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Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Although mute, Delia quickly becomes part of the "family" at a most unusual orphanage, where classes include Fairy Tale Studies, a field trip may result in a monster sighting, and classmates include a hedgehog and a boy whose head is an onion.
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Practically-perfect twelve-year-old Victoria Wright must lie, sneak, and break the rules when her investigation of the disappearance of her best--and only--friend, Lawrence, reveals dark secrets about her town and the orphanage run by the reclusive Mrs. Cavendish.
Author
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Amid a war torn land, hidden deep within an enchanted forest, hides an orphanage where miracles abound. It s a magical place built by a resolute king who is determined to defeat an evil sorcerer waging bitter war against his people. Victory just might take a miracle, and so the orphanage may very well hide the key to winning the war.
25) Bird in a box
Author
Pub. Date
2011.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Appears on list
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.
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
In St. Louis, Missouri, in 1911, orphaned eleven-year-old Julia Delaney rails against countless disappointments and the nun's strict rules at the House of Mercy, especially after her sister Mary turns fourteen and must leave, but she, her family, and best friend get tangled up with a gangster and a decade-old mystery.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Kobe Bryant's legacy of uplifting and inspiring young athletes continues in this highly anticipated follow-up to the #1 New York Times bestseller Legacy and the Queen. Legacy Petrin is a national tennis champion, but she doesn't feel like one. At the orphanage where she grew up, far from the city where she learned to shine, Legacy struggles to focus on her training. Her famous magical inner light dims and darkens until she barely recognizes herself....
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
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
Series
Hopi volume 6
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
Primera edición.
Language
Español
Description
"En la casa de té de la señora Bylsma, los tres amigos se han encontrado con un cliente muy especial. Un simpático escritor, con una imaginación inmensa, que resulta ser un antiguo compañero de Salami ¿Se alegrará el profesor de esta visita?"--
Author
Series
Oracles of Delphi Keep volume 3
Pub. Date
[2012]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
In 1940, when Delphi Keep's taken over by the Royal Navy as a communications outpost, Ian, Theo, and Carl dread being evacuated to the earl's winter residence where they'll no longer be protected, but are even more concerned about deciphering the third prophecy and identifying the Secret Keeper.
34) El perro verde
Author
Series
Hopi volume 2
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
Primera edición.
Language
Español
Description
"Un nuevo caso espera a Hopi, Fernando y Balbina. Los tres detectives se han propuesto investigar los robos de las granjas de la zona y la aparición de un misterioso perro verde... ¿Quién está detrás de todo esto? ¿Lo descubrirán entre castigo y castigo?"
35) Wonder show
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
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,...
36) Annie
Author
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"It's a hard-knock life for America's favorite orphan! Everyone knows the story of the irrepressible Annie, who lives at Miss Hannigan's orphanage until she beats the odds and finds a new life with the benevolent and wealthy Daddy Warbucks. Annie has enchanted millions of readers from her original comic strip appearance to the hit Broadway musical. Now, with a Tony-nominated revival playing on Broadway, Puffin is reissuing this novelization of the...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
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...
Author
Series
Oracles of Delphi Keep volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1938, three orphans--Theo, Carl, and Ian, ages ten to thirteen--lead three teachers through a portal that takes them from Dover, England, to Morocco in their quest to locate six silver boxes before the ancient prophecies therein are found by the evil Demogorgon's offspring.
Author
Series
Hopi volume 4
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
Primera edición.
Language
Español
Description
"Balbina ha acabado su nuevo invento: una vaca voladora. Un medio de transporte muy extraño que los llevará... ¡a América! Los tres amigos llegan al poblado de los indios hopi justo a tiempo para ayudarles a resolver un nuevo caso. La Pluma Sagrada del Gran Jefe Kabotie ha desaparecido y solo tienen dos días para encontrarla"--provided by the publisher.
Fernando, Balbina, and Hopi take an unforgettable trip in a mechanical cow built by Balbina....
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First edition.
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. They may have been quarantined on a deserted island for good reason. And somehow--impossible though it...
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