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Pub. Date
2023
Language
Español
Description
Las brujas se rigen por tres normas irrompibles: esconde tu magia, mantén la cabeza gacha y aléjate del resto de brujas. Por eso, Mika Moon está acostumbrada a estar sola, pero todo cambia cuando le llega un mensaje inesperado rogándole que viaje a Nowhere House, una mansión misteriosa, para enseñar a tres niñas a controlar sus poderes. Al romper todas las reglas y aceptar el desafío, Mika descubrirá en los confines de Nowhere House secretos...
2) Welcome Home
Author
Publisher
North Star Editions
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Welcome Home collects a number of adoption-themed fictional short stories, and brings them together in one anthology from a diverse range of celebrated Young Adult authors. The all-star roster includes Edgar-award winner Mindy McGinnis, New York Times best-selling authors C.J. Redwine (The Shadow Queen) and William Ritter (Jackaby), and acclaimed YA authors across all genres. The full list of contributors includes: Adi Alsaid, Karen Akins, Erica M....
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Series
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First American edition.
Language
English
Description
Training as a Silhouette, an apprentice to the immortals, 12-year-old orphan Yeung Zhi Ging gets a chance to prove her worth when an evil spirit called Fui Gwai returns, giving her the opportunity to use her newfound powers to save her friends and the world beyond.
Author
Series
A series of unfortunate events volume 11
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2004.
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
Still pursued by the evil Count Olaf, the Baudelaire orphans attempt to reach a very important VFD meeting, but first they must travel in a rattletrap submarine to the Gorgonian Grotto, a dangerous underwater cave, in search of the sugar bowl.
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Language
English
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Frances Hodgson Burnett’s tale of a young girl’s journey to realize that kindness and generosity can see you through the hardest of times
Sara Crewe had a perfect life. Her father, Captain Crewe, was wealthy and sure to become even wealthier on future expeditions. Before departing on his next voyage, he leaves Sara at the Miss Minchin Select Seminary for Young Ladies. There, Sara is treated like royalty. But when
...Sara Crewe had a perfect life. Her father, Captain Crewe, was wealthy and sure to become even wealthier on future expeditions. Before departing on his next voyage, he leaves Sara at the Miss Minchin Select Seminary for Young Ladies. There, Sara is treated like royalty. But when
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Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
In 1943, 14-year-old Massimo, rescued by a mysterious man called Pietro Houdini who preserves the treasures within the Benedictine abbey's wall, accompanies him on a World War II art-heist adventure where they lie, cheat, steal, fight, kill and sin to survive, while smuggling Renaissance masterpieces they've rescued from the "safe keeping" of the Germans.
Publisher
SDS
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
The third and final season of Philip Pullman's His Dark Material trilogy returns with an adaptation of the final book in the best-loved book series, The Amber Spyglass. Season Three opens with Lyra unconscious, having been given a sleeping draught by her mother, as Will, still carrying the Subtle Knife, continues his quest to find her in this epic story of love and truth.
11) Quiet No More
Author
Series
Quiet you carry volume 2
Publisher
North Star Editions
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
After surviving sexual assault by her father and six months in foster care, college freshman Victoria Parker is trying to move on with her life. She’s focusing on the positives—attending college, living on her own, repairing old relationships and making new ones, and getting involved with an abuse survivors' activist group on campus. But everything’s thrown into disarray when a strange woman shows up, claiming to be Victoria’s aunt and asking...
12) The invocations
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Language
English
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Description
"Zara Jones believes in magic because the alternative is too painful to consider—that her murdered sister is gone forever and there is nothing she can do about it. Rather than grieving and moving on, Zara decides she will do whatever it takes to claw her sister back from the grave—even trading in the occult. Jude Wolf may be the daughter of a billionaire, but she is also undeniably cursed. After a deal with a demon went horribly wrong, her soul...
Author
Series
Publisher
Morgan James Publishing
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
With the Shenandoah Valley Railroad now operational and the American Civil War lingering in recent memory, narrator Billy Washita sets his heart on finding the secret to his past.
Along with his friend, Rascal, Billy follows where the railroad leads. Along the way, the two fatherless wanderers encounter five more orphans, each with their own stories of abandonment. Together, their uncertain hope for adoption means facing fears, suffering unrequited...
Author
Series
Publisher
Orca Book Publishers
Pub. Date
2022
Language
Français
Description
Ethan vit dans une famille d'accueil et s'efforce de rester dans le droit chemin. Enrlé dans un programme de photographie pour jeunes, il se trouve menacé à plusieurs reprises par quelqu'un qui veut s'emparer de son appareil photo. Que sait Ethan? Pour quelles images quelqu'un serait-il prêt à tuer? Ethan tente de résoudre le mystère tout en évitant les ennuis. Il découvre qu'il a toutes les réponses. Il ne lui reste plus qu'à découvrir...
15) Jacob's Landing
Author
Publisher
Nimbus
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Coping with the recent death of his father, twelve-year-old Jacob Mosher is sent to spend the summer with his aging, estranged (and strange!) grandparents in rural Newport Landing, Nova Scotia. Reluctantly, he trades the security of his foster mum in "Upper Canada" for a blind grandfather, Frank, who dresses like a sea captain and conducts flag-raising ceremonies, and a quirky grandmother, Pearl, who sometimes forgets her dentures and has Jacob running...
Author
Publisher
Peachtree Publishers
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
How do you face life without a place to call home?
Award-winning author Adrian Fogelin follows up her critically acclaimed novel Crossing Jordan with the story of a young girl’s trials and triumphs as she tries to find a home.
With warmth and humor, Fogelin has created a memorable character in Anna, who must deal with the loss of her family and adjust to living in a foster home. Feeling abandoned
...Award-winning author Adrian Fogelin follows up her critically acclaimed novel Crossing Jordan with the story of a young girl’s trials and triumphs as she tries to find a home.
With warmth and humor, Fogelin has created a memorable character in Anna, who must deal with the loss of her family and adjust to living in a foster home. Feeling abandoned
Author
Series
Publisher
Open Road Media Teen & Tween
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Gib might have finally found the family he’s always wanted. Will he be adopted for good?
No child wants an extended stay in the Lovell House Home for Orphaned and Abandoned Boys. And in the sequel to Gib Rides Home, Gib, a smart, resourceful eleven-year-old orphan, returns to the Thornton family’s ranch, hoping for a much happier experience this time. Instead of the farm labor that most orphans his age
18) The Kin
Author
Publisher
Open Road Media Teen & Tween
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Four children embark on a quest for a new land at the dawn of human history
Africa, two hundred thousand years ago: Suth and Noli were orphaned the night the murderous strangers came, speaking an unfamiliar language and bringing violence to the peaceful Moonhawk tribe.
Determined not to die in the desert, Suth and Noli slip away with Ko and Mana. Suth, the eldest, leads them; Noli’s dreams of the future
...Africa, two hundred thousand years ago: Suth and Noli were orphaned the night the murderous strangers came, speaking an unfamiliar language and bringing violence to the peaceful Moonhawk tribe.
Determined not to die in the desert, Suth and Noli slip away with Ko and Mana. Suth, the eldest, leads them; Noli’s dreams of the future
Author
Publisher
Open Road Media Young Readers
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
A Dog of Flanders is an 1872 novel by English author Marie Louise de la Ramée published with her pseudonym "Ouida". It is about a Flemish boy named Nello and his dog, Patrasche, and is set in Antwerp. In Japan, Korea, Russia and the Philippines, the novel has been an extremely popular children's classic for decades and has been adapted into several Japanese films and anime.[1] Since the 1980s, the Belgian board of tourism caught on to the phenomenon...
Author
Publisher
Open Road Media Teen & Tween
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
It’s one thing to be interested in history—it’s another to thing to make it
Andrew Tillet is just looking out for a younger classmate when he gets pulled into a heroic scheme—a mission to return an abducted boy to his heartbroken mother. Andrew and his friend Christopher carry out their mission perfectly, but Andrew has curious mixed feelings about several details.
The next day, he’s
...Andrew Tillet is just looking out for a younger classmate when he gets pulled into a heroic scheme—a mission to return an abducted boy to his heartbroken mother. Andrew and his friend Christopher carry out their mission perfectly, but Andrew has curious mixed feelings about several details.
The next day, he’s
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