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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 2
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English
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"Henry, Jessie, Violet, and Benny are brothers and sisters. They're orphans too, and the only way they can stay together is to make it on their own. When the children find an abandoned boxcar in the woods, they decide to call it home - and become the Boxcar Children!" --
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 3
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English
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"The Aldens spend the summer on Grandfather's island! Joe, the island's friendly handyman, helps them with anything they need, but as the children continue to explore their summer home, they realize there is more to the island--and to their new friend--than meets the eye."--Publisher's description.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
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Years ago, a man disappeared from the yellow house on Surprise Island. Why? The Aldens have found a clue to the mystery! Adapted from Gertrude Chandler Warner's story of the same name, this new version introduces young readers to a Boxcar Children classic.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
The Alden children head to their aunt's ranch for the summer and make an amazing discovery! Adapted from Gertrude Chandler Warner's story of the same name, this early reader allows children to start reading with a Boxcar Children classic.
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
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What will the Aldens discover on a vacation to a beautiful island in the South Seas? The island is supposed to be deserted, but as the Aldens explore, they start to find signs that they suggest they are not alone.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
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"People say nothing interesting happens in the village of Port Elizabeth but, on a visit there, the Boxcar Children find a big mystery at the schoolhouse. Adapted from Gertrude Chandler Warner's story of the same name, this early reader allows children to start reading by themselves with a Boxcar Children classic."--Amazon.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
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"The Boxcar Children are helping at a pizzeria, but it seems that someone is trying to shut it down. Can they find out who is causing trouble? Adapted from Gertrude Chandler Warner's story of the same name, this early reader allows children to start reading by themselves with a Boxcar Children classic."--Amazon.
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Series
Publisher
Silver Moon Press
Pub. Date
1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
During the summer of 1776, ten-year-old Peggy discovers a wounded soldier in the woods near her Brooklyn farm, and is convinced that his sketchbook contains the secret notes of a Hessian spy.
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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In 1904, twelve-year-old Orphelia follows her dream by running away from home to join an all-black minstrel show headed for the Saint Louis World's Fair, and learns about her family's troubled past in the process.
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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In 1724, twelve-year-old Rachel and her friend Sally discover a pirates' hiding place on a deserted island near Charles Town, South Carolina, and they suspect it may be connected to the woman who will soon become Rachel's stepmother.
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Publisher
Aladdin Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2002, c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Robert "Qwerty" Stevens uses the time machine he finds in his back yard to visit Thomas Edison's workshop in 1879, and there helps develop the electric light bulb, but then needs his sister's help to return to his own time.
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Series
Boxcar children volume 88
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
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The Aldens are helping the museum curator set up an exhibit about life in ancient Egypt, but the longer they are around the exhibit's mummy, the more things go wrong.
19) Pale Phoenix
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English
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Miranda isn't happy when sullen orphan Abby Chandler comes to live with her family. But Miranda's anger turns to shock when she learns the girl's horrible secret: Abby's parents and sisters were killed in a house fire in this very town--more than three hundred years ago. Somehow Abby survived the fire and has been living in a virtual limbo ever since.
Fifteen-year-old Miranda Browne, the extraordinary protagonist from Kathryn Reiss's first novel,...
20) Dreadful Sorry
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Series
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English
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Seventeen-year-old Molly's recurrent nightmares become waking visions after she nearly drowns at a party. Soon she's witnessing events through the eyes of a girl who lived in her father's house nearly a century before.