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1) Angel's gate
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
©1995
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Kimmy encounters two wild children who have grown up in the hills of Australia and tries to protect them from the unknown person who murdered their father.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
©1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
After rescuing an adolescent girl from the sea, researchers learn she has been raised by dolphins and attempt to rehabilitate her to the human world. At the age of four, Mila fell from a refugee craft and was lost in the ocean between Cuba and Florida. Until her rescue eight years later, she lived as a wild child of the sea. As Mila now learns to communicate and deal with the complexities of human feelings, she develops an understanding of a strange...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"A family of wolves takes a little boy into their home in the jungle. The child learns and plays with the other cubs. But can he really live in the jungle? Will the other wolves want him to stay? And will the dangerous tiger Shere Khan catch him?"--P. [4] of cover.
6) Dogchild
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
Jeet was raised by a pack of wild dogs. Recaptured and "rehumanised," Jeet now lives with the last of his people in an ancient walled town in the vast expanse of the Deathlands, besieged by a much larger enemy clan. They are preparing for the final battle and it's Jeet's task to record the events. But Jeet is struggling to come to terms with his half-human, half-dog identity. Can the impending conflict, and his relationship with another rehumanised...
Author
Series
Young Merlin trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Harcourt Brace
Pub. Date
c1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
A foundling rediscovers his identity through the help of the falconer who adopts him.
Author
Series
Philip Brennan novels volume 3
Publisher
Pegasus Crime
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
As a building awaits demolition, a horrifying discovery is made inside the basement: a cage made of human bones, with a terrified, feral child lurking within. Unbeknownst to Detective Inspector Phil Brennan and psychologist Marina Esposito, they have disturbed a killer who has been operating undetected for thirty years. A killer who wants that boy back. But the cage of bones is also a box of secrets-- secrets linking Brennan to the madman in their...
10) He an
Author
Series
Mai tian wen xue volume 228
Publisher
Mai Tian Chu Ban
Pub. Date
2009
Language
中文(繁體)
11) Savage girl
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Bronwyn, reputedly raised by wolves in the wilds of Nevada, is adopted in 1875 by the Delegates, an outlandishly wealthy Manhattan couple. Taken back East to be civilized and introduced into high society, Bronwyn hits the highly mannered world like a bomb. A series of suitors, both young and old, find her irresistible-- until the willful girl's illicit lovers begin to turn up murdered.
13) Janguru bukku
Author
Series
Iwanami shōnen bunko volume 225
Publisher
Iwanamishoten
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
日本語
Author
Series
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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Children's Read Alikes: Series of Unfortunate Events
Children's Special Topics: Fiction with Lexile Over 1000
Children's Special Topics: Fiction with Lexile Over 1000
Description
Fifteen-year-old Miss Penelope Lumley, a recent graduate of the Swanburne Academy for Poor Bright Females, is hired as governess to three young children who have been raised by wolves and must teach them to behave in a civilized manner quickly, in preparation for a Christmas ball.
16) Logan
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
In 2029, a weary Logan earns a living as a chauffeur while caring for the ailing Professor X in a hideout on the Mexican border. But Logan's attempts to escape from the world and his legacy are upended when a young mutant girl with extraordinary fighting prowess requires his help to outrun sinister figures working for a powerful corporation.
17) The unseen guest
Author
Series
Publisher
Balzer + Bray
Pub. Date
©2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Miss Penelope Lumley embarks on an investigation into the mysteries surrounding the Incorrigible children, Lord Ashton, the forests of Ashton Place, and her own past"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Miss Penelope Lumley assuages the disappointments of her sixteenth birthday by accepting an invitation to speak at her former school, the Swanburne Academy for Poor Bright Females, which will be closed if she cannot prove the academic progress of her incorrigible charges.
20) Tarzan
Series
Publisher
Walt Disney Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Raised by gorillas, Tarzan has made the jungle his home and the animals his friends. But with the appearance of humans, the only world Tarzan has ever known and the one in which he belongs are about to become one.
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