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Kearney, Cheyenne, Rawlins. Reno, Sacramento, San Francisco. At each train station, a few lucky orphans from the crowded streets of New York City receive the fulfillment of their dreams: a home and family. This "orphan train" is the vision of Charles Loring Brace, founder of the Children's Aid Society, who cannot bear to see innocent children abandoned in the overpopulated cities of the mid-nineteenth-century. Yet it is not just the orphans whose...
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HarperPaperbacks
Pub. Date
1993
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English
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A shy Louisiana librarian, Mary Warner fears she'll always be alone-so she answers a personals ad from a rancher in Montana. Never before has she done anything so reckless, casting the only life she knows aside to travel to a strange place and marry a man she's never met. But something about this man calls to her-and she knows this may be her very last chance at happiness.
Tragedy made Travis Thompson the guardian of three orphaned children-and determination...
83) Oliver Twist
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Oliver Twist, by Charles Dickens, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:
• New introductions commissioned from todays top writers and scholars
• Biographies of the authors
• Chronologies of...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 33
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English
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Vowing to bring down the crime boss running the city, a group of Gentlemen Bastards, led by Locke Lamora, sets out to beat the Capa at his own game, taking on other thieves, murderers, beggars, prostitutes, and thugs in the process.
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Penelope Tredwell mysteries volume 1
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IL: MG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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Thirteen-year-old Penelope, the secret author of macabre tales in "The Penny Dreadful," Victorian London's bestselling magazine, investigates the mystery of a strange phenomenon occurring in the local insane asylum.
87) Understood Betsy
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Timid and small for her age, nine-year-old Elizabeth Ann discovers her own abilities and gains a new perception of the world around her when she goes to live with relatives on a farm in Vermont.
88) Starters
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IL: MG+ - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 12
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To support herself and her younger brother in a future Beverly Hills, sixteen-year-old Callie hires her body out to seniors who want to experience being young again, and she lives a fairy-tale life until she learns that her body will commit murder, unless her mind can stop it.
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Sometimes letting go is the only way to really hold on tight. When zoologist Mitch Huntington agreed to be named in his best friends' will as guardian to their daughter, Emily Jane, he was sure it meant nothing more than pony rides, presents on birthdays, and an occasional day at the circus. Instead he finds himself up to his elbows in diapers and soggy oatmeal. While Mitch soon discovers that animal care and baby care are not the same thing, he
...90) Snow like ashes
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Snow like ashes trilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 16
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English
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Orphaned Meira, a fierce chakram-wielding warrior from the Kingdom of Winter, must struggle to free her people from the tyranny of an opposing kingdom while also protecting her own destiny.
91) Goose chase
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 8
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Rather than marry a cruel king or a seemingly dim-witted prince, an enchanted goose girl endures imprisonment, capture by several ogresses, and other dangers, before learning exactly who she is.
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Clockwork dark volume 1
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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Drawn by the lodestone his father gave him years before, twelve-year-old orphan Ray travels south, meeting along the way various characters from folklore who are battling against an evil industry baron known as the Gog.
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Cat Royal volume 1
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Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2008, c2006
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1st American ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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Orphan Catherine "Cat" Royal, living at the Drury Lane Theater in 1790s London, tries to find the "diamond" supposedly hidden in the theater, which unmasks a treasonous political cartoonist, and involves her in the street gangs of Covent Garden and the world of nobility.
94) Tiger's voyage
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 25
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English
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After their battle with the villainous Lokesh, Kelsey and the Indian princes Ren and Kishan return to India, where Kelsey learns that Ren has amnesia and five cunning dragons try to keep the trio from breaking the curse that binds them.
95) Shadow and bone
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2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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Orphaned by the Border Wars, Alina Starkov is taken from obscurity and her only friend, Mal, to become the protegé of the mysterious Darkling, who trains her to join the magical elite in the belief that she is the Sun Summoner, who can destroy the monsters of the Fold.
96) The Willoughbys
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Willoughbys volume 1
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 4
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English
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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.
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Main Street (Ann M. Martin) volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 6
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English
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Flora and Ruby are beginning to adjust to Camden Falls, but they and their friends have problems and hope their friendship will give them the strength to work things out.
98) Ark angel
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Alex Rider adventures volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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After recovering from a near fatal gunshot wound, teenage spy Alex Rider embarks on a new mission to stop a group of eco-terrorists from sabotaging the launch of the first outer space hotel.
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Edge chronicles. Original series volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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Rook Barkwater, one of the apprentices chosen to make a dangerous journey to study in the Deepwoods, joins the sky pirate Captain Twig in opposing the Guardians of the Night and learns more about his own past.
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Strange angels volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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Dru has finally made it to the Schola Prima, the wulfen and djamphir training facility, where she meets another svetocha, Anna, who runs the Order, which rules the supernatural world, and who wants Dru out of the picture.
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