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Author
Series
Boxcar children volume 10
Pub. Date
[1965]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 3
Description
Grandpa Alden and the Alden children encounter danger, excitement, adventure, and mystery in a quiet island fishing village.
Author
Series
Boxcar children volume 2
Pub. Date
[1977]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 3
Description
The children are spending the summer on their own private island but there is a mysterious stranger on the island.
143) Orphan eleven
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 8
Description
In 1939, after cruel treatment at her orphanage renders her mute, Lucy runs away and joins the circus, working with the elephants and unaware that the orphanage matrons are hunting for her.
Author
Series
Boxcar children volume 11
Pub. Date
[1966]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 2
Description
The Alden children have an adventure as they journey along with the Little North Railroad in two cabooses rented for the summer by their grandfather.
Author
Series
Boxcar children volume 5
Pub. Date
[1988]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 2
Description
The entire town of Yellow Sands is left puzzled by a mysterious fire.
148) The runaways
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Description
Perhaps adolescent boys have had better reasons to run away from home than young Sammy Moore, but Sammy might never have done anything about it had he not encountered the tramp named Lefty and his bull terrier. The appeal that life on the road with these two offers is one of continuous adventure, so Sammy heads west. Swept along a trail of unfortunate events, Sammy finds himself as front man for a giant hunchback named Jake and his thugs in engineering...
Author
Pub. Date
c2007
Description
From the mixed-up files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler: Having run away with her younger brother to live in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, twelve-year-old Claudia strives to keep things in order in their new home and to become a changed person and a heroine to herself.
Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth, William McKinley, and me, Elizabeth: Two fifth-grade girls, one of whom is the first black child in a middle-income suburb, play at being apprentice witches.
The...
150) Moonrise kingdom
Description
Set on an island off the coast of New England in the summer of 1965, tells the story of two twelve-year-olds who fall in love, make a secret pact, and run away together into the wilderness. As various authorities try to hunt them down, a violent storm is brewing off-shore, and the peaceful island community is turned upside down in more ways than anyone can handle.
Author
Pub. Date
[2001]
Description
"All modern American literature comes from one book called Huckleberry Finn," declared Ernest Hemingway. "There was nothing before. There has been nothing as good since." Yet even from the time of its first publication in 1885, Mark Twain's masterpiece has been one of the most celebrated and controversial books ever published in America. No other story so central to our American identity has been so loved and so reviled as Huck Finn's autobiography.
Michael...
152) Freeway
Pub. Date
2000.
Description
A trip through a weird world of fast food, faster kicks and one darkly funny adventure after another.
153) Legend: Vol. 6
Author
Pub. Date
2009.
Description
"As No-Ah battles on with Toh, Eun-Gyo's past life resurfaces, and she emerges from the pagodas as Joo-Ji, the central blade and be reborn as a human, Joo-Ji (in Eun-Gyo's body) is eager to reunite with her lover once again. But though he loved her in a past life, No-Ah is hesitant. If he accepts Joo-Ji, will he lose Eun-Gyo forever?"--P. [4] of cover.
154) Barbarosa
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
As gnarly ex-Texas ranger who turned into an bandit, lives by his own wits and prowess with a gun.
155) Princess of the Row
Description
A runaway foster child will stop at nothing to live with her homeless, mentally-ill veteran father who lives on the streets of LA's skid row.
157) Beholding Bee
Author
Pub. Date
p2013
Description
In 1942, when life turns sour at the carnival that has always been her home, eleven-year-old Bee takes her dog, Peabody, and piglet, Cordelia, and sets out to find a real home, aided by two women only Bee and her pets can see.
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Appears on list
Description
1932, Minnesota. The Lincoln School is a pitiless place where hundreds of Native American children, forcibly separated from their parents, are sent to be educated. It is also home to an orphan named Odie O'Banion, a lively boy whose exploits earn him the superintendent's wrath. Forced to flee, he and his brother Albert, their best friend Mose, and a little girl named Emmy steal away in a canoe, heading for the mighty Mississippi and a place to call...
159) Fix me
Author
Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Struggling with painful memories of her parents' fatal car accident and abuse at the hands of her violent twin brother, orphan Leia hides in the elephant habitat at the zoo.
160) Legend: Vol. 3
Author
Pub. Date
2008.
Description
Eun-Gyo agrees to help No-Ah search for the Seven Blade Sword, but they get caught in the middle of a power struggle at the village temple and No-Ah gets locked in prison.
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