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Author
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 26
Language
English
Formats
Description
Pak Jun Do is the haunted son of a lost mother-a singer "stolen" to Pyongyang-and an influential father who runs a work camp for orphans. Superiors in the state soon recognize the boys loyalty and keen instincts. Considering himself "a humble citizen of the greatest nation in the world," Jun Do rises in the ranks. He becomes a professional kidnapper who must navigate the shifting rules, arbitrary violence, and baffling demands of his Korean overlords...
Author
Publisher
Zondervan
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
God brings hope and healing into the lives of young quarterback Aaron Hill; his teammate Derrick Anderson, a family man looking to keep a promise he made years earlier; Cory, an orphan in the foster care system who is convinced that Hill is his father; and Megan Gunn, the woman who wants to adopt Cory.
Author
Series
Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
After a family tragedy, Jacob feels compelled to explore an abandoned orphanage on an island off the coast of Wales, discovering disturbing facts about the children who were kept there.
Author
Series
Folk of the Air volume 1
Pub. Date
2018
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
"Jude, seventeen and mortal, gets tangled in palace intrigues while trying to win a place in the treacherous High Court of Faerie, where she and her sisters have lived for a decade." --
"Jude was seven years old when her parents were murdered and she and her two sisters were stolen away to live in the treacherous High Court of Faerie. Ten years later, Jude wants to belong there, despite her mortality. But many of the fey despise humans. Especially...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
Young, bright Taylor Greer leaves her poverty-stricken life in Kentucky and heads west, picking up an abandoned Native American baby girl whom she names Turtle and finds a new home in Tucson with Mattie, an old woman who takes in Central American refugees
Author
Series
Publisher
Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
With over ten million books sold, Janet Oke's charming stories of triumphant women of the West have touched the hearts and minds of readers everywhere. When young Kendra, an orphan living with her Indian grandmother and trapper grandfather in the wilds, is sent away for schooling, she must make some very difficult choices about her future.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Through twists and turns of fate, orphaned Mary seeks knowledge of life, love, and especially what lies beyond her walled village and the surrounding forest, where dwell the Unconsecrated, aggressive flesh-eating people who were once dead.
10) Oliver Twist
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 11.3 - AR Pts: 33
Language
English
Formats
Description
Olvier Twist is a poor orphan boy cruelly treated in the public workhouse. Pennyless and hungry, he runs away to London, only to fall into the clutches of a gang of thieves and pickpockets led by the master crimminal, fagin. Befriended by a man robbed by the gang, Oliver ultimately learns his true identity and gains a home, a fortune, and a family!
11) Meet the Austins
Author
Series
Publisher
Macmillan Audio
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
The warm, happy life of the Austin family is disturbed by a spoiled, sullen girl who has been orphaned by the sudden death of her father.
12) Defy the stars
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2017
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Formats
Description
Teenaged soldier Noemi and an enemy robot, Abel, who is programmed to obey her commands, set out on an interstellar quest to save her home planet, Earth colony Genesis.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Formats
Description
Nineteen-year-old returning champion Sean Kendrick competes against Puck Connolly, the first girl ever to ride in the annual Scorpio Races, both trying to keep hold of their dangerous water horses long enough to make it to the finish line.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
In 1888, twelve-year-old Will Henry chronicles his apprenticeship with Dr. Warthrop, a New England scientist who hunts and studies real-life monsters, as they discover and attempt to destroy the Wendigo, a creature that starves even as it gorges itself on human flesh.
15) Hooper
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
For Adam Reed, basketball is a passport. Adam's basketball skills have taken him from an orphanage in Poland to a loving adoptive mother in Minnesota. When he's tapped to play on a select AAU team along with some of the best players in the state, it just confirms that basketball is his ticket to the good life: to new friendships, to the girl of his dreams, to a better future.
Author
Series
White rabbit chronicles volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
"Alice 'Ali' Bell thinks the worst is behind her. She's ready to take the next step with boyfriend Cole Holland, the leader of the zombie slayers. But Anima Industries, the agency controlling the zombies, launches a sneak attack, killing four of her friends. It's then she realizes that humans can be more dangerous than monsters... and the worst has only begun. As the surviving slayers prepare for war, Ali discovers she, too, can control the zombies....
18) Genuine fraud
Author
Pub. Date
2017
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
The story of a young woman whose diabolical smarts are her ticket into a charmed life. But how many times can someone reinvent themselves? You be the judge. Imogen is a runaway heiress, an orphan, a cook, and a cheat. Jule is a fighter, a social chameleon, and an athlete. An intense friendship. A disappearance. A murder, or maybe two. A bad romance, or maybe three. Blunt objects, disguises, blood, and chocolate. The American dream, superheroes, spies,...
19) Tiger's voyage
Author
Series
Publisher
Splinter
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 25
Language
English
Description
After battling the villanous Lokesh, Kelsey and the Indian princes Ren and Kishan return to India, where Kelsey learns that Ren has amnesia, and five cunning dragons try to keep the trio from breaking the curse that binds them.
Author
Series
White rabbit chronicles volume 4
Publisher
Harlequin Teen
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Kat Parker's spirit returns, insisting Frosty the Ice Man partner with rogue slayer Camilla Marks -- the one who betrayed them all, leading to Kat's death. But when Anima rises from the grave to become a force the slayers may not have the strength to overcome, Frosty, Camilla and all the slayers will have to work together to survive.