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Jack Worthington is an upstanding gentleman in Victorian society. He just has one secret-he tells everyone that he has a brother named Earnest, when, in reality, Earnest is his alter ego. This allows him a certain duality; he can go out and party as Earnest, but have a sterling reputation as Jack. However, he must merge the two when Jack discovers that his lover, Gwendolyn, will only marry a man named Earnest. Meanwhile, Algernon, a family friend,...
3) The guardian
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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.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 11.3 - AR Pts: 23
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English
Description
Classic novel of consuming passions, played out against the lonely moors of northern England, recounts the turbulent and tempestuous love story of Cathy and Heathcliff. A masterpiece of imaginative fiction, the story remains as poignant and compelling today as it was when first published in 1847.
5) Moonsilver
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Series
Unicorn's secret volume 1
Publisher
Aladdin Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2001.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Heart, a foundling who was discovered five years earlier wrapped in a unicorn-embroidered blanket, finds a pregnant white mare in the woods and struggles to keep her and her colt safe and well.
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Series
Unicorn's secret volume 2
Publisher
Aladdin Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2001.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When Moonsilver, the unicorn, is nearly killed by a hunter's arrow, Heart sneaks back into her villiage to get help from the healer, Ruth Oakes. Rumors of Moonsilver's secret have reached the ears of Lord Dunraven and once again Heart must flee, with Ruth's mysterious fift, a silver thread, to protect her and Moonsilver.
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Rock Harbor series volume 5
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English
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A mysterious crying in the night leads a woman to an abandoned baby. Against objections from her husband, she takes in the baby and every thing she thought she knew about her life is turned upside down.
9) True heart
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Series
Publisher
Aladdin Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2003.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
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English
Description
With his unicorn characteristics disguised beneath the beautiful armor created by Joseph Lequire, Moonsilver accompanies Heart on the journey to the place where Lord Irmaedith's men have taken the gypsies.
10) Castle Avamir
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Series
Publisher
Aladdin Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2003.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
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English
Description
After a long hard winter spent with the gypsies, Heart and Moonsilver go in search of her home, Castle Avamir, whose directions are "higher than the clouds, deep in a valley, under the stars, and over the moon."
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Presents Henry Fielding's 1749 comic novel in which Tom Jones, abandoned as an infant, is adopted by Squire Allworthy and amuses himself with amorous escapades until the day he decides to leave home and seek his fortune and real identity. Includes an introduction, a chronology, a glossary, explanatory notes, and an appendix on Fielding's revisions.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 6
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English
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Ten-year-old Solomon Snow, a foundling who was discovered with a distinctive silver spoon in his mouth, sets out to find his parents and receives help along the way from an aspiring writer, a precocious young circus performer, and several orphans.
13) Silas Marner
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.7 - AR Pts: 14
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English
Description
A miser finds redemption through caring for an abandoned child.
Author
Series
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2002.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
To protect her gypsy friends, Heart and her unicorns leave them to continue their search for the place shown in Lord Dunraven's book whose symbols match those on Heart's foundling blanket.
15) Summer's child
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English
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Early on the morning of her eleventh birthday, on the beach beside her North Carolina home, Daria Cato receives an unbelievable gift from the sea, an abandoned newborn baby. When the infant's identity cannot be uncovered, she is adopted by Daria's loving family. But her silent secrets continue to haunt Daria. Now, twenty years later, Shelly has grown into an unusual, ethereal young woman whom Daria continues to protect. But when Rory Taylor, a friend...
16) The unwilling
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Barrier lands volume 1
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English
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"The Unwilling is the story of Judah, a foundling born with a special gift and raised inside Highfall castle along with Gavin, the son and heir to Lord Elban's vast empire. Judah and Gavin share an unnatural bond that is both the key to her survival -- and possibly her undoing. As Gavin is groomed for his future role, Judah comes to realize that she has no real position within the kingdom, in fact, no hope at all of ever traveling beyond its castle...
17) Dead silence
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Foundlings volume 2
Language
English
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An investigative genealogist and a NYPD detective find their work intertwining in the case of a mute child.
Author
Series
Tales of beauty and madness volume 1
Publisher
Razorbill
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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Description
Raised in luxury as the pampered, adopted heiress of Enrico Vultusino, godfather of the Seven -- the powerful Families that rule magic-ridden New Haven -- Camille knows that she is not really Family. Unlike them, she is a mortal with a past that lies buried in trauma. Then she meets the mysterious Tor and begins to uncover the secrets of her birth ... to find out where she comes from and why her past is threatening her now.
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Apple Creek dreams volume 1
Language
English
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Jerusha Springer has spent months making the most beautiful quilt anyone in Apple Creek, Ohio, has ever seen, and she knows it's going to take first prize at the Quilt Fair in Dalton. The prize will be her ticket out of the Amish way of life-- away from the memories of her dead daughter and her tormented husband. But on the way to the Fair, the driver crashes their car, and Jerusha finds there is a greater prize to be won than money and blue ribbons....
20) The road home
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Apple Creek dreams volume 2
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English
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Jenny Springer is the local historian for the Amish community in Apple Creek, Ohio. As a child, Jenny was rescued from a terrible snowstorm, and when no trace of her parents could be found, the Springer family adopted her. Since then she has had a burning desire in her heart to find out who she really is. When a drifter, John Hershberger, comes to town looking for his own roots, Jenny gets serious in her search for her long-lost parents. As she opens...
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