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Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
Young readers' edition
Language
English
Description
Molly Ayer has been in foster care since she was eight years old. Most of the time, Molly knows it's her attitude that's the problem, but after being shipped from one family to another, she's had her fair share of adults treating her like an inconvenience. So when Molly's forced to help an elderly woman clean out her attic for community service, Molly is wary. Just another adult to treat her like a troublemaker. But from the very moment they meet,...
82) Genuine fraud
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English
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Told through flashbacks, best friends Jule and Imogen are orphaned outcasts who will do almost anything to attain a happy, wealthy life.
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English
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"In the spring of 1877, Bridget--sixteen years old and already disillusioned after caring for her alcoholic father--is orphaned while crossing the Kansas prairie. She arrives penniless in Dodge City, and, thanks to the allure of her bright red hair and country-girl beauty, is soon recruited to work at the Buffalo Queen, the only brothel in town run by women. Bridget takes to brothel life instantly, appreciating the good food, good pay, and good friendships...
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"A richly compelling and deeply moving novel that traces the converging lives of a young boy who witnesses a brutal murder, the doctor who tends to him, and an elderly woman guarding her long buried past. It seems like just another night shift for Lucy, an overworked ER physician in Providence, Rhode Island, until six-year-old Ben is brought in as the sole survivor from a horrifying crime scene. He's traumatized and wordless; everything he knows has...
Author
Series
Boxcar children volume 152
Language
English
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The Alden siblings investigate an old building in Silver City where unlucky events keep happening.
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Series
Boxcar children volume 7
Language
English
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"On a farm, the Aldens find their oldest mystery yet! Adapted from Gertrude Chandler Warner's story of the same name, this early reader allows children to start reading with a Boxcar Children classic."--
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Series
Rules for vampires volume 1
Language
English
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"After one hundred years of being a vampire, it's time for Eleonore to have her Birthnight...All Leo has to do is hunt down and kill her first prey...After all, who will miss an orphan...But an accidental fire causes more death and destruction...Instead of killing one carefully selected victim, she's created several ghosts from the orphanage residents. And one sinister specter, the Orphanmaster, is poised to terrorize the living residents in a nearby...
89) Tocar la luna
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Series
Publisher
Ediciones la Fragatina
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
1a edición.
Language
Español
Description
The only thing Carlina has ever wanted is to touch the Moon, but she never can, not even when she and the other orphans fly on an airplane, so she is not very happy when the children arrive at a place where people are waiting to adopt them.
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English
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"The word "orphan" might not seem to apply to a fifty-three-year-old woman. Yet this is exactly how Sandra feels as she finds herself motherless, alone like "a glove left behind at the bus station." What just might save her is her search for someone else gone missing: Marie, the black-and-white cat of her friend, Roz, who ran off the day they arrived from Tacoma. As Sandra and Roz scour the streets of San Antonio, posting flyers and asking everywhere,...
92) Endgames
Author
Publisher
Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
After arriving in Atlalus, Blue, who is determined to find Crow and Jack, gets kidnapped by Snow and Red and they set off on an adventure that takes them to the frontlines of the war.
93) The Boxtrolls
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
A community of quirky, mischievous creatures who have lovingly raised an orphaned human boy named Eggs in the amazing cavernous home they've built beneath the streets of Cheesebridge. When the town's villain, Archibald Snatcher, comes up with a plot to get rid of the Boxtrolls, Eggs decides to venture above ground, 'into the light,' where he meets and teams up with fabulously feisty Winnie. Together, they devise a daring plan to save Eggs' family.
"The...
94) Let the sky fall
Author
Series
Sky fall series volume 1
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Ten years after surviving the tornado that killed his parents, Vane Weston, now seventeen, has no memory of that fateful day but dreams of a beautiful girl who, he now learns, is not only real, she is his guardian sylph, who harnesses the power of the wind.
96) The good lie
Publisher
Alcon Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Description
They were known simply as "The Lost Boys." Orphaned by the brutal civil war in Sudan that began in 1983, these young victims traveled as many as a thousand miles on foot in search of safety. Fifteen years later, a humanitarian effort would bring 3,600 lost boys and girls to America.
98) Dark companion
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Language
English
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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.
99) Un mal principio
Author
Series
Series of unfortunate events volume 1
Publisher
Editorial Lumen
Pub. Date
2001
Edition
1. ed.
Language
Español
Description
After the sudden death of their parents, the three Baudelaire children must depend on each other and their wits when it turns out that the distant relative who is appointed their guardian is determined to use any means necessary to get their fortune.
100) Mishiyu
Author
Publisher
Combel Editorial
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
Primera edición.
Language
Español
Description
"Mishiyu is an orphan living in fear of, but also hope for, his adoption. His feelings and his moving story are intertwined with the emotions of the woman who adopts him, and in the end, they recognize each other as mother and son. The theme of adoption is handled with gentle care and consideration in this beautiful, compassionate book"--Amazon.com, viewed June 19, 2015.
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