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Author
Language
English
Description
The sole survivor of a brutal family massacre twenty years earlier, Kars McIntyre, when the person believed to be responsible for the killings is released, wonders how many times she can be the girl who survived as people around her die horrible deaths.
All her life, she's been the girl who survived. Orphaned at age seven after a horrific killing spree at her family's Oregon cabin, Kara McIntyre is still searching for some kind of normal. But now,...
6) The guardian
Author
Series
Home to Hickory Hollow volume 3
Language
English
Description
After schoolteacher Jodi Winfield finds a little girl on the side of the road, she delves into the isolated community of the Lancaster Old Order Amish to find answers.
7) Iron house
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
Two decades after a pair of orphaned brothers are separated when one of them flees after a murder accusation, the runaway brother, now a seasoned killer, returns to North Carolina to protect his brother and solve the mystery of their past.
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
272 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Summer, 1943. The King and Queen choose to send their youngest daughter, Princess Charlotte, to live with a noble family in the country. Despite her headstrong nature, the princess's fragile health poses far too great a risk for her to remain in war-torn London. She arrives in Yorkshire under an alias; only her guardians know her true identity. Charlotte befriends a young evacuee, trains with her cherished horse-- and falls deeply in love with her...
10) The wide window
Author
Series
Series of unfortunate events volume 3
Publisher
HarperTrophy
Pub. Date
2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
214 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
Catastrophes and misfortune continue to plague the Baudelaire orphans after they're sent to live with fearful Aunt Josephine who offers little protection against Count Olaf's treachery.
Author
Series
Series of unfortunate events volume 6
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 7
Physical Desc
259 p.: ill.; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
The woeful saga of the Baudelaire orphans continues as evil Count Olaf discovers their whereabouts at Esme Squalor's seventy-one bedroom penthouse and concocts a new plan for stealing their family fortune.
12) With you always
Author
Series
Publisher
Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Physical Desc
359 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When a financial crisis in 1850s New York leaves three orphaned sisters nearly destitute, the oldest, Elise Neumann, knows she must take action. She's had experience as a seamstress, and the New York Children's Aid Society has established a special service: placing out seamstresses and trade girls. Even though Elise doesn't want to leave her sisters for a job in Illinois, she realizes this may be their last chance. The son of one of New York City's...
13) Madeline
Publisher
Tri Star
Pub. Date
1998
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 89 min.) sd., col.; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Madeline is using her considerable skills for trouble making and problem lloving to try to save her school from being sold.
15) Nellie's promise
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Nellie and her sisters are about to be adopted by Samantha's family when her Uncle Mike shows up and threatens to ruin everything.
17) Coal River
Author
Language
English
Description
"In this vibrant new historical novel, the acclaimed author of The Plum Tree and What She Left Behind explores one young woman's determination to put an end to child labor in a Pennsylvania mining town... As a child, Emma Malloy left isolated Coal River, Pennsylvania, vowing never to return. Now, orphaned and penniless at nineteen, she accepts a train ticket from her aunt and uncle and travels back to the rough-hewn community. Treated like a servant...
Author
Series
Series of unfortunate events volume 5
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2000
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 6
Physical Desc
221 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
As their outrageous misfortune continues, the Baudelaire orphans are shipped off to a miserable boarding school, where they befriend the two Quagmire triplets and find that they have been followed by the dreaded Count Olaf.
19) The vile village
Author
Series
Series of unfortunate events volume 7
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 7
Physical Desc
256 p. : ill. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
Under a new government program based on the saying "It takes a village to raise a child," the Baudelaire orphans are adopted by an entire town, with disastrous results.
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Physical Desc
243 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
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 Faith Haiti Orphanage that Albom operates in Port Au Prince. With no children of their own, the forty-plus children who live, play, and go to school at the orphanage have become family to Mitch and his wife, Janine....