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1) The BFG
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English
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Kidsnatched from her orphange by a BFG (Big Friendly Giant), who spends his life blowing happy dreams to children, Sophie concocts with him a plan to save the world from nine other man-gobbling cannybull giants.
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Monsters of Rookhaven volume 1
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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.
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English
Description
Nobody Owens, known as Bod, is a normal boy. He would be completely normal if he didn't live in a graveyard, being raised by ghosts, with a guardian who belongs to neither the world of the living nor the dead. There are adventures in the graveyard for a boy--an ancient Indigo Man, a gateway to the abandoned city of ghouls, the strange and terrible Sleer. But if Bod leaves the graveyard, he will be in danger from the man Jack--who has already killed...
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"In the little town of Blackbird Tree live two orphan girls: one Naomi Deane, brimming with curiosity, and her best friend, Lizzie Scatterding, who could talk the ears off a cornfield. Naomi has a knack for being around when trouble happens. For she knows all the peculiar people in town--like Crazy Cora and Witch Wiggins and Mr. Farley. But then, one day, a boy drops out of a tree. The strangely charming Finn boy. Then the Dingle Dangle man appears,...
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Series
Giver quartet volume 2
Language
English
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Description
Lame and suddenly orphaned, Kira is mysteriously removed from her squalid village to live in the palatial Council Edifice, where she is expected to use her gifts as a weaver to do the bidding of the all-powerful Guardians.
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Austin family books volume 1
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English
Description
The life of the Austin family is changed by the arrival of self-centered young Maggy Hamilton, orphaned by the sudden death of her pilot father.
8) Lucy's wish
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Series
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English
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Ten-year-old Lucy, an orphan who wants a little sister more than anything, finds a very special one in the less than perfect family which she joins.
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Edge chronicles. Original series volume 5
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English
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Rook Barkwater, one of the apprentices chosen to make a dangerous journey to study in the Deepwoods, joins the sky pirate Captain Twig in opposing the Guardians of the Night and learns more about his own past.
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Atheneum Books for Young Readers
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English
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Rather than be split up into different foster homes, twelve-year-old Basil and his eleven-year-old sister Dahlia leap off a train which jump starts an adventure of ever-increasing mishaps and lands them in the kitchen of a cruel celebrity chef.
12) Daddy-Long-Legs
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English
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All sorts of things begin to happen when an orphaned boarding school student finally meets the wealthy guardian with whom she has corresponded for years sight unseen.
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Series
Rules for vampires volume 1
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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"After one hundred years of being a vampire, it's time for Eleonora 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...
14) Miracle's boys
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Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Lafayette's close relationship with his older brother Charlie changes after Charlie is released from a detention home and blames Lafayette for the death of their mother.
15) Circle of love
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Series
Orphan Train adventures volume 7
Language
English
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Nineteen-year-old Frances Mary Kelly, herself an orphan train rider six years before, returns to New York and agrees to escort a group of orphans west to find new homes.
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Bhinian Empire volume 1
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English
Description
"Nisha lives in the City of a Thousand Dolls, a remote estate where orphan girls in the Empire become apprentices as musicians, healers, and courtesans, her closest companions the mysterious cats that trail her shadow. When girls begin to die, Nisha begins to uncover the secrets that surround the deaths--jeopardizing not only her own future within the City but her own life"--Provided by publisher.
17) Madeline
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Series
Madeline (Ludwig Bemelmans) volume 1
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English
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Madeline, smallest and naughtiest of the twelve little charges of Miss Clavel, wakes up one night with an attack of appendicitis.
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Orphans of the tide volume 1
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
When a mysterious boy washes in with the tide trapped inside the belly of a whale, Ellie must prove that he isn't ruled by the Enemy even if it means revealing her own dangerous secret.
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Life has been cruel yet quiet for orphaned, twelve-year-old Stub, but now, charged with ferrying a tiny wizard, Orlen, to the country's capital, Maradon Cross, to protect the queendom, her life is suddenly filled with adventure.
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English
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Red doesn't remember who she is or where she came from. In fact, her only memory is a terrifying, repeating dream of a threatening shadow and a foggy field. But after many years, she wonders if that's just something she made up. Red does know that she now belongs with Yakaka, the witch who rescued Red when she was a little girl. Full of power and magic, Yakaka travels the world, healing the planet when it calls for her help. Yakaka carries Red between...
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