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21) Storm warning
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
When Amy and Dan learn the truth about the Madrigals and Grace Cahill's alternate will, these discoveries lead to the revelation of a secret about their family and a showdown with the man in black who has been following them.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
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
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Co (Juv)
Pub. Date
1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
80p with photos
Language
English
Description
Discusses the placement of over 200,000 orphaned or abandoned children in homes throughout the Midwest from 1854 to 1929 by recounting the story of one boy and his brothers.
26) Jane Eyre
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
An abridged version of the story of an orphaned young English woman who accepts employment as a governess at Thornfield Hall, a country estate owned by the mysteriously remote Mr. Rochester.
27) Eidi
Author
Series
The children of Crow Cove volume 2
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 4
Physical Desc
p. cm.
Language
English
Description
Eidi leaves her mother and stepfather in Crow Cove to live in a nearby village, where she meets the much younger Tink and rescues him from the abusive man he has been living with.
28) In too deep
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Amy and Dan Cahill travel to Australia to figure out what their own parents knew about the object of their quest, but their search brings back terrible memories for Amy and endangers a secret ally.
Author
Series
Hoofbeats volume 1
Publisher
Puffin Books
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 4
Physical Desc
135 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Orphaned at six and living at the Stevenses' farm, nine-year-old Katie Rose develops a bond with an unbroken mustang that Mr. Stevens brings home.
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 7
Physical Desc
220 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1949 Philadephia, Mary Mouse and an orphan named Caro embark on an adventure when they team up to expose criminals and make the Cherry Street Orphanage a safe haven for mice.
33) Tink
Author
Series
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 3
Physical Desc
p. cm.
Language
English
Description
Feeling as though he does not belong there, Tink leaves Crow Cove, only to return with the drunken Burd, who teaches Tink to fish and to have confidence in himself and his place in the community.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2002], c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 4
Physical Desc
154 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Douglas Deeds, a fifteen-year-old orphan, keeps a journal of his travels by wagon train as a member of the ill-fated Donner Party, which became stranded in the Sierra Nevada mountains in the winter of 1846-47.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2001
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
185 p. : ill., map ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
In her fictionalized journal, eleven-year-old Minnie Swift recounts how her family dealt with the difficult times during the Depression and how the arrival of an orphan from Texas changed their lives in Indianapolis just before Christmas 1932.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Soon after Peter, an orphan, sets sail from England on the ship Never Land, he befriends and assists Molly, a young Starcatcher, whose mission is to guard a trunk of magical stardust from a greedy pirate and the native inhabitants of a remote island.
Author
Series
The 39 clues volume 10
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Throughout the hunt for the 39 Clues, Amy and Dan Cahill have uncovered history's greatest mysteries and their family's deadliest secrets. But are they ready to face the truth about the Cahills and the key to their unmatched power? After a whirlwind race that's taken them across five continents, Amy and Dan face the most the difficult challenge yet -- a task no Cahill dared to imagine. When faced with a choice that could change the future of the world,...
38) One false note
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
A million dollars, or a clue? Police report a break-in at an elite hotel, and the suspects sound suspiciously like Amy and Dan. There's a car and speedboat chase and an angry mob! When there's a clue on the line, anything can happen.
40) Eight keys
Author
Publisher
Wendy Lamb Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
When twelve-year-old Elise, orphaned since age three, becomes disheartened by middle school, with its bullies, changing relationships, and higher expectations, keys to long-locked rooms and messages from her late father help her cope.