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Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
A group of orphans on the run search for a new home among the stars.
When a group of orphans are thrown together under mysterious circumstances, Phoebe and her pal Oliver lead them in a daring escape from their orphanage to an uninhabited moon. But their idyllic paradise is shattered when the powerful corporate boss who ordered the deaths of their parents sends a relentless henchman to track them down. Now, with nowhere left to turn and time running...
Author
Series
Publisher
Viz Media
Pub. Date
[2015]-
Physical Desc
volumes : chiefly illustrations ; 19 cm
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.
Author
Publisher
Walker Books U.S., a division of Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
GN 710L
Physical Desc
393 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
"When her sister seizes the throne, Queen Eleanor of Albion is banished to a tiny island off the coast of her kingdom, where the nuns of the convent spend their days peacefully praying, sewing, and gardening. But the island is also home to Margaret, a mysterious young orphan girl whose life is upturned when the cold, regal stranger arrives. As Margaret grows closer to Eleanor, she grapples with the revelation of the island's sinister true purpose...
Series
Publisher
Random House Children's Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2021]-
Physical Desc
volumes : color illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
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Description
The mysterious Mandalorian, a lone gunfighter in the outer reaches of the galaxy, walks a thin line between right and wrong far from the authority of the New Republic, in a graphic novel-style retelling of the television series, featuring final frames and dialogue from the series in vibrant full color.
Author
Publisher
Yen Press, an imprint of Yen Press, LLC
Pub. Date
2017-
Edition
First Yen Press edition.
Physical Desc
volumes : illustrations ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
Mysterious objects from space have landed, embedding themselves within human beings around the world and granting them impossible powers according to their deepest wishes. Seventeen-year-old Utsugi Minoru's only wish is to be able to live apart from the world and events around him. But will he remain the same after experiencing his new powers--and new dangers?
Author
Publisher
Dark Horse Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
65 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Olaf's friend at the orphanage in Arendelle village is a spunky girl named Hedda with a big imagination and dreams of adventure. When Kristoff passes through the village and witnesses two kids bullying Hedda, he is drawn to help. He recalls his own experience with bullying during his childhood and assures her that there is hope on the horizon. Things start to look up when Hedda is invited to dinner at Arendelle Castle! Ecstatic, Hedda shares the...
Author
Publisher
Kids Can Press
Pub. Date
2010-
Physical Desc
volumes : chiefly color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Formats
Description
The thieves are Dessa, a teen acrobat with a traveling show who's seeking her lost brother; Topper, a juggler from a blue, troll-like race; and Fisk, the big purple strongman. Dessa has found a makeshift family in her troupe of entertainers, but she's not thrilled with how they make their money. While she performs, her fellow travelers pick the pockets of those distracted by her high-rope act.
Author
Series
Teen Titans (Garcia) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
GN 520L
Language
English
Formats
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."--
11) Cat's cradle
Author
Publisher
Kids Can Press
Pub. Date
[2012-]
Lexile measure
530L
Physical Desc
volumes : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
With monsters slipping through the mountains into the valley of Galatea, Suri, an orphan, dreams of becoming a monster tamer.
12) Me & my brothers
Author
Publisher
Tokyopop
Pub. Date
[2007-]
Physical Desc
volumes : illustrations ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
When fourteen-year-old orphan Sakura discovers that she has four half-brothers, her world is turned upside down when she is forced to live with them.
13) Fruits basket
Author
Series
Fruits basket volume 5
Language
English
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Formats
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,...
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Formats
Description
After her park ranger father dies, Little Dee is swept off on an adventure with a group of animals as they try to protect their penguin friend from being eaten by a pair of hungry polar bears.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
430L
Physical Desc
121 pages : color illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1775, Penny and her friend Nick, a homeless orphan, find themselves amidst the conflict in Massachusetts as the colonists prepare to revolt against the British military.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.2 - AR Pts: 35
Lexile measure
1200L
Language
English
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Description
Great Expectations is at once a superbly constructed novel of spellbinding mastery and a profound examination of moral values. Here, some of Dickens's most memorable characters come to play their part in a story whose title itself reflects the deep irony that shaped Dickens's searching reappraisal of the Victorian middle class.
Author
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
GN 300L
Physical Desc
209 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Formats
Description
Isabel has been sheltered in a high-society world. All that changes, when she breaches an invisible barrier, and steps into a magical and dangerous city where war rages between the fairies of the Seelie and Unseelie Courts.
Author
Series
Tomo volume 1
Publisher
Zondervan
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
ca 175 pages : chiefly illustrated ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Hana would be like any other thirteen-year-old immigrant trying to fit into life at an American school, but she also battles hostile animal-like warriors from the dimension of Argon Falls. In discovering secrets about her identity and her past, Hana bravely faces her enemies and realizes her divinely given purpose."--Cover, p.4.
19) Newsprints
Author
Series
NewsPrints volume 1
Publisher
Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
198 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Blue is an orphan who disguises herself as a newsboy. There's a war going on, and girls are expected to help the struggling economy by selling cookies. But Blue loves living and working at the Bugle, the only paper in town that tells the truth. And what's printed in the newspapers now matters more than ever. But Blue struggles with her secret, and worries that if her friends and adopted family at the Bugle find out that she's a girl, she'll lose everything...
Author
Series
Clem Hetherington volume 1
Publisher
Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic, Inc
Pub. Date
2018-
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
GN 310L
Physical Desc
volumes : chiefly color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Clementine Hetherington and her robot brother, Digory, have run away from the orphanage they've been living in since their parents died. Clem and Dig want to follow in their famous archaeologist mother's footsteps, but no one will take them seriously.
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