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Boxcar children volume 137
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When the Aldens visit a university campus, they must solve a mystery involving an old library whose stone gargoyles seem to move on their own.
Author
Series
Boxcar children volume 7
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The Boxcar Children visit the old farmhouse where Grandfather and Aunt Jane grew up! But people in the nearby town seem to think something isn't quite right about the house. As the Boxcar Children investigate, they start to uncover secrets about the farm's past―dating all the way back to the Revolutionary War!
83) Darkwood
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
273 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
A clever and fearless orphan endures increasing danger while trying to escape from greedy, lawless men and elude the terrifying "kinderstalks"--animals who steal children--before discovering her true destiny.
85) Endgames
Author
Series
NewsPrints volume 2
Publisher
Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
205 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Description
After arriving in Atlalus, Blue, who is determined to find Crow and Jack, gets kidnapped by Snow and Red and they set off on an adventure that takes them to the frontlines of the war.
86) Tiger's curse
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Publisher
Splinter
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
402 pages ; 24 cm.
Description
Seventeen-year-old Oregon teenager Kelsey forms a bond with a circus tiger who's actually one of two brothers, Indian princes Ren and Kishan, who were cursed to live as tigers for eternity, and she travels with him to India where the tiger's curse may be broken once and for all.
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Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
386 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
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Taken in by a poor family in a rural village after the death of her father, Sunflower bonds with the family's only child, Bronze, who has not spoken since being traumatized by a terrible fire.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2010, ©1998
Physical Desc
202 p. : ill., maps, photos (black & white) ; 20 cm.
Description
In her diary in 1912, thirteen-year-old Margaret Ann describes how she leaves her lonely life in a London orphanage to become a companion to a wealthy American woman, sails on the Titanic, and experiences its sinking.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
©2013.
Physical Desc
215 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Description
Eleven-year-old Carly Bean Bitters, an orphan, can only sleep during the day and feels very lonely until she meets a rat, Lewis, and sets off on an adventure to figure out what is threatening the woods and its inhabitants.
Author
Publisher
Listening Library
Pub. Date
p1992
Physical Desc
6 CDs (7 hrs. 15 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The boxcar children: Four orphaned siblings set up house in an abandoned boxcar because they think their grandfather is mean; but they realize he is nice and they move into his house and live happily ever after.
Surprise Island: The Alden children spend living on their grandfather's island.
The yellow house mystery: The Alden children determine to solve the mystery that surrounds an old yellow house on their grandfather's property. Strange things...
Author
Series
Unforgettable Logan Foster volume 2
Pub. Date
[2023]
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Twelve-year-old orphan Logan and his superhero friends embark on an adventure to stop the evil supervillain Necros and find the true identity of Logan's birth mom.
Author
Series
Boxcar children volume 138
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"During auditions for the show 'Pop Star Sensation' at the local mall, one of the judges, a famous pop star, disappears, and the Aldens must find out where she went."
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Children's Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
201 pages ; 22 cm
Description
At Brassmere Academy for the Extraordinary, twelve-year-old Plum and her best friends share adventures in dreams each night, but when Artem disappears they discover alarming secrets about Brassmere and its intentions.
Author
Series
Magic misfits volume 1
Description
"Six young magicians and illusionists team up to save their small town from a crooked carnival owner and his goons"--
Author
Series
Young samurai volume 1
Publisher
Disney/Hyperion Books
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
359 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
Orphaned by a ninja pirate attack off the coast of Japan in 1611, twelve-year-old English lad Jack Fletcher is determined to prove himself, despite the bullying of fellow students, when the legendary sword master who rescued him begins training him as a samurai warrior.
96) City of illusion
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
256 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Description
After saving their beloved mechanized city of Oskars, Hannah and Ever team up with new friends to try to save both Oskars and the nearby city of Alexios from the evil assassin Vash.
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Eleven-year-old Danny Monteverde believes in magic, he believes that the enchanted land of Rio Luna in his older sister's favorite book is real, and most of all he believes that if he can find the way to Rio Luna he will find his sister Pili there, because he does not believe that his sister would run away from the group home where they lived and leave him behind; but after years of being passed from one foster family to another his faith begins to...
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, Harper Alley
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
254 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 21 cm
Description
Twin homeless orphans Elliot and Liza take part in the Raven Quests--magical tasks that when completed promise the victors untold riches--but when a quest goes terribly wrong and Liza is poisoned, Elliot sacrifices everything to find the cure.
Author
Series
Boxcar children volume 140
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"The Aldens are on a special vacation up north to see the Calgary Stampede -- a cowboy celebration of Canada's frontier spirit! There's a parade through the streets of Calgary, a spectacular stage show, and plenty of fun things to do. But behind the scenes at the festival, an important piece of jewelry goes missing. Can the Boxcar Children find the thief before the big show is ruined?".
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