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Author
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
The #1 New York Times best-selling series.
Bonus features:
• Sneak preview of the third Peculiar Children novel
• Exclusive Q&A with Ransom Riggs
• Never-before-seen peculiar photography
Like its predecessor, this second novel in the Peculiar Children series blends thrilling fantasy with vintage photography to create a one-of-a-kind reading experience.
September 3,...
Bonus features:
• Sneak preview of the third Peculiar Children novel
• Exclusive Q&A with Ransom Riggs
• Never-before-seen peculiar photography
Like its predecessor, this second novel in the Peculiar Children series blends thrilling fantasy with vintage photography to create a one-of-a-kind reading experience.
September 3,...
Author
Series
Lexile measure
HL 750L
Language
English
Formats
Description
With his dying words, H entrusts Jacob with a mission: Deliver newly-contacted peculiar Noor Pradesh to an operative known only as V. Noor is being hunted. She is the subject of an ancient prophecy, one that foretells a looming apocalypse. With only a few bewildering clues to follow, Jacob must figure out how to find V, the most enigmatic, and most powerful, of Abe's former associates. But V is in hiding and she never, ever, wants to be found.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
375 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In all the years that Elinora Gassbeek has been matron of the Little Tulip Orphanage, not once have the Rules for Baby Abandonment been broken. Until the autumn of 1880, when five babies are left in outrageous circumstances; one in a tin toolbox, one in a coal bucket, one in a picnic hamper, one in a wheat sack, and finally, one in a coffin-shaped basket. Those babies were Lotta, Egg, Fenna, Sem, and Milou. And although their cruel matron might think...
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Lexile measure
900L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Nine-year-old Nicholas Benedict, an orphan afflicted with an unfortunate nose and with narcolepsy, is sent to a new orphanage where he encounters vicious bullies, selfish adults, strange circumstances, and a mystery that could change his life forever.
Author
Publisher
Granity Studios
Pub. Date
[2019]
Lexile measure
820L
Physical Desc
197 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In a world where tennis can unlock ancient magic, Legacy enters a tennis tournament organized by Queen Silla in order to raise enough money to save her father's orphanage.
GAME. SET. MAGIC. Game - Tennis means life and death for the residents of the magical kingdom of Nova, and for twelve-year-old Legacy, it's the only thing getting her through the long days taking care of the other kids at the orphanage. That's all about to change when she hears...
Author
Series
Lexile measure
720L
Language
English
Formats
Description
When she hears the story about the screaming bridge, where a busload of orphans were killed fifty years before, sixteen-year-old Emma Donovan and her friends decide to investigate the abandoned orphanage and the bridge--and that is the beginning of a terrifying night for Emma.
8) The jinx
Author
Series
Misfit's life for me volume I
Publisher
Spellbound, an imprint of Magic Wagon
Pub. Date
[2021]
Lexile measure
500L
Physical Desc
48 pages : color illustrations ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Elizabeth is tired of being mistreated in her orphanage, so she runs away and hides in a ship's cargo hold. But when the ship sets sail, two crewmen discover her during a storm. They think she's a jinx! What will become of Elizabeth now?" -- Back cover.
Author
Series
Robyn Hood volume 1
Publisher
Spellbound, an imprint of Magic Wagon
Pub. Date
[2019]
Lexile measure
590L
Physical Desc
48 pages : color illustrations ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
Master thief Robyn Hood must discover who is taking money from a local orphanage before the kids' fates are put in danger.
11) Thornhill
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First American edition.
Lexile measure
730L
Physical Desc
533 pages : black and white illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Parallel plotlines set in different times, one told in text and one in art, inform each other as a young girl unravels the mystery of a ghost next door"--
1982: Mary is a lonely orphan at the Thornhill Institute For Children at the very moment that it's shutting its doors. When her few friends are all adopted or re-homed and she's left to face a volatile bully alone, her revenge will have a lasting effect on the bully, on Mary, and on Thornhill...
12) The wonderling
Author
Series
Wonderling volume 1
Lexile measure
820L
Description
In this extraordinary debut novel with its deft nod to Dickensian heroes and rogues, Mira Bart©đk tells the story of Arthur, a shy, fox-like groundling with only one ear and a desperate desire to belong, as he seeks his destiny.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First American edition.
Lexile measure
770L
Physical Desc
243 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
When the Philippine government takes over Culion, an island for people with leprosy, Ami is put in an orphanage on another island, where she finds a friend willing to help her return before her mother dies.
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
790L
Physical Desc
292 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
When unrest hits the streets of Havana, Cuba, Julian's parents must make the heartbreaking decision to send him and his two brothers away to Miami via the Pedro Pan operation. But when the boys get to Miami, they are thrust into a world where bullies seem to run rampant and it's not always clear how best to protect themselves.
15) The Night Raven
Author
Series
Publisher
Amazon Crossing Kids
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
680L
Physical Desc
181 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
It's 1880, and in the frigid city of Stockholm, death lurks around every corner. Twelve-year-old Mika knows that everyone in her orphanage will struggle to survive this winter. But at least the notorious serial killer the Night Raven is finally off the streets...or is he?
16) Wild orphan
Author
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
135 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In late 1920s Missouri, when hard times force her mother to take a night job, eleven-year-old Lizbeth is placed in an orphanage, where her loneliness and worry are eased by a new, if difficult, friendship.
Author
Series
Publisher
Amazon Crossing Kids
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
195 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
After a merciless winter, spring has sprung in 1880 Stockholm, and the city awaits the arrival of the SS Vega, the first ship to have sailed the Northeast Passage. Life is busy at the orphanage, but twelve-year-old Mika quickly notices that the older orphans are up to something--and it doesn't look good. When Constable Hoff approaches her with information about thefts around the city, Mika becomes even more concerned about what the other kids are...
18) Bird in a box
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
670L
Physical Desc
278 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1936, three children meet at the Mercy Home for Negro Orphans in New York State, and while not all three are orphans, they are all dealing with grief and loss which together, along with the help of a sympathetic staff member and the boxing matches of Joe Louis, they manage to overcome. Includes author's notes.
19) Wonder show
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Lexile measure
830L
Physical Desc
viii, 274 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, step inside Mosco's Traveling Wonder Show, a menagerie of human curiosities and misfits guaranteed to astound and amaze! But perhaps the strangest act of Mosco's display is Portia Remini, a normal among the freaks, on the run from McGreavy's Home for Wayward Girls, where Mister watches and waits. He said he would always find Portia, that she could never leave. Free at last, Portia begins a new life on the bally,...
20) Orphan eleven
Author
Publisher
Wendy Lamb Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
640L
Physical Desc
306 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1939, after cruel treatment at her orphanage renders her mute, Lucy runs away and joins the circus, working with the elephants and unaware that the orphanage matrons are hunting for her.