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81) Once there was
Author
Publisher
Simon and Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
When fifteen-year-old Iranian American Marjan discovers her murdered father was secretly a veterinarian to magical creatures, she realizes she must take up his mantle, despite the many dangers.
Author
Series
Tangled in time volume 2
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Forced to abandon Princess Elizabeth when Mary ascends the English throne, Rose sews elaborate gowns for Mary's upcoming coronation before violently escalating attacks on Protestants compel her to escape into her own time.
Author
Series
Dactyl Hill Squad volume 1
Publisher
Arthur A. Levine Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
It is the summer of 1863, and as the Civil War rages between dinosaur-mounted armies down south, and a tense New York City seems on the brink of exploding into riots, Magdalys Roca and the other children at the Colored Orphan Asylum are trying to survive; but when she receives a letter telling her that her brother Montez was wounded, Magdalys knows that somehow she must reach him--and just possibly her ability to communicate telepathically with dinosaurs...
84) The BFG
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
"The BFG is no ordinary bone-crunching giant. He is far too nice and jumbly. It's lucky for Sophie that he is. Had she been carried off in the middle of the night by the Bloodbottler, or any of the other giants-- rather that the BFG-- she would have soon become breakfast. When Sophie hears that the giants are flush-bunking off to England to swollomp a few nice little chiddlers, she decides she must stop them once and for all. And the BFG is going...
Author
Series
A series of unfortunate events volume 12
Pub. Date
2005.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Baudelaire orphans disguise themselves as employees of the Hotel Denoument and find themselves pursued by the evil Count Olaf and by others.
Publisher
Albert Whitman & Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Years ago, a man disappeared from the yellow house on Surprise Island. Why? The Aldens have found a clue to the mystery! Adapted from Gertrude Chandler Warner's story of the same name, this new version introduces young readers to a Boxcar Children classic." --
87) The maze cutter
Author
Series
Maze cutter trilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
"73 years after THE MAZE RUNNER series, the descendants of dystopia have thrived on the island but must leave everything they know behind when a ship comes from the old world with news about how they are needed to save civilization"--
"Sadina, Isaac, and Jackie all learned about the unkind history of the Gladers from The Book of Newt and tall tales from Old Man Frypan, but when a rusty old boat shows up one day with a woman bearing dark news of the...
Author
Series
Boxcar children volume 46
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Boxcar children investigate when ice cream and other items start disappearing from their favorite ice cream parlor.
89) The Willoughbys
Author
Series
Willoughbys volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this tongue-in-cheek take on classic themes in children's literature, the four Willoughby children set about to become "deserving orphans" after their neglectful parents embark on a treacherous around-the-world adventure, leaving them in the care of an odious nanny.
Series
Boxcar children volume 1
Publisher
Albert Whitman & Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Henry, Jessie, Violet, and Benny Alden are orphans looking for a place to live together as a family. Could a boxcar in the woods be their new home?"--
Author
Series
Winterhouse volume 2
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Back at the Winterhouse hotel for another holiday season, Elizabeth and Freddy, who love puzzles, dig deeper into the mystery surrounding a hotel guest who left behind odd artifacts, including a magical book that evil Gracella Winters once attempted to use to gain destructive power over the entire Falls lineage.
92) Eventide
Author
Publisher
Tor Teen
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Wheeler, Arkansas, 1907. When their father descends into madness after the death of their mother, Verity Pruitt and her little sister Lilah find themselves on an orphan train to rural Arkansas. In Wheeler, eleven-year-old Lilah is quickly adopted, but seventeen-year-old Verity is not. Desperate to stay close to her sister, Verity indentures herself as a farmhand. But even charming farm boy Abel Atchley can't completely distract her from the sense...
Author
Series
Winterhouse volume 3
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
It's springtime at Winterhouse and Elizabeth is settling into the joyful chaos of her new home. But it isn't long before she and Freddy are drawn into an ominous new mystery. Guests at the hotel start behaving oddly, and Elizabeth's powers manifest in thrilling--sometimes frightening--new ways. As unnatural tremors shake the foundations of Winterhouse, Elizabeth hears cries for help from Gracella Winters, a villain she'd thought dead and gone for...
Author
Series
Boxcar children great adventures volume 2
Publisher
Albert Whitman
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
"In this all-new very special mini-series, the Aldens have been recruited by a secret society to return lost artifacts and treasures to their rightful locations-all around the world! The Aldens arrive in Egypt but the agent they're supposed to meet has gone missing! With the help of a puzzle in a papyrus scroll, they figure out their next mission-to deliver a tiny ancient pharaoh statue to an archaelogist at the Pyramids! Along the way they outwit...
Author
Series
Boxcar children volume 91
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
While Henry, Jessie, Violet, and Benny help a friend fix up an old mansion filled with skeletons belonging to the doctor who once lived there, statues begin disappearing from the mansion grounds and a walking skeleton may be the culprit.
Author
Series
Boxcar children volume 92
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Boxcar children have to solve the mystery of the strange notes concerning a new painter at the art gallery.
97) The Outsiders
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Since his parents' death, fourteen year-old Ponyboy's loyalties have been to his brothers and his gang. When his best friend Johnny kills a member of a rival gang, a nightmare of violence begins and swiftly envelopes Ponyboy in a turbulent chain of events.
Author
Series
Magic misfits volume 3
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
New member Emily helps the Magic Misfits when a ventriloquist with a dastardly plan comes to town.
100) Hattie Big Sky
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
After inheriting her uncle's homesteading claim in Montana, sixteen-year-old orphan Hattie Brooks travels from Iowa in 1917 to make a home for herself and encounters some unexpected problems related to the war being fought in Europe.
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