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English
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Eight year-old orphan Beth Harmon is quiet, sullen, and by all appearances unremarkable. That is, until she plays her first game of chess. Her senses grow sharper, her thinking clearer, and for the first time in her life she feels herself fully in control. By the age of sixteen, she's competing for the U.S. Open championship. But as Beth hones her skills on the professional circuit, the stakes get higher, her isolation grows more frightening, and...
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Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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"A warm and uplifting novel about an isolated witch whose opportunity to embrace a quirky new family--and a new love--changes the course of her life. As one of the few witches in Britain, Mika Moon knows she has to hide her magic, keep her head down, and stay away from other witches so their powers don't mingle and draw attention. And as an orphan who lost her parents at a young age and was raised by strangers, she's used to being alone and she follows...
44) Mike's mystery
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
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The Alden children meet Mike Wood and a strange chain of events begins. Mike's house is mysteriously burned down, a man in a blue hat appears, and the Alden's uranium mine is in danger of being sabotaged. The four children solve the mystery.
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Language
English
Description
Reeling from her parents' deaths, Lucy Claremont discovers an artifact in their London flat, leading her to a seaside estate. Aided by her childhood friend Dashel, a forensic astronomer, they start to unravel a history of heartbreak, sacrifice, and love begun 200 years prior-one that may heal them both.
47) Blue Moon haven
Author
Series
New Americana volume 7
Language
English
Description
Kelly Jenkins heads to bucolic Blue Moon, Alabama, believing a new life will heal the two orphaned children in her care. Signing on to revive the drive-in theater seems like a worthy venture, until she discovers the property is in deep disrepair. Still, spurred on by the elderly owner's plea, Kelly takes on the renovation, beginning with an ancient tree that needs to come down -- and unexpectedly bringing on the wrath of her reclusive neighbor . ....
Author
Series
Crowthistle chronicles volume 2
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 36
Physical Desc
480 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Her world shattered by the untimely deaths of her parents, Jewel learns that she is the last surviving member of a family line containing a mystical power sought by the evil King Uabhar.
49) Blue Bay mystery
Author
Series
Boxcar children volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
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Benny's friend accompanies the Aldens to the South Seas for a vacation on a supposedly deserted island where they find an unusual mystery.
Author
Series
Boxcar children volume 73
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Aldens try to help a visiting Russian gymnast who is surrounded by mysterious people and events and who seems to have a secret.
Author
Series
White rabbit chronicles volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Formats
Description
After a strange new zombie attack, a terrible darkness blooms inside Alice urging her to do wicked things. She's never needed her team of zombie slayers more --including her boyfriend, Cole -- than she does now. But as Cole strangely withdraws and the zombies gain new strength, Ali knows one false step may doom them all.
52) The Gull Yettin
Author
Publisher
New York Review Comics
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly color illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Told in striking colors and loose but confident lines, The Gull Yettin's story begins when a young boy awakens late one night to find his home on fire. The boy is saved by a lanky, shapeshifting Gull. Orphaned by the fire, and now adrift in a boat piloted by the Gull, the boy faces an uncertain future, one that will be both helped and hindered by his new attendant. Without a word, Kessler builds a strange but recognizable world, using it to explore...
53) The proposal
Author
Series
English garden series (Lori Wick) volume 1
Language
English
Description
Distraught to learn that her tyrannical brother has been granted custody of three children, Lydia and her husband Frank offer advice to William, who finds that the challenge of raising children offers unexpected rewards.
54) The portal
Author
Series
Tangled in time volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
Finding refuge in the greenhouse after her mother's death, Rose investigates a strange light only to find herself transported back in time where she becomes the servant and confidante of Henry VIII's daughter Elizabeth.
Author
Series
White rabbit chronicles volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Formats
Description
Alice Bell must learn to fight the undead to avenge her family and learn to trust Cole Holland who has secrets of his own.
56) Sustaining faith
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"So much has been accomplished. Lillian Walsh has stepped out courageously beyond what she'd ever dreamed of being able to achieve. She and her newly rediscovered sister, Grace, have settled three children from England into new Canadian homes and are prepared to place two more just after the New Year, when it happens--another painful disruption. A white lie the sisters used to protect some orphans has resulted in an official complaint and a letter...
59) This tender land
Author
Language
English
Description
"The acclaimed author of Ordinary Grace crafts a powerful novel about an orphan's life-changing adventure traveling down America's great rivers during the Great Depression, seeking both a place to call home and a sense of purpose in a world sinking into despair"--
1932, Minnesota. The Lincoln School is a pitiless place where hundreds of Native American children, forcibly separated from their parents, are sent to be educated. It is also home to an...
Author
Series
Sisters Grimm volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Orphans Sabrina and Daphne Grimm are sent to live with an eccentric grandmother that they have always believed to be dead.
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