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81) Scorpia
Author
Series
Alex Rider adventures volume 5
Language
English
Description
After being told that his father was an assassin for a criminal organization, fourteen-year-old Alex goes to Italy to find out more and becomes involved in a plan to kill thousands of English schoolchildren.
82) Intrigues
Author
Series
Publisher
Daw Books
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
When Mags (Magpie), a thirteen-year-old orphan chosen by one of the magical Companion horses of Valdemar and taken to the capital city, she is "recognized" by foreign secret operatives whose purpose is unknown, and then comes under suspicion.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
1629: A newly orphaned young girl named Mayken is bound for the Dutch East Indies on the Batavia, one of the greatest ships of the Dutch Golden Age. Curious and mischievous, Mayken spends the long journey going on misadventures above and below the deck, searching for a mythical monster. But the true monsters might be closer than she thinks. 1989: A lonely boy named Gil is sent to live off the coast of Western Australia among the seasonal fishing community...
84) The killing fog
Author
Series
Grave kingdom volume 1
Publisher
47North
Language
English
Formats
Description
A nobleman, and collector of rare artifacts, has entrusted orphaned Bingmei and a band of mercenaries with a treacherous assignment: brave the wildernesss dangers to retrieve the treasures of a lost palace buried in a glacier valley.
86) Snow like ashes
Author
Series
Snow like ashes trilogy volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Orphaned Meira, a fierce chakram-wielding warrior from the Kingdom of Winter, must struggle to free her people from the tyranny of an opposing kingdom while also protecting her own destiny.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
As three warring fractures try to gain control of the kingdom, orphaned Zephyr, a strategist serving Xin Ren, infiltrates an enemy camp where she encounters the enigmatic Crow, an opposing strategist who might just be her match. The year is 414 of the Xin Dynasty, and chaos abounds. A puppet empress is on the throne. The realm has fractured into three factions and three warlordesses hoping to claim the continent for themselves. But Zephyr knows it’s...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Facing starvation and worse when she is orphaned on her family's 1885 homestead, seventeen-year-old sharpshooter Jessilyn Harney cuts off her hair and disguises herself as a boy to journey across the mountains in search of her outlaw brother.
89) The false prince
Author
Series
Ascendance novels volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the country of Carthya, a devious nobleman engages four orphans in a brutal competition to be selected to impersonate the king's long-missing son in an effort to avoid a civil war.
90) Dark companion
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Brought back to life and orphaned at the age of six, Jane Williams grows up in a series of foster homes and wins a scholarship to the exclusive Birch Grove Academy, where dark secrets abound.
Author
Series
Boxcar children volume 152
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Alden siblings investigate an old building in Silver City where unlucky events keep happening.
92) The reptile room
Author
Series
A series of unfortunate events volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
After narrowly escaping the menacing clutches of the dastardly Count Olaf, the three Baudelaire orphans are taken in by a kindly herpetologist with whom they live happily for an all-too-brief time.
Author
Series
Paper dragons volume 1
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.
94) Paint the wind
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
After her overprotective grandmother has a stroke, Maya, an orphan, leaves her extremely restricted life in California to stay with her mother's family on a remote Wyoming ranch, where she discovers a love of horses and encounters a wild mare that her mother once rode.
Author
Series
Audacity Jones volume 1
Language
English
Formats
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.
96) Pine Island home
Author
Series
Pine Island volume 1
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Orphaned and alone, the four McCready sisters, aged eight to fourteen, move to a house off the coast of British Columbia left them by their great aunt, and get by with the help of neighbors.
97) Enchantée
Author
Series
Enchantee volume 1
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
After smallpox takes their parents, seventeen-year-old Camille supports herself and her sister by magically transforming herself into a baroness in the court at Versailles, then faces difficult choices as the French Revolution looms.
99) Lottery boy
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Language
English
Description
Bully, an orphan living on the streets of London, races to cash in a winning lottery ticket while ruthless hoodlums track him down, desperate for the ticket themselves.
Author
Publisher
Wednesday Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
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Description
Teens Naima Rodriguez, who suffers from obsessive-compulsive disorder and generalized anxiety disorder, and Dew Brickman, who has social anxiety, bond over their mutual loss of both parents.
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