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Author
Series
Alex Rider adventures volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Alex continues his work as a spy for the British MI6, investigating an exclusive school for boys in the French Alps.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
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Children's New Books: December 2022 Graphic Novels and Comics
Children's Popular: Graphic Novels with Girl Main Character
Children's Special Topics: Comics or Graphic Adaptations of Well Known Books
Read in Full Bloom: Middle Schoolers
Children's Popular: Graphic Novels with Girl Main Character
Children's Special Topics: Comics or Graphic Adaptations of Well Known Books
Read in Full Bloom: Middle Schoolers
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Description
In this modern retelling, Anne is fostered into the West Philly home of siblings Marilla and Matthew, and while she initially has a hard time at school, she ends up joining the robotics team and competes for a spot in an elite STEM program.
Author
Series
Publisher
Viz Media
Pub. Date
[2015]-
Language
English
Description
After inheriting an ancestral estate, Himari Momochi is supposed to serve as a the estate's guardian between the human and spiritual world, but when she moves in she finds a handsome young man living there who seems to be also acting as a guardian.
4) Spill zone
Author
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2018-
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Author
Series
Promised neverland volume 20
Publisher
VIZ Media, LLC
Pub. Date
2017-
Language
English
Description
The orphans at Grace Field House lead a comfortable life under the care of "Mom," but Emma and Norman uncover a dark truth that is going to change their lives completely.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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Children's Awards: Newbery Medal for Distinguished Literature
Children's Read Alikes: Series of Unfortunate Events
Children's Special Topics: Comics or Graphic Adaptations of Well Known Books
Children's Read Alikes: Series of Unfortunate Events
Children's Special Topics: Comics or Graphic Adaptations of Well Known Books
Description
Nobody Owens, known to his friends as Bod, is a normal boy. He would be completely normal if he didn't live in a sprawling graveyard, being raised and educated by ghosts, with a solitary guardian who belongs to neither the world of the living nor of the dead. There are dangers and adventures in the graveyard for a boy. But if Bod leaves the graveyard, then he will come under attack from the man Jack -- who has already killed Bod's family.
Author
Series
Heartless Prince volume 1
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
To save her love, Prince Ammon, orphaned princess Evony must retrieve his heart from the witch Aradia--a mission that takes her into the mysterious Witchlands, where she discovers a secret about her past that changes everything.
Author
Series
Iyanu volume 2
Publisher
Dark Horse Books
Pub. Date
2021-
Language
English
Description
"A teenage orphan with no recollection of her past, suddenly discovers that she has abilities that rival the ancient deities told in the folklore of her people."--
Author
Series
Teen Titans (Garcia) volume 1
Publisher
DC Comics
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"When a tragic accident takes the life of the only family she's ever known, 16-year-old Raven is sent to New Orleans to start over. She soon discovers that she can hear the thoughts of others around her ... and another, more disturbing, voice in her head."--
10) Endgames
Author
Series
NewsPrints volume 2
Publisher
Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Blue arrives in the capital city of Altalus, where she is determined to find her friend Crow, the boy who was created to be a flying war machine, and Jack, the engineer who built him. But soon she is inadvertently kidnapped by Snow and Red, twins from the enemy side of their ten-year war. They set off on a dangerous adventure that brings them to the front lines of the war, and eventually realize that they must work together to help end it. But with...
Author
Series
39 clues volume 1
Publisher
Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2023]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
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Children’s New Books: April 2023 Graphic Novels and Comics
Children's Special Topics: Comics or Graphic Adaptations of Well Known Books
Children's Special Topics: Comics or Graphic Adaptations of Well Known Books
Description
"Grace is the last matriarch of the Cahills, the world's most powerful family. Everyone from Marie Curie to Harry Houdini is related to the Cahills, yet the source of the family's power is lost. 39 Clues hidden around the world will reveal the family's secret, but no one has been able to assemble them. Now the clues race is on, and siblings Amy and Dan must decide what's important: hunting clues or uncovering what really happened to their parents."--...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Children's Classics: Abridged
Children's Classics: Chapter Books
Children's Classics: for Middle School Students
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Description
"Siblings Marilla and Matthew Cuthbert were planning to adopt an orphaned boy to help out around their farm, Green Gables - instead, they got Anne Shirley. A plucky redheaded girl with a vibrant imagination, Anne turns first Green Gables and then the rest of Prince Edward Island on its ear."--
13) Friends and foes
Author
Series
Red's planet volume 2
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
After crash landing on a distant planet, a ten-year-old redheaded orphan finds herself in a new home surrounded by a host of odd and intriguing friends who must band together when Uskog space pirates return, searching for a mysterious stolen treasure.
14) City of illusion
Author
Series
City of secrets volume 2
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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Children's New Books: 2022 Recent Graphic Novels and Comics Additions
Children's New Books: January 2022 Graphic Novels and Comics
Children's New Books: January 2022 Graphic Novels and Comics
Description
After saving their beloved mechanized city of Oskars, Hannah and Ever team up with new friends to try to save both Oskars and the nearby city of Alexios from the evil assassin Vash.
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books / HarperAlley, imprints of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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Description
Twin siblings Elliot and Liza only have each other. Their parents are gone. Their home was taken, and to survive on their own, they're forced to scrounge up plastic and metal to trade for coin within an abandoned garbage heap. Desperate to escape the vagabond cycle that they're trapped in, the answer to their plight seemingly appears when they stumble upon a Raven Quest--magical tasks offered by mysterious message-carrying ravens that when successfully...
16) Fruits basket
Author
Series
Fruits basket volume 5
Publisher
Yen Press
Pub. Date
2016-
Language
English
Description
"After a family tragedy turns her life upside down, plucky high schooler Tohru Honda takes matters into her own hands and moves out ... into a tent! Unfortunately for her, she pitches her new home on private land belonging to the mysterious Sohma clan, and it isn't long before the owners discover her secret. But as Tohru quickly finds out when the family offers to take her in, the Sohmas have a secret of their own--when embraced by the opposite sex,...
17) Carole & Tuesday
Author
Series
Publisher
Yen Press
Pub. Date
2020-
Language
English
Description
When orphan Carole meets runaway Tuesday, an uptown girl who wants nothing more than to make music, it is as if they were fated to find each other. But on colonized Mars, with a consumer base used to "perfect" A.I.-produced songs, is there any hope their organic sound and heartfelt lyrics will reach their audience?
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.2 - AR Pts: 35
Language
English
Description
One of the most revered works in English literature, Great Expectations traces the coming-of-age of a young orphan, Pip, from a boy of shallow aspirations into a man of maturity. From the chilling opening confrontation with an escaped convict to the grand but eerily disheveled estate of bitter old Miss Havisham, all is not what it seems in Dickens' dark tale of false illusions and thwarted desire. Raised by a humble blacksmith, Pip is recruited by...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
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Description
"Locked doors. Unseen magic. The most contrary of friends. Ten-year-old Mary Lennox arrives at her uncle's secluded estate on the Yorkshire moors with a scowl and a chip on her shoulder. But as she begins to explore her new home alongside ragtag companions--a cocky robin redbreast, a sour-faced gardener, and a boy who can talk to animals--Mary uncovers long-buried family secrets and learns that even the loneliest of hearts can grow roots in rocky...
20) Oliver Twist
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
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Description
Born and raised in the appalling deprivation of a Victorian-era London workhouse, the orphan Oliver escapes the drudgery of apprenticeship only to fall into the hands of the notorious Fagin and his gang of child thieves. But Oliver is an innocent at heart and the attempts by Fagin and the impudently witty Artful Dodger to teach the boy the trick of the pick-pocket's trade lead only to his almost immediate capture. Oliver's rescue by the kindly Mr....
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