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22) Tentacle & wing
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 10
Description
"Twelve-year-old Ada is a Chimera, one of a number of children born with human and animal DNA thanks to a genetic experiment gone wrong. When she is shipped off to a quarantined school for other kids like herself, she senses that the facility is keeping a secret, which, if discovered, could upend everything the world knows about how Chimeras came into being"--
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Series
Harry Potter (Original series) volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 29
Description
"The war against Voldemort is not going well: even Muggle governments are noticing. Ron scans the obituary pages of The Daily Prophet looking for familiar names. Dumbledore is absent from Hogwarts for long stretches of time, and the Order of the Phoenix has already suffered losses. And yet... As in all wars, life goes on. Sixth-year students learn to Apparate, and lose a few eyebrows in the process. The Weasley twins expand their business. Teenagers...
24) Gathering blue
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Description
Lame and suddenly orphaned, Kira is mysteriously removed from her squalid village to live in the palatial Council Edifice, where she is expected to use her gifts as a weaver to do the bidding of the all-powerful Guardians.
Companion book to: The Giver, Messenger, and Son.;Lame and suddenly orphaned, Kira is mysteriously removed from her squalid village to live in the palatial Council Edifice, where she is expected to use her gifts as a weaver to...
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Series
A series of unfortunate events volume 9
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 7
Description
On the run as suspected murderers, the unlucky Baudelaire orphans find themselves trapped in the Caligari Carnival, where they must masquerade as freaks in order to hide from the evil Count Olaf.
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Series
A series of unfortunate events volume 10
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 9
Description
In the perilous Mortmain Mountains, Klaus and Violet Baudelaire meet another well-read person, who helps them try to rescue Sunny from the villainous Count Olaf and his henchmen as they all near "the last safe place."
27) The grim grotto
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Series
A series of unfortunate events volume 11
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 8
Description
Still pursued by the evil Count Olaf, the Baudelaire orphans attempt to reach a very important VFD meeting, but first they must travel in a rattletrap submarine to the Gorgonian Grotto, a dangerous underwater cave, in search of the sugar bowl.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 7
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Description
Marly had been waiting a long time for this special momwnt. She sat alone in the car and stared at the lonely countryside and the small dilapidated house. It had to be the right place. All outdoors. With miracles. Not crowded and people being cross and mean. Daddy not tired all the time. Mothernot worried. She whispered, "Please let there be miracles."
Author
Series
A series of unfortunate events volume 8
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 6
Description
On the run after being falsely accused of murder, the three Baudelaire orphans find themselves in the Heimlich Hospital, with the evil Count Olaf in close pursuit.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 11
Description
Since her mother died when she was born Sara and her father became very close. Sara has to go away to an all girl boarding school in Britian, because her father has to fight in the war. One day a messenger comes and tells her that her father is dead. Since Sara will lose all the money her father has she is forced to be a maid with the other maid who is black named Becky just so she can have a place to live. She finds out that her father is not dead,...
31) Hattie Big Sky
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 10
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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. Alone in the world, teen-aged Hattie is driven to prove up on her uncle's homesteading claim. For years, sixteen-year-old Hattie's been shuttled between relatives. Tired of being Hattie Here-and-There, she courageously...
32) A single shard
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 6
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Description
Tree-ear, a thirteen-year-old orphan in medieval Korea, lives under a bridge in a potters' village, and longs to learn how to throw the delicate celadon ceramics himself.
When Min takes on Tree-ear as his helper, Tree-ear is elated--until he finds obstacles in his path: the backbreaking labor of digging and hauling clay, Min's irascible temper, and his own ignorance. However, Tree-ear is determined to prove himself.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 13
Description
When Mary Lennox is sent from India to the moors of England to live with her uncle after losing her parents, not only does she discover a secret garden, but she also discovers the true meaning of family, friendship, and perseverance. This magical, timeless classic, originally published in 1911, is by the author of A Little Princess and Little Lord Faunteleroy.
34) The Wide Window
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Even more terrible happenings concerning the Baudelaire orphans. Dear Customer, If you have not heard anything about the Baudelaire orphans, then before you listen to even one sentence you should know this: Violet, Klaus and Sunny are kindhearted and quick-witted, but their lives, I'm sorry to say, are filled with bad luck and misery. All of the stories about these three children are unhappy and wretched, and this one may be the worst of them all....
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Series
Winterborne home volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 9
Description
"April thought she had her happy ending. After all, she has her new house and new friends and new guardian. But she also has a very big new secret. The kids of Winterborne House are the only ones who know that Gabriel Winterborne--famous billionaire and terrible cook--is really a sword-wielding vigilante. What they don't know is that he's not the only one. When a masked figure breaks in, looking for something--or someone--it's clear that Gabriel has...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 4
Description
After the sudden death of their parents, the three Baudelaire children must depend on each other and their wits when it turns out that the distant relative who is appointed their guardian is determined to use any means necessary to get their fortune.
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Series
Curiosity House volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 10
Description
In this third book in the exceptional Curiosity House mystery series by bestselling author Lauren Oliver and mysterious recluse H. C. Chester, four children must uncover the evil Nicholas Rattigan’s newest dastardly scheme, wage war with a rival freak show, and deal with a spy who may have infiltrated their happy home.
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Series
A series of unfortunate events volume 5
Description
NOW A NETFLIX ORIGINAL SERIES
As the three Baudelaire orphans warily approach their new home Prufrock Preparatory School, they can't help but notice the enormous stone arch bearing the school's motto Memento Mori or "Remember you will die."
This is not a cheerful greeting and certainly marks an inauspicious beginning to a very bleak story just as we have come to expect from Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events,
...40) The big wave
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 2
Description
His family and village swept away by a tidal wave, Jiya learns to live with the ever-present dangers from the sea and volcano.