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61) Despicable me 2
Publisher
Universal Home Video
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Recruited by the Anti-Villain League, Gru helps deal with a powerful new super criminal.
62) Orphan train
Author
Publisher
Dial
Pub. Date
1978.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Story of twenty-seven "abandoned waifs...from the streets of New York, [who journeyed] westward in 1853 to find new and better lives. They were the first passengers of the 'orphan trains' sponsored by the Children's Aid Society"--Book jacket.
Author
Series
Publisher
Pleasant Company
Pub. Date
[1988]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
While spending the summer at Grandmary's home on Goose Lake, Samantha and the twins Agnes and Agatha decide to visit the island where Samantha's parents were drowned during a storm.
65) Bicycle mystery
Author
Series
Boxcar children volume 15
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
While on bicycle trip to their aunt's farm, the four Aldens help solve a mystery.
Author
Series
Boxcar children volume 98
Publisher
Albert Whitman
Pub. Date
2004.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
When the Aldens visit their friend Fran in Wisconsin, they can't wait to hear her tell the story of the runaway ghost. Fran's family ghost hasn't been spotted in years, but the Aldens still shiver at the spooky tale of the ghost's bell clanging after dark. Then Violet hears a mysterious ringing in the middle of the night and the children start to wonder--could the runaway ghost be back?
67) Ark Angel
Author
Series
Alex Rider adventures volume 6
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
2006.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
After recovering from a near fatal gunshot wound, teenage spy Alex Rider embarks on a new mission to stop a group of eco-terrorists from sabotaging the launch of the first outer space hotel.
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Forced to leave New York City to move in with her aunt in South Dakota, once-wealthy orphan June comes across her mother's coin collection and determines to find a rare penny worth one million dollars so she can return to her life of privilege.
69) The beet queen
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
On a spring morning in 1932, young Karl and Mary Adare arrive by boxcar in Argus, North Dakota. After being orphaned in a most peculiar way, they seek refuge in the butcher shop of their aunt and her husband. So begins an exhilarating forty-year saga brimming with colorful, unforgettable characters: ordinary Mary, who will cause a miracle; seductive Karl, who lacks his sister's gift for survival; Sita, their lovely but disturbed cousin; and the half-Native...
Author
Series
Boxcar children volume 49
Publisher
A. Whitman & Co
Pub. Date
[1995]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Alden children plan to ride in their boxcar at the Greenfield Founders' Day Parade, but the newly refurbished boxcar is stolen a couple of days before the big event.
Author
Series
Boxcar children volume 59
Publisher
Albert Whitman & Co
Pub. Date
1997.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
The Boxcar children investigate the disappearance of a student's research paper from an observatory and the subsequent disappearance of another student.
72) Angel
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[1993]
Language
English
Description
A saga of friendship and fame, secrets, and success.
Orphaned at a young age, the lives of Rosie, Gavin, Nell, and Kevin are irrevocably intertwined. Rising from poverty, all four go on to stunning success: Rosie as an award-winning costume designer; Gavin as a world-renowned Hollywood actor; Nell as the head of a global public relations company; and Kevin as the head of the NYPD Crime Intelligence Commission and a leader in the fight against organized...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Bestselling author Mitch Albom returns to nonfiction for the first time in more than a decade in this poignant memoir that celebrates Chika, a young Haitian orphan whose short life would forever change his heart. Chika Jeune was born three days before the devastating earthquake that decimated Haiti in 2010. She spent her infancy in a landscape of extreme poverty, and when her mother died giving birth to a baby brother, Chika was brought to The Have...
Author
Series
Women of the West (Janette Oke) volume 8
Pub. Date
[1993]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
In Heart of the Wilderness, young Kendra Marty goes to live with her grandfather after her parents die in a river accident. But what can a trapper living in the backwoods offer a small child? Will Kendra ever be ready to face the scary and confusing world far from the wilderness she loves?
Author
Series
Boxcar children volume 13
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
A family, snowbound in a vacation cabin, discovers adventure in surrounding wild life, three children they find in the snow, and a search for a lost recipe.
Author
Series
Boxcar children volume 14
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Six children help solve the mystery of a missing spyglass that has kept two brothers feuding for years.
Author
Series
Boxcar children volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Relates the exploits of the four Alden children as they locate a missing man. The Boxcar children are determined to solve the mystery that surrounds an old yellow house on their grandfather's property. Strange things have happened in that house where long ago a man disappeared.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Formats
Description
Nineteen-year-old returning champion Sean Kendrick competes against Puck Connolly, the first girl ever to ride in the annual Scorpio Races, both trying to keep hold of their dangerous water horses long enough to make it to the finish line.
79) The portal
Author
Series
Tangled in time volume 1
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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
Boxcar children volume 99
Publisher
A. Whitman
Pub. Date
2004.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
The Alden's neighbor, Lina, thinks there's treasure hidden in her attic and she wants the Boxcar Children to help her find it. Of course, the children are eager to help search—but it appears they aren't the only ones looking for the treasure.
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