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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 5
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Fearing that her legal guardian plans to abandon her to return to France, ten-year-old aspiring scientist Lucky Trimble determines to run away while also continuing to seek the Higher Power that will bring stability to her life.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 4
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On New Year's Eve, the octuplets Huit--Annie, Durinda, Georgia, Jackie, Marcia, Petal, Rebecca, and Zinnia--discover that their parents are missing, and then uncover a mysterious note instructing them that each must find her power and her gift if they want to know what happened to their parents.
5) Lucky Breaks
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 6
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Having reached the mature age of eleven in the tiny California town of Hard Pan (population 43), Lucky discovers that there is still much to learn about friendship, parental trust, and the Milky Way galaxy.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 6
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Lost at sea while sailing with his wealthy owners, a Yorkshire terrier washes up, nearly dead, in a village on Prince Edward Island where he is nursed back to health by a lonely widow and is befriended by a fox and an abandoned waif who is also struggling to find a home for herself somewhere.
Author
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Belle Prater's boy volume 002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 5
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In 1955, Woodrow and his cousin Gypsy befriend a new girl in their seventh grade class in rural Virginia, and the three of them set off to find Woodrow's missing mother, encountering unlikely and intriguing coincidences along the way.
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Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 7
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Seventeen-year-old Lucille is struggling to get through each day, paying bills and looking after her little sister, Wren, while her father is institutionalized after a breakdown and her mother is "on vacation," but nothing else seems to matter when she is with Digby Jones, her best friend's twin brother.
9) Coo
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Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 9
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"Coo, a ten-year-old girl raised by a flock of pigeons, delights in finally making human contact, but quickly learns that our world is more cruel and complicated than she could have guessed"--
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Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 10
Description
Twelve-year-old Natalia Rose Baleine Gallagher dreams of seeing whales on the beach near her new home, and is consumed with the prospect that her mother who abandoned her as a child loves and misses her, and wants Nat to find her.--from Publishers description.
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 12
Description
Abandoned as a baby in a forest to be eaten by Shadow Creatures, twelve-year-old Bo and his pet fox embark on a quest to return the wish-granting Stars to the Ulvian sky before the Shadow Witch can steal the star magic.
14) Ferals
Author
Series
Ferals volume 1
Pub. Date
c2015
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 9
Description
In a city ravaged by crime and corruption, 13-year-old orphan Caw's only friends are the murder of crows he has lived with since his parents flung him from their house aged only five. Caw lives in a treehouse in an abandoned city park, surviving on scraps of food and only communicating with his three crows. But a jailbreak at the prison forces him into contact with other humans -- particularly a girl called Lydia, who is attacked by the escaped prisoners...
15) Marcia's madness
Author
Series
Sisters eight volume 5
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 3
Description
The Huit octuplets discover Marcia's special power--the ability to see through things--which helps when their evil neighbor calls Social Services to report that they are living alone because their parents have not returned from wherever they disappeared to.
16) The pack
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Pub. Date
2006.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 8
Description
A band of children must scavenge to survive in a post-apocalyptic future where forbidden territories exist and the line between man and beast is blurred.
Author
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Twelve-year-old Jaden, an emotionally damaged adopted boy fascinated by electricity, feels a connection to a small, weak toddler with special needs in Kazakhstan, where Jaden's family is trying to adopt a "normal" baby.
18) Vox
Author
Series
Edge chronicles. Original series volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 13
Description
Rook Barkwater, the young librarian knight, attempts to stop Vox Verlix, the Most High Academe, in his plot to take over Edgeworld once again.
Author
Series
Sisters eight volume 3
Pub. Date
[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 3
Description
As the Huit octuplets prepare for a St. Patrick's Day parade, Georgia discovers her powers and uncovers the substitute teacher's secret.
Author
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Description
When fifteen-year-old Cathy decides to carpool from Norwalk to tony Greenwich, Connecticut, to study Latin in summer school, she does not expect the shocking events that occured five years earlier to suddenly come flooding back into her relatively settled life.