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61) Ripper
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
2012
Description
Adopted by famous Pinkerton Agency Detective Hawking in 1895 New York, fourteen-year-old Carver Young hopes to find his birth father, but when he becomes involved in the pursuit of notorious killer Jack the Ripper, Carver discovers that finding the truthcan be worse than ignorance.
62) Gypsy girl
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
p. cm.
Description
After she is orphaned, seven-year-old Kizzy, who has lived as a Romany, or Gypsy, all her life, must face a small English town's intolerance and find herself a new home and family.
64) Little century
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
515 p. (large print) ; 23 cm.
Description
In the lawless frontier town of Century, Oregon, Esther Chamber is met by her distant cousin, a laconic cattle rancher named Ferris Pickett. But this town on the edge of civilization is in the midst of a very real range in a story of dispossession, greed, and ecstatic visions of America.
65) Troll Mill
Author
Series
Troll trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Eos
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
261 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Description
When fifteen-year-old Peer Ulfsson witnesses the disappearance of his neighbor's wife, rumored to be a seal-woman, he must help protect the baby she leaves behind from trolls, a witch, and other creatures.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
237 pages ; 23 cm
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Description
When his traveling salesman father is murdered in nineteenth-century Pennsylvania, spirited twelve-year-old Thomas Walker forges an unlikely partnership with surly ex-ranger Henry Stands, who embarks on a perilous quest for vengeance.
68) Train I ride
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
181 pages ; 22 cm
Description
Traveling from California to Chicago after her mother dies of a drug overdose and her grandmother of lung cancer, thirteen-year-old Rydr meets other passengers on the train and attempts to accept her own situation.
69) The wide window
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.
70) One false note
Author
Series
The 39 clues. Main series volume 2
Formats
Description
Amy and Dan Cahill's quest to find the million dollars takes them to Vienna, where they must outwit their power-hungry relatives as they seek to solve a clue involving Mozart.
Author
Series
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2012
Description
In a dark future America that has devolved into unending civil wars, orphans Mahlia and Mouse barely escape the war-torn lands of the Drowned Cities, but their fragile safety is soon threatened and Mahlia will have to risk everything if she is to save Mouse, as he once saved her.
Author
Publisher
The Sager Group
Pub. Date
c2020.
Physical Desc
xiii, 394 pages : illustration ; 22 cm
Description
The Orphan's Daughter is a novel about a woman who grows up in the shadow of her charismatic but troubled father, a man shaped by his boyhood in a Depression-era Jewish orphanage. The two life stories are woven together to form the fabric of this funny and suspenseful work of literary fiction. Clyde Aronson survives the cruelties of the orphanage but is left scarred. A popular high-school teacher and a callous womanizer, he fathers two daughters....
73) Heat
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
220 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
Pitching prodigy Michael Arroyo is on the run from social services after being banned from playing Little League baseball because rival coaches doubt he is only twelve years old and he has no parents to offer them proof.
74) Ferals
Author
Series
Ferals volume 1
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
273 pages ; 22 cm
Description
A street kid, whose only friends are crows, saves a girl from a vicious attack only to discover the existence of other wild kids like himself who possess the ability to communicate with animals.
Author
Series
Audacity Jones volume 1
Description
In 1910, Audacity Jones is an eleven-year-old orphan living a monotonous life at Miss Maisie's School for Wayward Girls, and wondering why nothing exciting ever happens--but when the mysterious Commodore Crutchfield whisks her away to Washington D.C., she finds herself involved in a sinister and dangerous plot against the president of the United States.
77) Clockwork angel
Author
Series
Infernal devices volume 1
Description
When sixteen-year-old orphan Tessa Fell's older brother suddenly vanishes, her search for him leads her into Victorian-era London's dangerous supernatural underworld, and when she discovers that she herself is a Downworlder, she must learn to trust the demon-killing Shadowhunters if she ever wants to learn to control her powers and find her brother.
Author
Publisher
Frances Lincoln Children's Books
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
Description
Ahmed, an orphan working long hours with a traveling circus, finds a golden egg in the forest, which hatches into a beautiful girl, and Ahmed must save her from being exploited by the cruel circus owner, Madame Saleem.
79) Once there was
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Formats
Description
When fifteen-year-old Iranian American Marjan discovers her murdered father was secretly a veterinarian to magical creatures, she realizes she must take up his mantle, despite the many dangers.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
218 p. ; 21 cm.
Description
In Victorian England an orphaned boy goes to stay with his strange guardian in a desolate, moated manor house during a cold and snowy Christmas, where he soon realises that the house and its grounds harbor many secrets, dead and alive.
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