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21) Jane
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
373 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
In this contemporary retelling of "Jane Eyre," an orphaned nanny becomes entranced with her magnetic and brooding employer, a rock star with a torturous secret from his past.
22) Raising Lumie
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2020.
Formats
Description
Newly orphaned and living with the half sister she hardly knows, twelve-year-old Olive rediscovers her hope when she starts training a guide dog puppy.
23) Mystery ranch
Author
Series
Boxcar children volume 4
Formats
Description
The Alden children head to their aunt's ranch for the summer and make an amazing discovery! Adapted from Gertrude Chandler Warner's story of the same name, this early reader allows children to start reading with a Boxcar Children classic.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
409 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
Nineteen-year-old returning champion Sean Kendrick competes against Puck Connolly, the first girl ever to ride in the annual Scorpio Races, both trying to keep hold of their dangerous water horses long enough to make it to the finish line.
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
"In 1859, eleven-year-old Nell goes to live with her aunt, Kate Warne, the first female detective for Pinkerton's National Detective Agency. Nell helps her aunt solve cases, including a mystery surrounding Abraham Lincoln, and the mystery of what happened to Nell's own father" --
Author
Series
Monsters of Rookhaven volume 1
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
319 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Description
When two orphans break through the magic shield that is keeping an extraordinary family of monsters safe from those who would do them harm, they are all put in grave danger.
29) Enchanted glass
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
292 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
After his grandfather dies, Andrew Hope inherits a house and surrounding land in an English village, but things become very complicated when young orphan Aidan shows up and suddenly a host of variously magical townsfolk and interlopers start intruding on their lives.
30) Defy the stars
Author
Series
Constellation trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
503 pages ; 22 cm
Description
Teenaged soldier Noemi and an enemy robot, Abel, who is programmed to obey her commands, set out on an interstellar quest to save her home planet, Earth colony Genesis.
Author
Series
Boxcar children volume 33
Formats
Description
The Boxcar Children are helping out at a pizzeria. The pizzeria is run by their old friends the Piccolos, whove been having lots of troubles keeping their business going. Working at the little restaurant is so much fun, but the children wonder . . . is someone deliberately trying to shut down Piccolos Pizzeria?
32) Superstar Watch
Author
Series
Boxcar children volume 121
Formats
Description
The Alden children stumble upon a mystery when they enter their dog, Watch, in a contest that could lead to fame and fortune, but where things keep going wrong.
Author
Series
A series of unfortunate events volume 6
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2001
Physical Desc
259 p. : ill. ; 18 cm.
Description
The woeful saga of the Baudelaire orphans continues as evil Count Olaf discovers their whereabouts at Esme Squalor's seventy-one bedroom penthouse and concocts a new plan for stealing their family fortune.
Author
Series
Boxcar children volume 8
Formats
Description
The children, who are spending the summer in a lighthouse on the New England coast, are disturbed by a mysterious woman walking the lighthouse grounds. Jessie's dog Watch wakes up growling almost every evening at midnight, and Henry finds a puzzling note in the sand.
Author
Series
Formats
Description
Fifteen-year-old Miss Penelope Lumley, a recent graduate of the Swanburne Academy for Poor Bright Females, is hired as governess to three young children who have been raised by wolves and must teach them to behave in a civilized manner quickly, in preparation for a Christmas ball.
36) Bouncing back
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
296 pages ; 21 cm
Description
Orphaned thirteen year-old Carlos learns what it truly means to be a teammate when he must help save his new wheelchair basketball team's gym from destruction.
Author
Series
Wishes and Wellingtons volume 1
Formats
Description
Maeve Merritt, chafing against the rigid rules of her London boarding school, finds her life transformed by the genie she happens upon--and by those who want to steal him.
38) Game over
Author
Series
Daniel X volume 4
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
229 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
In Tokyo, fifteen-year-old Daniel X faces two of the most dangerous aliens on the planet, who are plotting to use video games to control children and turn them into an army of doom.
Author
Series
Wilma Tenderfoot volume 3
Publisher
Puffin Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
351, 16 pages ; 20 cm.
Description
Amateur detective Wilma Tenderfoot and her dog Pickle find a key that will supposedly lead to a treasure guarded by a dangerous ghost.
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