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Alex Rider adventures volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 8
Description
Alex, a fourteen-year-old spy, has been assigned by the British MI6 to investigate a series of mysterious deaths. He ends up in a boarding school in the Swiss Alps, and finds many strange things are happening to the students.
2) Delirium
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 18
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Description
Lena looks forward to receiving the government-mandated cure that prevents the delirium of love and leads to a safe, predictable, and happy life, until ninety-five days before her eighteenth birthday and her treatment, when she falls in love.
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Willoughbys volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 4
Description
A tongue-in-cheek take on classic themes in children's literature, in which the four Willoughby children set out 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.
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A series of unfortunate events volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 7
Description
The woeful saga of the Baudelaire orphans continues as evil Count Olaf discovers their whereabouts at Esm©♭ Squalor's seventy-one bedroom penthouse and concocts a new plan for stealing their family fortune.
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
540L
Description
"What will the Aldens discover on a vacation to a deserted island? Adapted from Gertrude Chandler Warner's story of the same name, this early reader allows children to start reading with a Boxcar Children classic."--
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Anne of Green Gables volume 8
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 16
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"Anne's daughter, fourteen year old Rilla, can think of little else but day dreaming of her first dance and hoping for her first kiss. However, everything changes at Ingleside when Rilla's brothers go off to fight in the 'Great War' and she comes across an orphaned child that requires care and a loving home."--Amazon.
10) Orphan Island
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 9
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.
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Series
Boxcar children volume 9
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Description
A family starts out on a one-day mountain climbing excursion that becomes very exciting. In fact, it becomes an adventure for the former "boxcar" family. They unearth some mysteries and have a fine time in the process.
12) Mystery ranch
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 2
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Description
The Boxcar Children, now living with their grandfather, spend the summer on their Aunt Jane's ranch. Their aunt seems quite unhappy until at the end of the summer a surprise discovery brings happiness to all.
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Sisters Grimm volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
Description
Orphans Sabrina and Daphne Grimm are sent to live with an eccentric grandmother that they have always believed to be dead.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 3
Description
"A sudden snowstorm traps the Aldens in a mountain cabin! The cabin is cozy, but the children hear strange noises at night and find a coded message carved into the closet door. Can the children crack the code and solve their snowbound mystery?"--
15) Maniac Magee
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
820L
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Description
From the Publisher: He wasn't born with the name Maniac Magee. He came into this world named Jeffrey Lionel Magee, but when his parents died and his life changed, so did his name. And Maniac Magee became a legend. Even today kids talk about how fast he could run; about how he hit an inside-the-park "frog" homer; how no knot, no matter how snarled, would stay that way once he began to untie it. But the thing Maniac Magee is best known for is what he...
16) The BFG
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 6
Description
Captured by a giant! The BFG is no ordinary bone-crunching giant. He is far too nice and jumbly. It's lucky for Sophie that he is. Had she been carried off in the middle of the night by the Bloodbottler, the Fleshlumpeater, the Bonecruncher, or any of the other giants -- rather than the BFG -- she would have soon become breakfast. When Sophie hears that they are flush-bunking off in England to swollomp a few nice little chiddlers, she decides she...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
770L
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Description
"Twelve-year-old Crow has lived her entire life on a tiny, isolated piece of the starkly beautiful Elizabeth Islands in Massachusetts. Abandoned and set adrift in a small boat when she was just hours old, Crow's only companions are Osh, the man who rescued and raised her, and Miss Maggie, their fierce and affectionate neighbor across the sandbar. Crow has always been curious about the world around her, but it isn't until the night a mysterious fire...
18) Ruby Holler
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Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 6
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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.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 12
Description
"Herc Beal knows who he's named after - a mythical hero - but he's no superhero. He's the smallest kid in his class. So when his homeroom teacher at his new middle school gives him the assignment of duplicating the mythical Hercules's amazing feats in real life, he's skeptical. After all, there are no Nemean Lions on Cape Cod, and not a single Hydra in sight. Missing his parents terribly and wishing his older brother wasn't working all the time, Herc...
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 13
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Description
When orphaned Mary Lennox comes to live at her uncle's great house on the Yorkshire moors, she finds it full of secrets. At night, she hears the sound of crying down one of the long corridors. Outside, she meets Dickon, a magical boy who can talk to animals. Then one day, Mary discovers the most mysterious wonder of all -- a secret garden, walled and locked, which has been forgotten for years and years. With the help of two unexpected companions,...