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Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c2009
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.
Author
Publisher
Zondervan
Pub. Date
c2007
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
Publisher
Kathy Dawson Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
"Recently orphaned Jane accepts an unexpected invitation from an old acquaintance to an island mansion where she will face five choices that could ultimately determine the course of her newly untethered life"--
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
©2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
"Penobscot Indian Molly Ayer is close to 'aging out' out of the foster care system. A community service position helping an elderly woman clean out her home is the only thing keeping Molly out of juvie and worse ... As she helps Vivian sort through her possessions and memories, Molly learns that she and Vivian aren't as different as they seem to be. A young Irish immigrant orphaned in New York City, Vivian was put on a train to the Midwest with hundreds...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
When Dr. Warthrop goes hunting for the "Holy Grail of Monstrumology" in 1888, twelve-year-old orphan Will Henry follows him to Socotra, plunging into depths of horror worse than anything he has experienced so far.
Author
Series
White rabbit chronicles volume 3
Publisher
Harlequin Teen
Pub. Date
[2014].
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....
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.
8) Hooper
Author
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2019.
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
Publisher
Levine/Scholastic
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Pancho is bent on avenging the senseless death of his sister, but after he meets D.Q, who is dying of cancer, and Marisol, one of D.Q.'s caregivers, both boys find their lives changed by their interactions.
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.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Here is a thing everyone wants: a miracle. Here is a thing everone fears: what it takes to get one. Any visitor to Bicho Raro, Colorado, is likely to find a landscape of dark saints, forbidden love, scientific dreams, miracle-mad owls, estranged affections, one or two orphans, and a sky full of watchful desert stars. At the heart of this place you will find the Soria family, who all have the ability to perform unusual miracles. And at the heart...
12) Jane Eyre
Author
Publisher
Barnes & Noble
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 33
Language
English
Description
"Orphaned Jane Eyre endures an unhappy childhood, hated by her aunt and cousins and then sent to comfortless Lowood School. But life there improves and Jane stays on as a teacher, though she still longs for love and friendship. At Mr. Rochester's house, where she goes to work as a governess, she hopes she might have found them"--Publisher.
13) Practical magic
Author
Series
Publisher
Putnam
Pub. Date
1995
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Orphaned at an early age, Gillian and Sally Owen are raised by an aunt who deals in sorcery. The girls long for the normal life and leave home as soon as they can. Years later tragedy strikes and it is then they realize that magic is their gift, not their affliction. By the author of Illumination Night.
14) The dealer
Author
Series
CHERUB volume 2
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
James embarks on a dangerous mission for the CHERUB agency, taking down the world's most powerful drug lord, putting his own safety aside in the hopes of ridding the streets of dangerous drugs.
Author
Publisher
Pantheon/Anchor
Pub. Date
2004, c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
THE NO. 1 LADIES DETECTIVE AGENCY.FOR ALL CONFIDENTIAL MATTERS AND ENQUIRIES. SATISFACTION GUARANTEED FOR ALL PARTIES.UNDER PERSONAL MANAGEMENT.Mma Ramotswe and Mr. J.L.B. Matekoni are still engaged, but with no immediate plans to get married. Mma Ramotswe wonders when a wedding date will be named, but she is anxious to avoid putting pressure on her fiancé. For indeed he has other things on his mind -- particularly a frightening request (involving...