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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 12
Description
Tom has spent most of his life locked behind the cruel walls of Weatherly Orphanage, but when he learns that his parents might still be alive, Tom knows he must do what he can to find them. He can't leave Weatherly without his best friend Sarah, so arms with a single clue to his past, the word Britfield, the two make a daring escape by commandeering a hot air balloon. Now they're on the run from a famouse Scotland Yard detective and what looks like...
22) Torn
Author
Series
The missing volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Description
Time travelers Jonah and Katherine arrive in 1611 to rescue missing child John Hudson, son of the explorer Henry Hudson, but just as the mutiny on the Discovery is supposed to start, Jonah and Katherine's knowledge of history is tested once again, and they fear that more is at stake than just one boy's life. Author's note includes facts about Henry Hudson's explorations.
23) Wilder boys
Author
Series
Wilder boys volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Description
To evade their mother's abusive boyfriend, brothers Jake, thirteen, and Taylor, eleven, venture from the suburbs of Pittsburgh toward the wilds of Wyoming in search of the father they have not seen in four years, using their wilderness skills to survive against both natural and human dangers. Includes wilderness tips.
24) Lost cause
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Series
Seven volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 6
Description
Steve travels to Spain and uncovers his late grandfather's invlovement in the Spanish Civil War.
Author
Series
I funny volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Comedian Jamie Grimm, accompanied by Uncle Frank, New Aunt Flora, and friends, circles the globe as host of regional competitions, then competes, himself, in the Planet's Funniest Kid Worldwide contest.
Author
Series
Little blue envelopes volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
Description
Ginny Blackstone spent last summer traveling around Europe, following the tasks her aunt laid out in a series of letters before she died. When someone stole Ginnys backpack, and the last little blue envelope inside, she resigned herself to never knowing how the adventure was supposed to end. Now a mysterious boy has contacted Ginny from London, saying he has found her bag. Finally Ginny can finish what she started. But instead of ending her journey,...
28) The lost kingdom
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 11
Description
On the eve of the French and Indian War, Billy Bartram and his naturalist father travel into the American wilderness in an airship--pursued by a party of French soldiers and haunted by a terrifying bear-wolf--on a quest to find the lost kingdom of the Welsh prince Madoc.
Author
Series
Seven volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
Description
DJ climbs Mount Kilimanjaro to scatter his beloved grandfather's ashes.
31) Wolf brother
Author
Series
Chronicles of ancient darkness volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 8
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Description
6,000 years in the past, twelve-year-old Tarak and his guide, a wolf cub, set out on a dangerous journey to fulfill an oath the boy made to his dying father--to travel to the Mountain of the World Spirit seeking a way to destroy a demon-possessed bear that threatens all the clans.
33) The truth
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Series
Lionboy trilogy volume 3
Formats
Description
At the end of Lionboy: The Chase Charlie Ashanti has restored the lions to their home in the wilds of Morocco and been reunited in the port town of Essaouira with his parents, Magdalen and Aneba. But just as Charlie is beginning to think that his adventures might be over, who should reappear but the nasty lion-tamer Maccomo and the raffish Rafi. Before he knows it, Charlie has been kidnapped once again and is in the hold of a ship bound he knows not...
Author
Series
Chronicles of the Red King volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Description
Timoken has been living in apparent safety at Castle Melyntha with his sister, Zobayda, but when he is betrayed and attacked, he is forced to flee into the forest with his magic camel and the wizard Eri, leaving his sister behind.
35) Shadowfell
Author
Series
Shadowfell volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 16
Description
Fifteen-year-old Neryn is alone in the land of Alban, where the oppressive king has ordered anyone with magical strengths captured. When she sets out for Shadowfell, a training ground for a rebel group, she meets a mysterious soldier and the Good Folk, who tell her that she, alone, can save Alban.
36) The subway mouse
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Remembering childhood stories of a beautiful but dangerous place called Tunnel's End, a mouse named Nib leaves his dirty, crowded home under a busy subway station and sets out on a long journey, joined by Lola, a mouse he meets along the way.
37) Lawn to lawn
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Description
When their human friend, a little girl named Pearl, moves away, four tacky lawn ornaments (a jockey, a deer, a pink flamingo, and a gnome) embark on a dangerous journey to find Pearl. They travel across the country evading gargoyles and garbage trucks to Pearl's new home in a gated community where the group is reunited.
38) The Apprentices
Author
Series
Apothecary series volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 12
Description
"Two years after parting from Benjamin and Janie reunites via magical communication to prevent a global catastrophe"--
Author
Series
Chronicles of the Red King volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 7
Description
Timoken and his sister, Zobayda, under the protection of a forest jinni but pursued by evil virideed, straddle the world of men and the world of enchantments, seeking a home while remaining young by drinking a potion called Alixir.
40) Just One Year
Author
Series
Just one day duet volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 11
Description
"After spending an amazing day and night with a nameless girl in Paris, Willem embarks on his own transformative journey to find her once again"--