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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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"Life in East Germany in the early 1980s is not easy for most people, but for Lena, it's particularly hard. After the death of her parents in a factory explosion and time spent in a psychiatric hospital recovering from the trauma, she is sent to live with her stern aunt, a devoted member of the ruling Communist Party. Visits with her beloved Uncle Erich, a best-selling author, are her only respite. But one night, her uncle disappears without a trace....
1062) Home for a while
Author
Publisher
Magination Press, an imprint of the American Psychological Association
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
Calvin has lived in many houses that never felt like home, but Maggie, his new foster mother, helps him deal with his emotions when he misbehaves, and still offers hugs.
1063) A list of cages
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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When Adam Blake lands the best elective ever in his senior year, serving as an aide to the school psychologist, he thinks he's got it made. Sure, it means a lot of sitting around, which isn't easy for a guy with ADHD, but he can't complain, since he gets to spend the period texting all his friends. Then the doctor asks him to track down the troubled freshman who keeps dodging her, and Adam discovers that the boy is Julian -- the foster brother he...
1064) Forbidden
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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In early-nineteenth century Scotland, sixteen-year-old Josie, an orphan, is sent to live with an aunt and uncle on the rocky, stormy northwest coast. Everything and everyone in her new surroundings, including her relatives, is sinister, threatening, and mysterious. She's told that Eli, the young man she's attracted to, is forbidden to her, but not why. Spirited, curious, and determined, Josie sets out to learn the village's secrets and discovers evil,...
1065) Between Before and After
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English
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"The carnage began with the roses. She hacked at their ruffled blooms until they dropped into monstrous drifts of red on the parched yellow lawn … Only two things kept my mother grounded to us: my uncle Stephen and stories."
Fourteen-year-old Molly worries about school, friends, and her parents' failed marriage, but mostly about her mother's growing depression. Molly knows her mother is nursing a carefully-kept secret. A writer with an obsession...
1066) La travesía de Santiago
Author
Publisher
A Paula Wiseman Book / Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 9
Physical Desc
330 pages ; 22 cm
Language
Español
1067) Zorrie: a novel
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
161 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
After losing both her parents and her aunt, Zorrie is cast into the perilous realities of rural Depression-era Indiana. Drifting west, surviving on odd jobs, Zorrie finds a position at a radium processing plant. When Indiana calls Zorrie home, she finds the love and community that has always eluded her in and around the small town of Hillisburg, but discovers that her trials have only begun. -- adapted from jacket
Author
Series
Magic misfits volume 3
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 7
Physical Desc
313 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
New member Emily helps the Magic Misfits when a ventriloquist with a dastardly plan comes to town.
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Language
English
Description
"Brownlee writes with all the breathless excitement and excruciating longing of a first love, further complicated by the forbidden nature of their romance... One of the most believable love triangles on the page in ages."-Entertainment Weekly
An attraction between foster siblings sets fire to forbidden love in this contemporary reimagining of Wuthering Heights.
Emma's life has always gone according to her very careful plans. But things take a turn...
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Language
English
Description
Revisit two heartbreakingly powerful novels from #1 New York Times Bestselling author, Jennifer L. Armentrout.
THE PROBLEM WITH FOREVER
For some people, silence is a weapon. For Mallory "Mouse" Dodge, it's a shield. Growing up, she learned that the best way to survive was to say nothing. And even though it's been four years since her nightmare ended, she's beginning to worry that the fear that holds her back will last a lifetime.
Now, after...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Ollie is struggling to get by as an orphan in 1871 Chicago. He finds work as a servant for the wealthy Burnham family, including caring for five-year-old Leo Burnham. But Ollie has a little sister of his own-Eliza. Ollie saves every penny he can to someday get Eliza out of an orphan asylum and support them both. Then a massive fire breaks out in the city, and chaos descends. Suddenly Ollie must not only escape the burning city with...
1072) Sirlecques
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Series
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Français
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Anthony Verdier, ancien agent d'une organisation secrète combattant les forces de l'Ombre, pensait couler des jours heureux avec sa famille recomposée ; hélas, en retrouvant ses pouvoirs de Visionnaire perdus à l'adolescence, il se voit de nouveau confronté à de fréquentes crises : lorsque dans l'une d'elle il aperçoit un jeune homme aux prises avec des créatures étranges, il comprend qu'une menace couve. Mais laquelle ?
Avec l'aide de...
1073) The Way to Rio Luna
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Danny Monteverde believes in magic. He knows that pixie dust is real, that wardrobes act as portals, and that rabbit holes lead to Wonderland. Most of all, he believes that his older sister, Pili, is waiting for him somewhere in Rio Luna, the enchanted land in their favorite book of fairy tales.
Danny doesn't care what the adults say. He knows that Pili isn't another teen runaway. When the siblings were placed in separate foster homes,...
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Français
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Le journal intime d'une jeune fille, adressé à son père disparu.
Paloma part en vacances en Guadeloupe avec sa maman. C'est Philippe, le nouvel ami de sa mère, qui leur fait visiter cet archipel dont il est originaire. Elle découvre des îles colorées, de nouvelles odeurs, des traditions riches, mais aussi Léo, le neveu de Philippe.
Ce séjour est pour elle l'occasion de faire peu à peu le deuil de son père, en apprenant à apprécier Philippe.
Les...
1075) Throwaway Girl
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Language
English
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When your teen years are so messed up, how do you grow up happy? Andy Burton knows a thing or two about survival. Since she was removed from her mother's home and placed in foster care when she was nine, she's had to deal with abuse, hunger, and homelessness. But now that she's eighteen, she's about to leave Haywood House, the group home for girls where she's lived for the past four years, and the closest thing to a real home she's ever known. Will...
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Français
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Un enfant se découvre au sein d'une communauté pour le moins hors du commun et doit lutter contre les forces du mal.
Thibault Castérède, 12 ans, est sujet à des crises d'épilepsie. C'est du moins ce que prétendent les médecins. Et c'est la raison pour laquelle le jeune garçon n'a jamais quitté l'orphelinat o il a été placé très jeune. Jusqu'au jour o Marc Pertella vient le recueillir, à sa grande surprise, pour l'emmener au Chateau...
1077) Orphan Ahwak
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Language
English
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Aneze, a young Aboriginal girl, is left for dead after her village is ripped apart by a wife-raid; her father and brother are killed and her mother is kidnapped. Aneze is the only survivor. She renames herself Orphan Ahwak as she struggles to survive on her own, first in the forest and then in a remote world of tundra and sea-ice. She endures cold and hunger and befriends people whose customs are completely foreign to her. Through it all she remains...
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Français
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Un roman destiné aux enfants à partir de 9 ans.
À la mort de ses parents, Jérémie emménage chez son oncle, M. Hollbrook. Entre Chelsea, sa jeune cousine, qui voit d'un mauvais œil l'arrivée de ce nouvel habitant, et Prudence, la vieille gouvernante, aussi acariâtre que bourrue, Jérémie se sent plus seul que jamais. Pour arranger le tout, sa nouvelle maison semble receler d'étranges secrets. Un piano qui vole, un vieillard qui apparaît...
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English
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"Darwin, 1942. As Japanese bombs rain down on her hometown, newly orphaned Molly Hook looks to the skies and runs for her life. Inside a duffel bag, she carries a stone heart and a map that will lead her to Longcoat Bob, the deep-country sorcerer whom she believes cursed her family. Accompanying her are the most unlikely traveling companions: Greta, a razor-tongued actress, and Yukio, a Japanese fighter pilot who's abandoned his post. With messages...
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 12
Physical Desc
367 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Recently orphaned and destitute, seventeen-year-old Liza Hastings earns a position as a lady's maid to sixteen-year-old Princess Victoria at Kensington Palace in 1836, the year before Victoria becomes Queen of England.
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