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Edge chronicles volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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Rook Barkwater, one of the apprentices chosen to make a dangerous journey to study in the Deepwoods, joins the sky pirate Captain Twig in opposing the Guardians of the Night and learns more about his own past.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 6
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English
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"In the little town of Blackbird Tree live two orphan girls: one Naomi Deane, brimming with curiosity, and her best friend, Lizzie Scatterding, who could talk the ears off a cornfield. Naomi has a knack for being around when trouble happens. For she knows all the peculiar people in town--like Crazy Cora and Witch Wiggins and Mr. Farley. But then, one day, a boy drops out of a tree. The strangely charming Finn boy. Then the Dingle Dangle man appears,...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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Thirteen-year-old Nikki Demere is an orphan and a kleptomaniac, making her the perfect girl to portray the Trevors' daughter in witness protection, but she soon learns that the biggest threat to her new family's security comes from her own past.
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English
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An orphaned giant named Berg is in search of just one person he can call friend. When he was very young, Berg's mother hid him in a cave and led an angry mob of villagers away, sacrificing her own life to protect her son. In all the years since, Berg has lived alone, the only reminders of his family are his mother's satchel and his recurring dreams of a white bear who shares a magical sand from a fallen star. When the white bear touches Berg with...
9) Train I ride
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 5
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English
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Traveling from California to Chicago after her mother dies of a drug overdose and her grandmother of lung cancer, thirteen-year-old Rydr meets other passengers on the train and attempts to accept her own situation.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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In futuristic Satellite City, fourteen-year-old Cosmo Hill escapes from his abusive orphanage and teams up with three other people who share his unusual ability to see supernatural creatures, and together they determine the nature and purpose of the swarming blue Parasites that are invisible to most humans.
11) Northwind
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 6
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English
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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.
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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Simon, the foundling from the earlier book, The wolves of Willoughy Chase, arrives in London to meet an old friend and pursue the study of painting, but he finds himself in the middle of a wicked crew's plan to overthrow good King James and the Duke and Duchess of Battersea.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
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English
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When ghoulish creatures kill twelve-year-old Asha's guardian, her dying words launch Asha on a quest to stop an ancient evil, and along the way, she uncovers shocking secrets about the family she never knew and begins to find her place in the world as she discovers her own untapped powers.
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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Four orphans are shocked when their beloved friend, sculptor Siegfried Eckleberger, is murdered. As they investigate, they find clues that his death may be tied to the murder of a rich New York heiress as well as to their own past.
18) The ghost prison
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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"Fifteen-year-old Billy guards a castle prison. But it isn't just criminals he'll be guarding--the ghosts of executed prisoners haunt the place"--
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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When she is rescued from a rainy, boggy town where she works in a dismal factory, ten-year-old orphan Isabelle learns that she is the last surviving member of a family that tends the world's only remaining magic-producing farm.
20) The humming room
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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Twelve-year-old orphan Roo Fanshaw is sent to live with an uncle she never knew in a largely uninhabited mansion on Cough Rock Island and discovers a wild river boy, an invalid cousin, and the mysteries of a hidden garden.
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