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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
"Two families, generations apart, are forever changed by a heartbreaking injustice in this poignant novel, inspired by a true story, for readers of Orphan Train and The Nightingale. Memphis, 1939. Twelve-year-old Rill Foss and her four younger siblings live a magical life aboard their family's Mississippi River shantyboat. But when their father must rush their mother to the hospital one stormy night, Rill is left in charge--until strangers arrive...
2) 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
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A magical island. A dangerous task. A burning secret. Linus Baker leads a quiet, solitary life. At forty, he lives in a tiny house with a devious cat and his old records. As a Case Worker at the Department in Charge Of Magical Youth, he spends his days overseeing the well-being of children in government-sanctioned orphanages. When Linus is unexpectedly summoned by Extremely Upper Management he's given a curious and highly classified assignment: travel...
4) Hollow City
Author
Series
Publisher
Quirk Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
In 1940, Jacob and his new friends escape from Miss Peregrine's island and travel to London where they encounter new allies, a menagerie of peculiar animals, and other unexpected surprises.
Author
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"In the fall of 1918, thirteen-year-old German immigrant Pia Lange longs to be far from Philadelphia's overcrowded streets and slums, and from the anti-German sentiment that compelled her father to enlist in the U.S. Army, hoping to prove his loyalty. But an even more urgent threat has arrived. Spanish influenza is spreading through the city. Soon, dead and dying are everywhere. With no food at home, Pia must venture out in search of supplies, leaving...
Author
Publisher
Titan Books
Pub. Date
2018
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Rising War Office star Mycroft Holmes persuades his brother, Sherlock, to volunteer at a friend's orphanage, where the suspicious death of a street urchin and a mysterious Chinese woman lead the brothers into the London opium trade's dark underside.
Author
Series
When hope calls volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
"So much has been accomplished. Lillian Walsh has stepped out courageously beyond what she'd ever dreamed of being able to achieve. She and her newly rediscovered sister, Grace, have settled three children from England into new Canadian homes and are prepared to place two more just after the New Year, when it happens--another painful disruption. A white lie the sisters used to protect some orphans has resulted in an official complaint and a letter...
Author
Publisher
Quirk Books
Pub. Date
c2014
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 15
Physical Desc
399 pages : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Having escaped Miss Peregrine's island by the skin of their teeth, Jacob and his new friends must journey to London, the "peculiar" capital of the world.
10) Unlimited
Author
Publisher
B & H Publishing Group
Pub. Date
c2013
Physical Desc
xiii, 304 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Simon Orwell is a brilliant student whose life has taken a series of wrong turns. At the point of giving up on his dreams, he gets a call from an old professor who has discovered a breakthrough in a device that would create unlimited energy. But before Simon meets up with him, the professor has been killed.
Author
Series
Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children volume 5
Publisher
DUTTON Books
Pub. Date
2020
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Now, with enemies behind him and the unknown ahead, Jacob Portman's story continues as he takes a brave leap forward into The Conference of the Birds, the next installment of the beloved, bestselling Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children series.
Author
Publisher
Milton Hershey School
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
32 p. : col. ill., photos ; 24 cm x 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
The story of the founding and growth of the Milton Hershey School over one hundred years as witnessed by an oak tree. Contains facts about oak trees and biographical information about Milton and Catherine Hershey.
Author
Publisher
Yen Press
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
A horrific family tragedy sets sixteen-year-old Jacob on a journey to a remote island off the coast of Wales, where he discovers the crumbling ruins of Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children. As Jacob explores its abandoned bedrooms and hallways, it becomes clear that the children were more than just peculiar. They may have been dangerous.
Publisher
Western Pennsylvania Genealogical Society
Pub. Date
1999
Physical Desc
62 p.
Language
English
Description
Compiled by Diane Ragan. Based on the material contained in the book Pennsylvania's soldiers' orphan schools: Giving a brief account of the origin of the late Civil War, the rise and progress of the orphan system...with names of pupils subjoined by James Laughery Paul. Published: 1876.
16) Unfailing love
Author
Series
When hope calls volume 3
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Lillian Walsh and Grace Bennett have learned so much already about caring for children in distress. It hasn't been easy, but it becomes even more difficult when they suddenly discover that three children have run away. Concerned for the trio's safety, the sisters will do all they can to find the children. But the runaways are not the only thing putting the future of the children's home in question. Lillian is faced with choosing between her dreams...
Author
Series
Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children volume 1
Publisher
Quirk Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
A horrific family tragedy sends sixteen-year-old Jacob journeying to a remote island off the coast of Wales, where he discovers the crumbling ruins of an old orphanage that was home to children who were more than just peculiar, but possibly dangerous--and who may still be alive. Illustrated with vintage found photographs.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2019
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 14
Physical Desc
388 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Janusz Korczak was more than a good doctor. He was a hero. The Dr. Spock of his day, he established orphanages run on his principle of honoring children and shared his ideas with the public in books and on the radio. He famously said that "children are not the people of tomorrow, but people today." Korczak was a man ahead of his time, whose work ultimately became the basis for the U.N. Declaration of the Rights of the Child.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 13
Physical Desc
435 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"It's 1941, and tensions are rising in the United States as the Second World War rages in Europe. Eleven-year-old Gusta's life, like the world around her, is about to change. Her father, a foreign-born labor organizer, has had to flee the country, and Gusta has been sent to live in an orphanage run by her grandmother. Nearsighted, snaggletoothed Gusta arrives in Springdale, Maine, lugging her one precious possession: a beloved old French horn, her...