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Boxcar children volume 154
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When the Alden siblings go to Camp Survival to learn all about living in nature, they must find their own way when their guide leaves them alone on a trail.
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Pub. Date
2023.
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Estrild is not like the other girls in her village; she wants to be a warrior. Varick, the orphan boy who helps her train in spite of his twisted back, also stands apart. In a world where differences are poorly tolerated, just how much danger are they in? Inspired by the true discovery of the 2,000-year-old Windeby bog body in Northern Germany, Newbery Medalist and master storyteller Lois Lowry transports readers to an Iron age world as she breathes...
83) Vespers rising
Series
The 39 clues. Main series volume 11
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
238 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Description
Fourteen-year-old Amy Cahill and her younger brother Dan thought they could return to their regular lives when they found the 39 clues. But the Vespers, powerful enemies, will stop at nothing to get the clues. And with the Vespers rising, the world is in jeopardy.
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Nancy Drew mystery stories volume 9
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
1968.
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176 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
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While solving the mystery of an old man's disappearing fortune, Nancy ends a family feud and reveals the identity of an orphan of unknown parentage
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Sky fall series volume 2
Publisher
Simon Pulse, an imprint of Simon & Schuster's Children's Publishing Division
Pub. Date
2016.
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381 pages ; 22 cm.
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While teenaged Vane discovers more of what it means to be a windwalker and his guardian sylph Audra struggles with her deepest desires, both must band together to face greater challenges than they have ever known.
88) Liesl & Po
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Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
307 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Description
A mix-up involving the greatest magic in the world has tremendous consequences for Liesl, an orphan who has been locked in an attic, Will, an alchemist's runaway apprentice, and Po, a ghost, as they are pursued by friend and foe while making an important journey.
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Everyone in Emma's family is special. Her ancestors include Revolutionary War spies, brilliant scientists, and famous musicians--every single one of which learned of their extraordinary destiny through a dream.
For Emma, her own dream can't come soon enough. Right before her mother died, Emma promised that she'd do whatever it took to fulfill her destiny, and she doesn't want to let her mother down.
But when Emma's dream finally arrives, it points...
90) Cécile's gift
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Publisher
American Girl
Pub. Date
c2011
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85 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 23 cm.
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Cécile Rey, spending the summer volunteering with her friend Marie-Grace Gardner at a nearby orphanage, forms a special bond with a young girl named Perrine and decides to try and raise money for the children by helping in a huge benefit.
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Series
Boxcar children volume 145
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When Cousin Alice runs for mayor, the Aldens help out her campaign and investigate when one of her opponents uses sneaky tricks to win the race.
95) Vespers Rising
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The 39 clues. Main series volume 11
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The Cahills aren't the only family searching for the Clues. . . .The Cahills thought they were the most powerful family the world had ever known. They thought they were the only ones who knew about Gideon Cahill and his Clues. The Cahills were wrong. Powerful enemies -the Vespers- have been waiting in the shadows. Now it's their time to rise and the world will never be the same. In Vespers Rising, a brand new 39 Clues novel, bestselling authors Rick...
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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...
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Series
Wilma Tenderfoot volume 1
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
335 p. ; 20 cm.
Description
Wilma Tenderfoot, a ten-year-old orphan who lives at Cooper Island's Lowside Institute for Woeful Children, dreams of escape and of becoming the apprentice of the world-famous detective Theodore P. Goodman, whose every case she follows devotedly in the newspaper.
98) Counting by 7s
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Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2013©2013
Physical Desc
380 pages, ; 22 cm
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Twelve-year-old genius and outsider Willow Chance must figure out how to connect with other people and find a surrogate family for herself after her parents are killed in a car accident.
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Series
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
285 p. : col. ill. 22 cm.
Description
Twelve-year-old Lillian, an orphan who loves roaming the woods looking for fairies when her chores are done, is bitten by a deadly snake and saved through the magical forest creatures in this expansion on the author's and illustrator's previous work, A circle of cats.
100) La elefanta del mago
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El mayor deseo del huérfano Peter Augustus Duchene, a sus 10 años, es encontrar a su hermanita Adele. Se pregunta si aún estará viva. Antes de iniciar la búsqueda decide consultar a una adivina, de quien recibe un misterioso consejo: «Tienes que seguir a la elefanta». ¿Increíble" Tal vez, pero cierto.
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