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Author
Series
Westcott novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Arriving in London to claim an unexpected inheritance from the late Earl of Riverdale, Anna Snow finds an ally in the new earl's guardian, the Duke of Netherby.
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
Irish orphans Molly, fourteen, and Kip, ten, travel to England to work as servants in a crumbling manor house where nothing is quite what it seems to be, and soon the siblings are confronted by a mysterious stranger and secrets of the cursed house.
5) Quicksilver
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Formats
Description
When the discovery of a coin worth a lot of money forces him to run for his life, Quinn Quicksilver meets his destined companions as he barrels towards a confrontation with an enemy who is as every bit as scary as the power within himself.
Author
Series
The 39 clues. Main series volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
A mysterious telegram sends Amy and Dan Cahill off to Russia, where they search for a treasure stolen by the Nazis, the truth about the end of the Romanov dynasty, and information about the death of their parents.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Destiny leads 11-year-old Cady to a peanut butter factory, a family of children searching for their own Talents, and a Talent Thief who will alter her life forever"--Provided by publisher. Includes cake recipes.
Author
Series
Boxcar children volume 111
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
When the Alden children accompany their grandfather on a trip to Seattle, they discover clues throughout the city, seemingly planted just for them.
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
1930's Kansas. Neva Shilling's husband travels to neighboring communities and sells items from his wagon. In his absence she runs the Shilling Mercantile, working to keep their business strong as the Depression takes its toll, and caring for their twins. Then a deputy delivers three young children-- Warren and his wife have died, and their last request that the three children go live with "Aunt Neva." Neva's heart is shattered; she wants nothing more...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
When hospice nurse, Rachel, realizes that her new patient is the doctor that spent years subjecting her to tortuous medical experiments at a Jewish orphanage, she is forced to confront her memories of the time and their lasting effect.
12) Sever
Author
Series
Chemical Garden trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
After modern science turns every human into a genetic time bomb with men dying at age twenty-five and women dying at age twenty, teenaged Rhine finds hope for a brighter future from a surprising source.
13) The crossing
Author
Publisher
Park Row Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Relying on each other since early childhood to survive a merciless foster-care system, twins Virginia and Tommy are horrified when a deadly pandemic wipes out entire populations and a world war erupts over the cure, and embark on a dangerous life on the run.
14) Zorrie: a novel
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
Cast adrift in the Depression-era West after the last of her relatives pass away, Zorrie survives by working at a radium processing plant before finding love, community and unexpected loss upon returning to her small Indiana hometown.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
When twelve-year-old Hugo, an orphan living and repairing clocks within the walls of a Paris train station in 1931, meets a mysterious toyseller and his goddaughter, his undercover life and his biggest secret are jeopardized.
16) Paint the wind
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
After her overprotective grandmother has a stroke, Maya, an orphan, leaves her extremely restricted life in California to stay with her mother's family on a remote Wyoming ranch, where she discovers a love of horses and encounters a wild mare that her mother once rode.
17) City of illusion
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
After saving their beloved mechanized city of Oskars, Hannah and Ever team up with new friends to try to save both Oskars and the nearby city of Alexios from the evil assassin Vash.
Author
Series
Odditorium volume 1
Publisher
Disney-Hyperion
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
In Victorian England Grubb, an orphan about twelve years old, escapes his life of drudgery as a chimney sweep's apprentice and finds himself in a very strange house filled with magical objects and creatures, but soon he learns that there are dark forces seeking his new master.
Author
Series
The Parisian Oprhan volume 1
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
In 1940, Evelyne Redfern, a secretary for Prime Minister Winston Churchill in the cabinet war rooms, uses all of her amateur sleuthing expertise garnered from years of reading mysteries to solve a murder, teaming up with a cagey minister’s aide to expose a traitor in their midst.
20) Storm horse
Author
Publisher
Chicken House, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
His mother left three years ago, so when twelve-year-old Flip's thieving father dies he goes to live with his stern and hostile uncle on the remote Dutch island of Mossum; there he works on the farm, dreams of his mother coming to get him, deals with the local bullies, and his only "friend' is a strange, mute girl whom he thinks of as the ghost girl--until he rescues a horse from the stormy sea and discovers a new purpose in caring for his charge....
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