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Author
Series
Boxcar children volume 22
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 3
Description
The Alden children save an old woman's house, land, and all the animals in her animal shelter from greedy contractors.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 8
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Description
1999, Bolivia. Francisco's father is arrested on false charges and sent to prison by a corrupt system. Now Francisco and his young sister must move into prison with their father. There, they find a world unlike anything they've ever known. Prison life is dirty, dire, and dehumanizing. There's only one other option: break up the family and take his sister to their grandparents in the Andean highlands, fleeing the city and the future within his grasp....
Author
Pub. Date
[1970]
Physical Desc
x, 591 p. 22 cm.
Description
From the day of its troubled publication in 1900 to its inclusion in Modern Library's list of Top 100 Novels of the 20th Century, "Sister Carrie" has been a source of controversy and debate. Regarded as the "first masterpiece of the American naturalist movement."
24) Under the radar
Author
Series
Sisterhood series volume 13
Formats
Description
A sister's work is never done, not when there are wrongs to right and underdogs to defend. Just returned to their mountaintop hideaway after their latest successful mission, the seven fearless friends enjoy a celebratory dinner and retire to bed. But within an hour, an alarm sounds, and the ladies rush into the compound in time to see Myra and their mentor, Charles, climbing aboard a helicopter. All that's left is a mysterious note, signed by Charles....
25) Witch & wizard
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 7
Physical Desc
314 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
A sister and brother, along with thousands of young people, have been kidnapped and either thrown in prison or turned up missing after accusations of witchcraft were made against them, and the ruling regime will do anything in order to suppress life and liberty, music and books.
Author
Series
Magic tree house. Original series volume 21
Pub. Date
2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
72 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Description
Jack and Annie are transported by their magic tree house to the time of the Civil War where they meet Clara Barton.
28) Sisters
Author
Pub. Date
c2003, 1984
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 20 cm.
Description
Although two sisters are different in many ways, they are alike too--most importantly, in their love for each other.
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Description
"While camping with her family on a remote island, five-year-old Anna awakes in the night to the sound of her mother screaming. A rogue black bear, 300 pounds of fury, is attacking the family's campsite, pouncing on her parents as prey. At her dying mother's faint urging, Anna manages to get her brother into the family's canoe and paddle away. But when the canoe dumps the two children on the edge of the woods, and the sister and brother must battle...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 9
Formats
Description
Staying with their aunts over the summer, Neil Cady, his sister Bree, and their new friends Wesley and Eric, set out to explore Graylock Hall, an abandoned psychiatric hospital which is supposed to be haunted by the ghost of Nurse Janet.
31) Unleash
Author
Series
Quest for truth volume 3
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
427 pages ; 22 cm.
Description
The Wikk children face fierce lizards and betrayal by a trusted ally when they return to Obbin's plundered planet, where Oliver and Tiffany slip into a high security laboratory and Mason, Austin, and Obbin take on Corsairs.
Author
Series
Boxcar children volume 20
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 2
Description
The Alden children travel on a Mississippi paddle-wheel steamer to visit an old family friend in his cabin near Hannibal, Missouri, and try to discover who is responsible for the mysterious activities near the house.
Author
Series
Boxcar children volume 137
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 2
Formats
Description
When the Aldens visit a university campus, they must solve a mystery involving an old library whose stone gargoyles seem to move on their own.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1998, c1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 26
Physical Desc
508 p. ; 21 cm.
Description
A bestseller in Canada, this riveting family saga takes readers from Cape Breton Island to the battlefields of World War I to New York City's jazz scene--and into the lives, and guilty secrets, of four remarkable sisters.
Author
Series
Ulysses Moore volume 2
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
261 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Description
Eleven-year-old twins Jason and Julia, along with their friend Rick, find themselves in ancient Egypt in search of an important map after going through a magical door in their old English mansion.
Author
Series
Magic tree house. Merlin missions volume 14
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
112 p. : ill.; 22 cm.
Description
Jack and Annie are on a mission to find--and inspire--a musician that brings happiness to millions of people. After traveling to New Orleans, Jack and Annie come head to head with some real ghosts, and discover the world of jazz when they meet a young Louis Armstrong.
Author
Series
Boxcar children volume 69
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 2
Formats
Description
The Aldens investigate when the arrival of several suspicious characters in Greenfield coincides with a mystery involving a popular boy actor.
38) Last day
Author
Description
Years ago, Beth Lathrop and her sister suffered through the kidnapping of their mother and the theft of a famous painting. Detective Conor Reid swore to protect them from then on. When the same family painting is stolen again and Beth is murdered, Beth's husband comes under suspicion and Reid vows to solve the crime.
39) Risk
Author
Series
Quest for truth volume 2
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
402 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Description
"Risk it all! Join Oliver and the Wikk kids as they land the Phoenix on planet Evad and descent into its ancient jungle. Explore the ruins of a now-vanished civilization! Follow Oliver over the top, as he navigates a dizzying ride from the pinnacle of a ziggurat down into an underwater labyrinth! Dive into danger when Mason and Austin decide to go rogue and face the Übel! Will Tiffany and the e-journal help them escape the savage snares of invisible...
40) Palace of lies
Author
Series
Palace chronicles volume 3
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 12
Physical Desc
355 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"After a terrible fire destroys her home and kills her twelve sister-princesses, Desmia must rise above those who intend to manipulate her and sieze power for themselves--and find out the truth"--
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