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1022) Out of Salem
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"Genderqueer fourteen-year-old Z Chilworth has to adjust quickly to their new status as a zombie after waking from death from a car crash that killed their parents and sisters. Always a talented witch, Z now can barely perform magic and is rapidly decaying. Faced with rejection from their remaining family members and old friends, Z moves in with Mrs. Dunnigan, an elderly witch and befriends Aysel, a loud would-be-goth classmate who is, like Z, a loner....
1023) The sea turtle mystery
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Boxcar children volume 151
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 2
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"The Aldens are spending spring break on a beach, but they aren't just soaking up the sun. They're protecting an endangered species! Their job is to mark sea turtle nests so the eggs can be moved to a safe place to hatch, but someone is digging up the eggs without permission. Can the Boxcar Children figure out what's going on and help save the sea turtles?" --
1024) Dave at Night
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 8
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If nobody wants him, that's fine. He'll just take care of himself. When his father dies, Dave knows nothing will ever be thesame. And then it happens. Dave lands in an orphanage-the cold and strict Hebrew Home for Boys in Harlem-far from the life he knew on the Lower East Side. But he's not so worried. He knows he'll be okay. He always is. If it doesn't work out, he'll just leave, find a better place to stay. But it's not that simple. Outside the...
1025) Small Mercies
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Mercy lives in modern-day Pietermaritzburg, South Africa with her eccentric foster aunts-two elderly sisters so poor, they can only afford one lightbulb. A nasty housing developer is eying their house. And that same house suddenly starts falling apart-just as Aunt Flora starts falling apart. She's forgetting words, names, and even how to behave in public. Mercy tries to keep her head down at school so nobody notices her. But when a classmate frames...
1026) Dactyl Hill Squad
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Dactyl Hill Squad volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 7
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English
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It is the summer of 1863, and as the Civil War rages between dinosaur-mounted armies down south, and a tense New York City seems on the brink of exploding into riots, Magdalys Roca and the other children at the Colored Orphan Asylum are trying to survive; but when she receives a letter telling her that her brother Montez was wounded, Magdalys knows that somehow she must reach him--and just possibly her ability to communicate telepathically with dinosaurs...
1027) The Blood Heir
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The Gray Clan has scattered. The shadows thirst for blood. The end has come.
Trapped in the Academy where the beauty of magic is only a myth, Jacob and Emilia struggle to recover from terrible losses after their battle with the Pendragon. The horror stories of life in the Academy did not prepare the Grays for what the students truly face. With the Headmistress refusing to tell her students of the murder and chaos the Dragons have wrought, escape...
1028) The Orphan Maker's Sin
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Fifteen years have passed since a car bomb blew up seven-year-old Ella's father, a colonel in the Air Force. One minute her daddy was there. The next? He disappeared, leaving only a charred shell of a vehicle and a burnt hubcap clacking down a Turkish street. Gone. As if, he never existed at all.
The percussion of her father's violent death still ricochets in the present. Ella yearns for healing and peace from the emotional shrapnel embedded in her...
1029) Outburst
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After serving time for assault, Jada lands in foster care and a new school. She knows she has to control her bursts of anger if she wants to live with her mom. Can she turn her life around?
1030) Sawdust in His Shoes
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An outsider becomes a hero and a boy becomes a man in this classic coming-of-age tale from the heyday of the three-ring circus, by three-time Newbery Honor Book author Eloise Jarvis McGraw. The circus is all young Joe Lang knows. The third generation of a circus family, he becomes a star bareback rider by the time he turns fifteen. But when his father, a lion-tamer, is killed by one of his cats, Joe becomes an orphan and is sent away to a vocational...
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Seven-year-old Chellamuthu's life-and his destiny-is forever changed when he is kidnapped from his village in Southern India and sold to the Lincoln Home for Homeless Children. His family is desperate to find him, and Chellamuthu anxiously tells the Indian orphanage he is not an orphan, that he has a mother who loves him. But he is told not to worry as he will soon be adopted by a loving family in America.
Chellamuthu is suddenly surrounded by...
1032) Run Away Home: Tempered
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Peter and Hayley are two young adults who're set to age out of Long Island's foster care system together. It's an exciting time for the two, and life should be fun without rules and the watchful eye of a foster parent. However, with the news of their foster mother's terminal illness, Peter has decided to adopt Danny, a thirteen-year-old boy also in her care. Now, Peter's life isn't the same.
The three must continue to live together in a new apartment....
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La douleur de la perte d'un être cher exprimée avec les mots d'une enfant.
« Personne ne peut revenir en arrière et créer un nouveau départ, mais tout le monde peut commencer aujourd'hui et créer une nouvelle fin. »
À la mort de sa mère, alors qu'elle n'est encore qu'une enfant, la vie de Mélissa s'écroule. Sans amis, délaissée par un père toujours absent, elle doit affronter la vie, seule. Avec courage et obstination, au fil...
1034) En images
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Ethan vit dans une famille d'accueil et s'efforce de rester dans le droit chemin. Enrlé dans un programme de photographie pour jeunes, il se trouve menacé à plusieurs reprises par quelqu'un qui veut s'emparer de son appareil photo. Que sait Ethan? Pour quelles images quelqu'un serait-il prêt à tuer? Ethan tente de résoudre le mystère tout en évitant les ennuis. Il découvre qu'il a toutes les réponses. Il ne lui reste plus qu'à découvrir...
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Secret histories (Jackie French) volume 5
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English
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The whisper in the darkness is: rebellion! (Or: death or liberty!)
Frog is an orphan, a pickpocket, starving on the streets of Parramatta in 1804.
But when the tall, commanding Irish rebel Mr. Cunningham talks of freedom from tyranny and the lash, Frog creeps out to join the rebels, the 10,000 convicts who will take over the colony and proclaim the Republic of New Ireland.
Will farmers like Barney and Elsie Bean join the battle against the corrupt...
1036) I'll Be Watching
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Shortlisted for the Sheila A. Egoff Children's Literature Prize. In a small prairie town like Argue, Saskatchewan, everyone knows everybody else's business. Everyone knows that the Loney family has been barely hanging on -- the father, George, reduced to drink and despair since the loss of his farm and the death of his wife, Margaret. That the four Loney children do not get along with George's second wife, the pious, bitter Effie. Then George dies...
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Butter Me Fly: My Way Home tells the poignant and tragic story of a once-perfect family that became victims of their own success. It highlights the dangers of neglecting the family in pursuit of material goals and social validation. Told with powerful prose and filled complex but relatable characters with a plot that will keep you at the edge of your seat and hooked until the last page. Butter Me Fly is a powerful novel that narrates the story of...
1038) The Boatman
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Isabel Wixon is weird. Not only does she see dead things, but her list of friends consists of a talkative ventriloquist's dummy and the gentlemanly spider that lives in her hair.
Real friends? Too hard. Inventing friends is much easier.
Inventing the Boatman-a terrible monster that lures kids into a strange sleeping sickness and never lets them go-probably wasn't one of her better ideas though.
1039) Street Child
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The unforgettable tale of an orphan in Victorian London, based on the boy whose plight inspired Dr. Barnardo to found his famous children's homes.
When his mother dies, Jim Jarvis is left all alone in London. He is sent to the workhouse but quickly escapes, choosing a hard life on the streets of the city over the confines of the workhouse walls.
Struggling to survive, Jim finally finds some friends... only to be snatched away and made to work for...
1040) Strays
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Sixteen-year-old Ted O'Connor's parents just died in a fiery car crash, and now he's stuck with a set of semi-psycho foster parents, two foster brothers -- Astin, the cocky gearhead, and C.W., the sometimes gangsta -- and an inner-city high school full of delinquents. He's having pretty much the worst year of his miserable life. Or so he thinks. Is it possible that becoming an orphan is not the worst thing that could have happened to him? Drawing...
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