are curious about their new neighbor. The three children have the most rollicking adventures on their own, with horses and monkeys, the circus,...
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Young Copperfield's life is happy at first, but he is forced to run away from his home following the arrival of his stepfather. David is then adopted by his aunt, Betsey Trotwood, sent to school at Canterbury and meets the unctuous Uriah Heep, whose activities lead eventually to David's self-discovery.
Pub. Date
2016
Description
An epic adventure about Mowgli, a man-cub who's been raised by a family of wolves. But Mowgli finds he is no longer welcome in the jungle when fearsome tiger Shere Khan, who bears the scars of Man, promises to eliminate what he sees as a threat. Urged to abandon the only home he's ever known, Mowgli embarks on a captivating journey of self-discovery, guided by panther-turned-stern mentor Bagheera, and the free-spirited bear Baloo.
"...'The Jungle...
109) Tree House mystery
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 2
Description
The Alden children are helping their new neighbors build a tree house when they discover an attic window that not even their neighbors knew about.
110) Hollow city
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Miss Peregrine volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 15
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Jacob Portman and his newfound friends travel to war-torn 1940 London where they use their unusual talents to find a cure for Miss Peregrine, the beloved headmistress of their orphanage who has been trapped in the body of a bird.
111) The Wide Window
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 5
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Even more terrible happenings concerning the Baudelaire orphans. Dear Customer, If you have not heard anything about the Baudelaire orphans, then before you listen to even one sentence you should know this: Violet, Klaus and Sunny are kindhearted and quick-witted, but their lives, I'm sorry to say, are filled with bad luck and misery. All of the stories about these three children are unhappy and wretched, and this one may be the worst of them all....
112) The white giraffe
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Legend of the animal healer volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 7
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After a fire kills her parents, eleven-year-old Martine must leave England to live with her grandmother on a wildlife game reserve in South Africa, where she befriends a mythical white giraffe.
113) A man of honor
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"The prequel to Barbara Taylor Bradford's New York Times bestselling and dazzling saga A Woman of Substance. Opening five years before the start of A Woman of Substance, A Man of Honor begins with 13-year-old Blackie O'Neill facing an uncertain future in rural County Kerry. Orphaned and alone, he has just buried his sister, Bronagh, and must leave his home to set sail for England, in search of a better life with his mother's brother in Leeds. There,...
114) Goose chase
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Pub. Date
[2001]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 8
Description
Rather than marry a cruel king or a seemingly dim-witted prince, an enchanted goose girl endures imprisonment, capture by several ogresses, and other dangers, before learning exactly who she is.
115) Great expectations
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.2 - AR Pts: 35
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Great Expectations is Charles Dickens's thirteenth novel. It is his second novel, after David Copperfield, to be fully narrated in the first person. Great Expectations is a bildungsroman, or a coming-of-age novel, and it is a classic work of Victorian literature. It depicts the growth and personal development of an orphan named Pip. The novel was first published in serial form in Dickens's weekly periodical All the Year Round, from 1 December 1860...
116) Eighth Grade Bites
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Series
Chronicles of Vladimir Tod volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 7
Description
For thirteen years, Vlad, aided by his aunt and best friend, has kept secret that he is half-vampire, but when his missing teacher is replaced by a sinister substitute, he learns that there is more to being a vampire, and to his parents' deaths, than he could have guessed.
117) Caboose mystery
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Series
Boxcar children volume 11
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 2
Description
The adventures of the Alden family as they ride across country in a caboose that has a strange history--or is it a mystery?
118) Houseboat mystery
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Series
Boxcar children volume 12
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 3
Description
The Alden family rents a houseboat to drift down the river, and encounters a mystery in the little towns along the river, involving a fast black car.
119) The pizza mystery
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Series
Pub. Date
c1993
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 3
Description
When their favorite pizza restaurant almost goes out of business, the Alden children try to help their friends stay open while they find out who is behind all their problems.
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 13
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In this, the fifth of the Anne of Green Gables novels, Anne's true love, Gilbert Blythe, is finally a doctor. In the sunshine of the old orchard, among their dearest friends, they are about to speak their vows. Soon the happy couple will be bound for a new life together and their own dream house, on the misty purple shores of Four Winds Harbour.