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Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
In 1911, when orphaned ten-year-old Inge comes to live with her stern grandmother in a remote island village in Bornholm, Denmark, she ends up changing the climate of the town, bringing joy and laughter to her grandmother's life and finding a new family for herself to help assuage her grief over losing her mother.
62) The Vile village
Author
Series
Series of Unfortunate Events volume 7
Publisher
HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
Under a new government program based on the saying "It takes a village to raise a child," the Baudelaire orphans are adopted by an entire town, with disastrous results.
63) Counting by 7s
Author
Lexile measure
770L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Twelve-year-old genius and outsider Willow Chance must figure out how to connect with other people and find a surrogate family for herself after her parents are killed in a car accident.
64) Slathbog's gold
Author
Series
Adventurers wanted volume 1
Publisher
Shadow Mountain
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
When fifteen-year-old orphan Alex Taylor sees an odd sign in a shop window and goes inside to investigate, he is sent on a quest to defeat an evil dragon, and in the process he confronts his fears and learns about his future and his past.
Author
Series
The Infernal Devices volume 3
Pub. Date
2013.
Lexile measure
840L
Language
English
Formats
Description
When seventeen-year-old orphaned shapechanger Tessa Gray is kidnapped by the villainous Mortmain in his final bid for power, the London Institute rallies to save her, but is beset by danger and betrayal at every turn.
66) Numbers
Author
Publisher
Chicken House/Scholastic
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Jem knows when she looks at someone the exact date they'll die, so she avoids relationships and tries to keep out of the way, but when she meets a boy named Spider and they plan a day out together, they become more involved than either of them had planned.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Amelia Wishart's Christmas spirit helped Santa get the extra boost of magic he needed to make his first trip around the world. When she's sent to the workhouse, now-orphaned Amelia's hope begins to drain away. Santa sets out to find her with the help of his reindeer, a curious cat, and Charles Dickens.
Author
Series
Alex Rider volume 7
Publisher
Speak
Pub. Date
2008.
Lexile measure
740L
Language
English
Description
Alex Rider crash lands off the coast of Australia where he is recruited by the Australian Secret Service to infiltrate one of the ruthless gangs operating across South East Asia, and in the midst of his dangerous mission, Alex discovers information about his parents' murder.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Sixth-grader Theo leaves everything behind to live with his Uncle Chester, a Vietnam War veteran and loner, in Destiny, Florida, but he is drawn to play the piano in Miss Sister's dance school and soon makes friends with the feisty Anabel, a baseball fanatic who invites Theo to help solve a mystery.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2009.
Lexile measure
730L
Language
English
Formats
Description
When ten-year-old orphan Peter Augustus Duchene encounters a fortune teller in the marketplace one day who tells him that his sister, who is presumed dead, is in fact alive, he embarks on a remarkable series of adventures in an attempt to find her.
Author
Series
The Boxcar Children volume 1
Lexile measure
580L
Language
English
Formats
Description
The New York Times -bestselling tale of four orphaned siblings who will do anything to stick together, featuring more than thirty original illustrations. Henry, Jessie, Violet, and Benny Alden take care of one another. They have no parents, no other family-except for a grandfather they don't care to see-and no home . . . until the night they find the boxcar. Old, rusty, lonely, and abandoned in the woods, it's the perfect home for four brave children...
72) Shadow and bone
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2012.
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.
73) Clockwork angel
Author
Series
The Infernal Devices volume 1
Lexile measure
780L
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Tessa Gray travels to England in search of her brother only to be abducted by the Dark Sisters, residents of London's Downworld, home to the city's supernatural folk, and she becomes the object of much attention--both good and bad--when it is discovered she has the power to transform at will into another person.
Author
Series
Jack and the geniuses volume 1
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Traveling to Antarctica for a prestigious science competition, twelve-year-old Jack and his genius foster siblings Ava and Matt become caught up in a mystery involving a missing scientist.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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Description
Twelve-year old orphan Emma Casey lives by a haunted graveyard in her Tennessee town, giving tours, and helping her brother and Granny Blue with the family bakery, and waiting for the destiny dream of her ancestors--but when it comes it shows her only a key, and she finds that she must solve a ghostly mystery that has haunted her town for generations.
Author
Series
The war that saved my life volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
"As the frightening impact of World War II creeps closer and closer to her door, eleven-year-old Ada learns to manage life on the home front"--
77) The lost years
Author
Publisher
Disney Press, an imprint of Disney Book Group
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Becoming lost in the forest, Pete, an abused orphan, forges an unforgettable friendship with a giant flying dragon named Elliot, with whom he shares fantastical woodland adventures.
78) The Fog diver
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"In this futuristic high-stakes adventure, humanity clings to cities on the highest mountain peaks above the deadly Fog, and airships transport the pirates of the skies. Daring 13-year-old tetherboy Chess and his salvage crew must face the dark plans of Lord Kodoc and work to save their beloved Mrs. E"--
Author
Series
The Penelope Tredwell Mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Albert Whitman & Company
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Series
The Penelope Tredwell Mysteries volume 3
Publisher
Albert Whitman & Company
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"In 1902, fifteen-year-old Penelope Tredwell, magazine publisher and writer of macabre tales, must uncover a mystery surrounding the theft of the Crown Jewels and a thief that can walk through walls before the coronation of Edward VII"--
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