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Author
Publisher
Eos
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
In a future New York where most people can fly and cats are a rarity, a nondescript resident of Hope House for the Homeless and Hopeless discovers that although she is shunned as a "leadfoot," she has the surprising ability to become invisible.
Author
Publisher
Joanna Cotler Books
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
In 1905, ten-year-old Billy is taken from an orphanage to live with an aunt and uncle he never knew he had, and he enjoys his first taste of family life until his work in a coal mine and involvement with a union brings trouble, then he joins a circus in hopes of finding his father.
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Seventh-grader Jess and her friends establish the Order of the Oleander to collect supplies for an orphanage in Kabul, Afghanistan, where two of their parents are deployed, but when disaster strikes and many blame the Order, Jess must find a way to go on.
Author
Series
Book of Lies series volume 1
Publisher
HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
On the night he was brought to an orphanage, Marcel's memories were taken by a sorceror and replaced with new ones by his Book of Lies, but Bea, a girl with the ability to make herself invisible, was watching and is determined to help him discover his true identity.
Author
Publisher
Wendy Lamb Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
In 1939, after cruel treatment at her orphanage renders her mute, Lucy runs away and joins the circus, working with the elephants and unaware that the orphanage matrons are hunting for her.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
A debut novel by the award-winning author of The Memory Palace follows the experiences of a foxlike foundling with one ear who endures an oppressive life in an orphanage for part-animal humans until an unexpected act of courage leads to a friendship and a quest to discover his destiny.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Practically-perfect twelve-year-old Victoria Wright must lie, sneak, and break the rules when her investigation of the disappearance of her best--and only--friend, Lawrence, reveals dark secrets about her town and the orphanage run by the reclusive Mrs. Cavendish.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
In 1936, three children meet at the Mercy Home for Negro Orphans in New York State, and while not all three are orphans, they are all dealing with grief and loss which together, along with the help of a sympathetic staff member and the boxing matches of Joe Louis, they manage to overcome. Includes author's notes.
Author
Series
Oracles of Delphi Keep volume 1
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 25
Language
English
Description
In 1938, three orphans--Theo, Carl, and Ian, ages ten to thirteen--lead three teachers through a portal that takes them from Dover, England, to Morocco in their quest to locate six silver boxes before the ancient prophecies therein are found by the evil Demogorgon's offspring.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
In St. Louis, Missouri, in 1911, orphaned eleven-year-old Julia Delaney rails against countless disappointments and the nun's strict rules at the House of Mercy, especially after her sister Mary turns fourteen and must leave, but she, her family, and best friend get tangled up with a gangster and a decade-old mystery.
11) The unadoptables
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
In all the years that Elinora Gassbeek has been matron of the Little Tulip Orphanage, not once have the Rules for Baby Abandonment been broken. Until the autumn of 1880, when five babies are left in outrageous circumstances; one in a tin toolbox, one in a coal bucket, one in a picnic hamper, one in a wheat sack, and finally, one in a coffin-shaped basket. Those babies were Lotta, Egg, Fenna, Sem, and Milou. And although their cruel matron might think...
Author
Series
Oracles of Delphi Keep volume 3
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
In 1940, when Delphi Keep's taken over by the Royal Navy as a communications outpost, Ian, Theo, and Carl dread being evacuated to the earl's winter residence where they'll no longer be protected, but are even more concerned about deciphering the third prophecy and identifying the Secret Keeper.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
"It's 1941, and tensions are rising in the United States as the Second World War rages in Europe. Eleven-year-old Gusta's life, like the world around her, is about to change. Her father, a foreign-born labor organizer, has had to flee the country, and Gusta has been sent to live in an orphanage run by her grandmother. Nearsighted, snaggletoothed Gusta arrives in Springdale, Maine, lugging her one precious possession: a beloved old French horn, her...