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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 11
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"A Platt & Munk cricket book"An imaginative, wealthy, good little girl retains her royal composure even when banished to the attic as a charity pupil after her English boarding school mistress hears that her father has died in poverty.
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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
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"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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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.
8) Maniac Magee
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
820L
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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...
9) The BFG
Author
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...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
770L
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"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...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 13
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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,...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 17
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Anne Shirley is an eleven-year-old orphan who has hung on determinedly to an optimistic spirit and a wildly creative imagination through her early deprivations. She erupts into the lives of aging brother and sister Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert, a girl instead of the boy they had sent for. Thus begins a story of transformation for all three; indeed the whole rural community of Avonlea comes under Anne's influence in some way. We see her grow from a...
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Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 15
Description
When a child goes missing from the Orphan House in the town of Stone-in-the-Glen, the mayor suggests the kindly Ogress is responsible, but the orphans do not believe that and try to make their deluded neighbors see the real villain among them.
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Series
Crispin volume 1
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Description
Falsely accused of theft and murder, an orphaned peasant boy in fourteenth-century England flees his village and meets a larger-than-life juggler who holds a dangerous secret.
15) The unseen guest
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 11
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"Miss Penelope Lumley embarks on an investigation into the mysteries surrounding the Incorrigible children, Lord Ashton, the forests of Ashton Place, and her own past"--Provided by publisher.
16) Counting by 7s
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 10
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Twelve-year-old genius and outsider Willow Chance must figure out how to connect with other people and find a surrogate family for herself after her parents are killed in a car accident.
17) Circus Mirandus
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Circus Mirandus volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 9
Description
""When he realizes that his grandfather's stories of an enchanted circus are true, Micah Tuttle sets out to find the mysterious Circus Mirandus--and to use its magic to save his grandfather's life""--
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 10
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In a witch's house, nothing is as it seems. When a scarecrow climbs over the garden wall, delivering twelve-year-old orphan Zita Brydgeborn a letter saying she has inherited a distant castle, she jumps at the chance of adventure. But little does she know that she is about to be thrust into a centuries-old battle between good and evil. Blackbird Castle was once home to a powerful dynasty of witches, all of them now dead under mysterious circumstances....
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Magic misfits volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 6
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"Six young magicians and illusionists team up to save their small town from a crooked carnival owner and his goons"--
20) Northwind
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Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 6
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When sickness decimates his fishing village, an orphan named Leif flees north in a cedar canoe, journeying along a brutal but beautiful coastline.