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2) Ruby Holler
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Description
Thirteen-year-old fraternal twins Dallas and Florida have grown up in a terrible orphanage but their lives change forever when an eccentric but sweet older couple invites them each on an adventure, beginning in an almost magical place called Ruby Holler.
Author
Series
A series of unfortunate events volume 3
Publisher
HarperTrophy
Pub. Date
2000
Physical Desc
214 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
Description
Catastrophes and misfortune continue to plague the Baudelaire orphans after they're sent to live with fearful Aunt Josephine who offers little protection against Count Olaf's treachery.
Publisher
Picture This! Home Video
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approx. 90 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In a Stalinist indoctrination camp for orphans after World War II, young Lem fixates on a mysterious older boy, then lashes out when he sees him being affectionate with the female camp leader.
Author
Publisher
Joanna Cotler Books
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
226 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Description
Traces the parallel stories of estranged Irish sisters Sybil and Nula and American orphans Naomi and Lizzie, whose respective explorations into their identities and struggles with misfortune are told in rotating voices.
Author
Series
Shadow House volume 2
Formats
Description
Poppy, Marcus, Dash, Dylan, and Azumi are trapped inside of Larkspur House, a sinister estate haunted by the ghosts of the orphaned children who have gone before, and the house is using their fears and secrets to pick them off one by one--because nobody gets out of the shadow house alive.
10) The BFG
Author
Description
Kidsnatched from her orphanage by a BFG (Big Friendly Giant), who spends his life blowing happy dreams to children, Sophie concocts with him a plan to save the world from nine other man-gobbling cannybull giants.
11) Station Jim
Publisher
BFS Video
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
1 DVD (87 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A young man working in a train station befriends a dog that can do amazing tricks. When the Queen of England is set to visit the station, an assassination attempt is put on her. Will the most unlikely of characters save the day?
12) The false prince
Author
Series
Ascendance novels volume 1
Formats
Description
In the country of Carthya, a devious nobleman engages four orphans in a brutal competition to be selected to impersonate the king's long-missing son in an effort to avoid a civil war.
13) Ballet shoes
Publisher
Distributed by Koch Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (84 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Three girls adopted by an explorer are raised as sisters by his niece. As each of the girls have their own dreams, they learn that in order to realize them, they must also keep their family together.
14) Oliver Twist
Author
Series
Description
Deals with the adventures of a young orphan boy trying to survive amid greed and poverty in 19th-century London.
Author
Series
Ivy Pocket volume 1
Publisher
Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
382 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Description
"Fate intervenes when Ivy is called to the sickbed of a dying duchess and is charged with delivering a mystical (and possibly cursed) diamond necklace to the utterly revolting Matilda Butterfield for her twelfth birthday"--
Publisher
Rekab Sudskany, L.C
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 101 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"Tomás world changes when Maire O'Donnell brings him home from an Irish orphanage. She shows him all the love this world has to offer but when tragedy jeopardizes the adoption, Tomás must use lessons learned from Maire to win the heart of his potential father"--Container.
17) Fireborne
Author
Series
Aurelian cycle volume 1
Description
"Two dragonriders must go head-to-head for the top position in the Callipolan fleet, and protect the new regime from those who lost power"--
18) Pollyanna
Publisher
Walt Disney
Pub. Date
c1960
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (ca. 134 min.) : sd., col., stereo. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A young orphan brings sunshine into the lives of everyone she meets with her optimistic outlook on life.
19) Orphan Island
Author
Publisher
Walden Pond Press, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
269 pages : illustration ; 22 cm
Description
On an island where one child is delivered each year while the eldest is taken away, nine children live under the leadership of new elder Jinny, who trains the latest newcomer and wonders what will happen when her own departure occurs.
20) The good lie
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray (120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
They were known simply as "The Lost Boys." Orphaned by the brutal civil war in Sudan that began in 1983, these young victims traveled as many as a thousand miles on foot in search of safety. Fifteen years later, a humanitarian effort would bring 3,600 lost boys and girls to America.
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