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Author
Series
A series of unfortunate events volume 7
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2001
Physical Desc
256 p. : ill. ; 18 cm.
Description
Under a new government program based on the saying "It takes a village to raise a child," the Baudelaire orphans are adopted by an entire town, with disastrous results.
Author
Series
A series of unfortunate events volume 8
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2001
Physical Desc
255 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
Description
On the run after being falsely accused of murder, the three Baudelaire orphans find themselves in the Heimlich Hospital, with the evil Count Olaf in close pursuit.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
1997
Physical Desc
[39] p. : col. ill. ; 27 x 29 cm.
Description
A thirteen-year-old Jewish orphan reluctantly leaves her grandmother and immigrates to New York City, where she works for three years sewing lace and earning money to bring Grandmother to the United States, too.
4) Beck
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
261 pages, 5 unnumbered pages ; 23 cm
Description
Orphaned as a child and sent to live among religious caretakers in Canada, Beck endures harsh labor and searches for love while traveling back and forth across the American border during the height of the Great Depression.
Author
Series
Madeline (Ludwig Bemelmans) volume 2
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Description
A hound rescues a schoolgirl from the Seine, becomes a beloved school pet, is chased away by the trustees, and returns with a surprise.
Author
Series
Maids of honor volume 1
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
406 p.
Description
In 1559 England, Meg, an orphaned thief, is pressed into service and trained as a member of the Maids of Honor, Queen Elizabeth I's secret all-female guard, but her loyalty is tested when she falls in love with a Spanish courtier who may be a threat.
Author
Series
Daniel X volume 1
Publisher
Little, Brown and Co
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
238, 18, 9 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
Fifteen-year-old Daniel has followed in his parents' footsteps as the Alien Hunter, exterminating beings on The List of Alien Outlaws on Terra Firma, but when he faces his first of the top ten outlaws, the very existence of Earth and another planet are at stake.
Author
Series
A series of unfortunate events volume 5
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2000
Physical Desc
221 p. : ill ; 19 cm.
Description
As their outrageous misfortune continues, the Baudelaire orphans are shipped off to a miserable boarding school, where they befriend the two Quagmire triplets and find that they have been followed by the dreaded Count Olaf.
9) The BFG
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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.
10) Anne of Avonlea
Author
Series
Anne of Green Gables volume 2
Description
Anne returns to Avonlea to teach in her former school and discovers the pleasures and puzzles of growing up.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
179 pages ; 23 cm
Description
In 1911, when orphaned ten-year-old Inge comes to live with her stern grandmother in a remote island village in Bornholm, Denmark, she ends up changing the climate of the town, bringing joy and laughter to her grandmother's life and finding a new family for herself to help assuage her grief over losing her mother.
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"The heroes of Cloud Cuckoo Land are children trying to figure out the world around them, and to survive. In the besieged city of Constantinople in 1453, in a public library in Lakeport, Idaho, today, and on a spaceship bound for a distant exoplanet decades from now, an ancient text provides solace and the most profound human connection to characters in peril. They all learn the story of Aethon, who longs to be turned into a bird so that he can fly...
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