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1) The BFG
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Kidsnatched from her orphanage by a BFG (Big Friendly Giant), who spends his life blowing happy dreams to children, Sophie concocts with him a plan to save the world from nine other man-gobbling cannybull giants.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
"A magical island. A dangerous task. A burning secret. Linus Baker leads a quiet, solitary life. At forty, he lives in a tiny house with a devious cat and his old records. As a Case Worker at the Department in Charge Of Magical Youth, he spends his days overseeing the well-being of children in government-sanctioned orphanages. When Linus is unexpectedly summoned by Extremely Upper Management he's given a curious and highly classified assignment: travel...
Author
Series
Folk of the air volume 1
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
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Description
"Jude was seven years old when her parents were murdered and she and her two sisters were stolen away to live in the treacherous High Court of Faerie. Ten years later, Jude wants to belong there, despite her mortality. But many of the fey despise humans. Especially Prince Cardan, the youngest and wickedest son of the High King. To win a place at the Court, she must defy him--and face the consequences. In doing so, she becomes embroiled in palace...
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
Kingkiller chronicles volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 39
Language
English
Formats
Description
The tale of Kvothe, from his childhood in a troupe of traveling players to years spent as a near-feral orphan in a crime-riddled city to his daringly brazen yet successful bid to enter a difficult and dangerous school of magic. In these pages, you will come to know Kvothe as a notorious magician, an accomplished thief, a masterful musician, and an infamous assassin. But this book is so much more, for the story it tells reveals the truth behind Kvothe's...
Author
Series
Ascendance trilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
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Children's Genre: Adventure Books for Middle Schoolers
Children's Read Alikes: Cinder
Children's Read Alikes: Harry Potter
Children's Recommended: E-Audiobook Fiction for Middle Grades
Children's Read Alikes: Cinder
Children's Read Alikes: Harry Potter
Children's Recommended: E-Audiobook Fiction for Middle Grades
Description
In a discontented kingdom, civil war is brewing. To unify the divided people, Conner, a nobleman of the court, devises a cunning plan to find an impersonator of the king's long-lost son and install him as a puppet prince. Four orphans are recruited to compete for the role, including a defiant boy named Sage. Sage knows that Conner's motives are more than questionable, yet his life balances on a sword's point -- he must be chosen to play the prince...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
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.
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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Children's Classics: Chapter Books
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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."--
Author
Series
Winterhouse volume 2
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Back at the Winterhouse hotel for another holiday season, Elizabeth and Freddy, who love puzzles, dig deeper into the mystery surrounding a hotel guest who left behind odd artifacts, including a magical book that evil Gracella Winters once attempted to use to gain destructive power over the entire Falls lineage.
Author
Series
The 39 clues. Main series volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
At the reading of their grandmother's will, Dan and Amy Cahill are given the choice of receiving a million dollars or uncovering the 39 clues hidden around the world that will lead to the source of the family's power, but by taking on the clues, they end up in a dangerous race against their own family members. Maze of bones is the first in a series of 10 books. The publisher offers an online game as well.
11) Siege and storm
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Formats
Description
Hunted across the True Sea and haunted by the lives she took on the Fold, Alina must try to make a life with Mal in an unfamiliar land, all while keeping her identity as the Sun Summoner a secret.
12) Delirium
Author
Series
Delirium trilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Formats
Description
Lena looks forward to receiving the government-mandated cure that prevents the delirium of love and leads to a safe, predictable, and happy life, until right before her eighteenth birthday and her treatment, when she falls in love.
13) The wide window
Author
Series
A series of unfortunate events volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Dear Reader, if you have not read anything about the Baudelaire orphans, then before you read even one more sentence, you should know this: Violet, Klaus, and Sunny are kindhearted and quick-witted; but their lives, I am 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. If you haven't got the stomach for a story that includes a hurricane,...
14) Anne of Avonlea
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.6 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
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Formats
Description
In this sequel to Anne of Green Gables, Anne Shirley, the engaging orphan, just "half-past sixteen," becomes a schoolma'am in a small village on Prince Edward Island.
15) Jane Eyre
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 33
Language
English
Description
The literary masterpiece, introduced by contemporary novelist-of-manners Diana Johnson, is a quintessential love story where a bright, lonely, and steadfast young woman finds mystery, sorrow, and true love with the inimitable Mr. Rochester.
16) Let the sky fall
Author
Series
Sky fall series volume 1
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Ten years after surviving the tornado that killed his parents, Vane Weston, now seventeen, has no memory of that fateful day but dreams of a beautiful girl who, he now learns, is not only real, she is his guardian sylph, who harnesses the power of the wind.
17) One false note
Author
Series
The 39 clues. Main series volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
A million dollars, or a clue? Police report a break-in at an elite hotel, and the suspects sound suspiciously like Amy and Dan. There's a car and speedboat chase and an angry mob! When there's a clue on the line, anything can happen.
Author
Series
Boxcar children volume 17
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
A young Canadian visitor helps the Alden family solve a mystery involving a lost coin collection.
19) Chain of gold
Author
Series
Last hours (Shadowhunters) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 28
Language
English
Description
Cordelia Carstairs, a Shadowhunter trained to battle demons, travels with her brother to London where they reconnect with childhood friends but soon must face devastating demon attacks in the quarantined city.
20) Never say die
Author
Series
Alex Rider adventures volume 11
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old MI6 agent Alex Rider travels around the world on a dangerous mission to destroy the deadly terrorist organization, Scorpia, once and for all.
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