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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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Jerusha Judy Abbott's life is drastically changed one day, when a mysterious and rich benefactor scoops her up from an orphanage-the only home she has ever known and offers to pay her way through college. Her benefactor has many requests, the two most important being that she uses this opportunity to become a writer, and that she writes him monthly to update him on her studies. To maintain his air of mystery, he never responds, and requests that Judy...
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Series
Boxcar children volume 15
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
While on bicycle trip to their aunt's farm, the four Aldens help solve a mystery.
Author
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Boxcar children volume 3
Language
English
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Relates the exploits of the four Alden children as they locate a missing man. The Boxcar children are determined to solve the mystery that surrounds an old yellow house on their grandfather's property. Strange things have happened in that house where long ago a man disappeared.
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Boxcar children volume 14
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Six children help solve the mystery of a missing spyglass that has kept two brothers feuding for years.
6) Northwind
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 6
Language
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.
Author
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Boxcar children volume 12
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
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The Alden family rents a houseboat to drift down the river, and encounters a mystery in the little towns along the river, involving a fast black car.
Author
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Winterborne home volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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After years in foster care, April gets to live in a mansion where she and four other children are caught up in a mystery related to a missing heir, a lost legacy, and the Phantom.
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Boxcar children volume 17
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
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A young Canadian visitor helps the Alden family solve a mystery involving a lost coin collection.
Author
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Boxcar children volume 13
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
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A family, snowbound in a vacation cabin, discovers adventure in surrounding wild life, three children they find in the snow, and a search for a lost recipe.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
"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,...
14) Loot
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
When Alfie McQuinn, the notorious jewel thief, is killed on a job, his last words to his son, March, are to "find jewels" and this instruction leads the boy to Jules, the twin sister he never knew he had--and the perfect partner to carry on the family business.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
Anne, an eleven-year-old orphan, is sent by mistake to live with a lonely, middle-aged brother and sister on a Prince Edward Island farm and proceeds to make an indelible impression on everyone around her. Anne, an eleven-year-old orphan, is sent by mistake to live with a lonely, middle-aged brother and sister on a Prince Edward Island farm and proceeds to make an indelible impression on everyone around her. This beloved novel about an 11-year-old...
Author
Series
Boxcar children volume 59
Publisher
Albert Whitman & Co
Pub. Date
1997.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
The Boxcar children investigate the disappearance of a student's research paper from an observatory and the subsequent disappearance of another student.
Author
Series
Curiosity House volume 2
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
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.
19) A bit of Earth
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English
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"Difficult child Maria Latif arrives in Long Island from Pakistan to live with the strange Clayborne family where she discovers an off-limits garden that becomes a place where she finally feels at home"--
Growing up in Pakistan, Maria Latif has been bounced between reluctant relatives for as long as she can remember--first because of her parents' constant travel, and then because of their deaths. Maria has always been a difficult child, and it never...
Author
Series
Boxcar children volume 31
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
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Description
While helping fix up the old house their cousins have bought, the Aldens hear stories about its being haunted and find evidence suggesting that there may be a ghost there.
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