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1) The BFG
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Kid-snatched from her orphanage by a BFG (Big Friendly Giant), who spends his life blowing happy dreams to children, Sophie concocts with him a plan to save the world from nine other man-gobbling cannybull giants.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
When ten-year-old orphan Peter Augustus Duchene encounters a fortune teller in the marketplace one day and she tells him that his sister, who is presumed dead, is in fact alive, he embarks on a remarkable series of adventures as he desperately tries to find her.
Author
Series
Boxcar children volume 5
Publisher
Albert Whitman
Pub. Date
©1988
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this story inspired by Jules Verne's "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea," Ana Dakkar, a freshman at Harding-Pencroft Academy, a five-year high school that graduates the best marine scientists, naval warriors, navigators, and underwater explorers in the world, makes astounding discoveries about her heritage and puts her leadership skills to the test against deadly enemies from a rival school.
Author
Publisher
Simon and Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
When fifteen-year-old Iranian American Marjan discovers her murdered father was secretly a veterinarian to magical creatures, she realizes she must take up his mantle, despite the many dangers.
Author
Publisher
Orca Book Publishers
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Evie's family runs a Jewish funeral home and she enjoys helping out. She doesn't normally interact with the grieving family, but one day she befriends Oren, a boy overwhelmed by grief after an awful accident. Oren hasn't spoken a word since, but Evie is set on helping him deal with his loss and discover his voice again.
10) The secret war
Author
Series
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Jack may be the Imagine Nation's only hope of fending off a new Rustov attack, with the help of his fellow superheroes-in-training, but the virus he carries, and Jonas's suspicions, provide new complications.
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2007.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When an Ogre comes to town demanding a bride, the mayor sacrifices the homeless girl with no name that everyone thinks is a pest and a bother, but she finds a way to outwit them all.
Author
Series
Wishes and Wellingtons volume 2
Publisher
Sourcebooks Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Maeve, Tommy, and their best friend Alice embark on an adventure filled with magic, danger and flying carpetbags to rescue Tommy's father and the djinni Mermeros before Mesmeros's fabled wishes fall into the wrong hands.
13) The Willoughbys
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2008.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
In this tongue-in-cheek take on classic themes in children's literature, the four Willoughby children set about 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.
14) The Medusa plot
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Unable to return to their normal lives despite the end of the Clue hunt, new Madrigal leaders Amy and Dan anxiously prepare for a retaliatory strike by the Vespers, who kidnap a number of Cahill family members and demand that Amy and Dan steal a famous painting.
Author
Series
Grisha trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Henry Holt
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Orphaned by the Border Wars, Alina Starkov is taken from obscurity and her only friend, Mal, to become the protegÃ♭ of the mysterious Darkling, who trains her to join the magical elite in the belief that she is the Sun Summoner, who can destroy the monsters of the Fold.
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Best friends Aldo, Pen, and Jasper stumble onto an abandoned orphanage and discover that freeing a houseful of imprisoned ghosts from an angry poltergeist could get them into serious trouble.
Author
Series
Boxcar children volume 159
Publisher
Albert Whitman & Company
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
The Aldens are excited to learn about beekeeping. But when equipment goes missing, they have more than honey to harvest -- they have a mystery to solve!
Author
Series
American girl BeForever. Samantha, 1904 volume 1
A Samantha classic volume 1
American girl BeForever. Samantha 1904 volume 1
A Samantha classic volume 1
American girl BeForever. Samantha 1904 volume 1
Publisher
American Girl
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Living with her rich grandmother, Samantha has the best of everything. But when she becomes friends with Nellie, she learns that life isn't so easy for everyone. Samantha is determined to help her new friend, but Nellie ends up helping her, too! Then Samantha tries to help decorate for Christmas, but is disappointed when her plans are being changed. Discover what happens to help make this Christmas even better than Samantha planned.