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81) Table for five
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A car accident unites two strangers to raise three orphaned children in this romantic, tragicomic classic by a #1 New York Times–bestselling author.
Lily Robinson and Sean McGuire have nothing in common. She guards her independent lifestyle with a ferocity that hides a fear of love and the pain it can bring. He's always been a rolling stone, making his own way. But with the sudden deaths of a couple close to them both, the two become joined in...
82) Looking for home
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Orphans' journey volume 1
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"With his mother dead, his father gone, and his older brothers and sisters unable to help, eight-year-old Ethan Cooper knows it's his responsibility to keep him and his younger siblings together--even if that means going to an orphanage. Ethan, Alice, Simon, and Will settle into the Briarlane Christian Children's Home, where there
83) The raffle baby
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2022
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154 pages ; 21 cm
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"Teeny, Sonny Boy and Vic have been swallowed up by the desperation and devastation of the Great Depression, but as they navigate the ravages of poverty and prejudices, the trio forms a family bond as strong as the forces against them. On the road, they see the scars of inhumanity everywhere, but they are buoyed by the fantastical tales Teeny weaves around campfires in hobo jungles and migrant camps. With Teeny's words embracing them their subsistence...
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"Bestselling author Mitch Albom returns to nonfiction for the first time in more than a decade in this poignant memoir that celebrates Chika, a young Haitian orphan whose short life would forever change his heart. Chika Jeune was born three days before the devastating earthquake that decimated Haiti in 2010. She spent her infancy in a landscape of extreme poverty, and when her mother died giving birth to a baby brother, Chika was brought to The Have...
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Boxcar children volume 44
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IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 3
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When the Aldens go to the Pickering Natural History Museum to assist with the opening of a dinosaur exhibit, their work is hampered by a series of mysterious happenings.
87) The agency
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Norwood nanny chronicles volume 1
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[2022]
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x, 349 pages ; 23 cm.
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When American orphan, Bree, arrives at Norwood College--the elite English training ground of nannies to the world's rich and powerful--she knows that making it through the first year to land a spot in the coveted certificate program is the key to her future. She also knows she can't go it alone, bonding quickly with her groupmates: an errant (and broke) nobleman, son of one of England's oldest families; the ambitious and whip-smart daughter of a self-made...
88) Gallant
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IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 10
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Olivia Prior has grown up in Merilance School for girls, and all she has of her past is her mother's journal--which seems to unravel into madness. Then, a letter invites Olivia to come home--to Gallant. Yet when Olivia arrives, no one is expecting her. But Olivia is not about to leave the first place that feels like home, it doesn't matter if her cousin Matthew is hostile or if she sees half-formed ghouls haunting the hallways. Olivia knows that Gallant...
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Rules for vampires volume 1
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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 in a nearby...
90) A stitch in time
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2018.
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IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 5
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167 pages ; 22 cm
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In 1927 Vermont, eleven-year-old Donut, recently orphaned after the death of her beloved pops, stands to lose everything when she learns her Aunt Agnes plans to move her to Boston, but little does her aunt know that Donut has no intentions of leaving her friends or her home.
91) Lucy's wish
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Orphan Train children volume 1
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1998
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IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 2
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116 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.
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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.
92) Iron house
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IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 18
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At the Iron Mountain Home for Boys, there was nothing but time. Time to burn and time to kill, time for two young orphans to learn that life isn't won without a fight. Julian survives only because his older brother, Michael, is fearless and fiercely protective. When tensions boil over and a boy is brutally killed, there is only one sacrifice left for Michael to make: He flees the orphanage and takes the blame with him. For two decades, Michael has...
93) Scorpia rising
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Alex Rider adventures volume 9
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IL: MG+ - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 16
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Alex Rider must once again do battle against the terrorist organization responsible for the death of his parents--Scorpia--when their plot in the Middle East poses a threat to humanity, but this time around the risks are bigger and Alex will not walk away so easily.
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Adventures of Benny and Watch volume 1
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1998
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IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
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1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 23 cm.
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Four orphaned children make a home for themselves in an abandoned boxcar and are united with their grandfather.
95) Coal river
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"An historical novel that explores one young woman's determination to put an end to child labor in a Pennsylvania mining town"--
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A TIMELESS MASTERPIECE FOR THE GENERATIONS
This timeless masterpiece, teeming with colorful characters, unexpected plot twists, and Dickens' vivid rendering of the vast tapestry of mid-Victorian England, Great Expectations is considered by many to be Dickens' finest novel. It continues to enthrall new generations of readers
Dickens tells the story of humble, orphaned Philip Pirrip (Pip), the book's narrator, who is taken under the wing of the reclusive,...
97) The inheritance
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Secrets of the Shetlands volume 1
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[2016]
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428 pages : map, genealogical table ; 22 cm.
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"Despite her business success in Washington, DC, a woman troubled by questions about her roots and identity receives a surprising letter from a solicitor's firm; meanwhile, the death of a clan patriarch in Scotland's Shetland Islands paralyzes the economy of an entire community"--
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"Oil baron Nick Duncan swore off entanglements of the heart after his wife's and son's untimely death. So when Talia Barton introduces him to his orphaned daughter from a grief-fueled fling, he knows he's in trouble. Talia won't let the motherless child she's been caring for become a ward of the state. But she never expects the handsome Texan to propose marriage..."-- Page [4] of cover.
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Boxcar children volume 8
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IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 2
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A mysterious woman, a dog barking every night at midnight, and a puzzling note in the sand all add up to a mysterious summer in a lighthouse.
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