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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
Learning that her grandmother was a victim of the corrupt Tennessee Children's Home Society, attorney and aspiring politician Avery Stafford delves into her family's past and begins to wonder if some things are best kept secret.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
Remembering childhood stories her grandfather once told her, young physician Natalia becomes convinced that he spent his last days searching for "the deathless man," a vagabond who claimed to be immortal. As Natalia struggles to understand why her grandfather, a deeply rational man would go on such a farfetched journey, she stumbles across a clue that leads her to the extraordinary story of the tiger's wife.
Struggling to understand why her beloved...
Author
Series
Merriwell sisters volume 3
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Waiting for her own happily-ever-after, Miss Venus Merriwell, who works at an orphanage in Covent Garden, meets her match in gambler Galahad Sinclair who bought the empty building next door they desperately need.
Publisher
Covenant Communications, Inc
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
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Description
Experience the journey of Rose, an orphan who teaches the meaning of hope to all those around her. Share a slice of Christmas sweetened with friendship in this poignant story based on a classic holiday tale.
Author
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Formats
Description
Ellen Marie Wiseman, acclaimed author of What She Left Behind and The Life She Was Given, weaves the
stories of two very different women into a page-turning novel as suspenseful as it is poignant, set amid one of
history's deadliest pandemics. In the fall of 1918, thirteen-year-old German immigrant Pia Lange longs to be far from Philadelphia's overcrowded
streets and slums, and from the anti-German sentiment that compelled her father to enlist in...
8) Nightchaser
Author
Series
Nightchaser novels volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Captain Tess Bailey and her crew are on the run from a dangerous tyrant, and their best hope for help is a tall, dark and much-too-appealing stranger, Shade Ganavan.
Author
Series
When hope calls volume 2
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"With more children on their way from England who need caring homes, Lillian and Grace Walsh must use every ounce of gumption to keep their mission alive. But when startling information about the past surfaces and a new arrival comes via suspicious circumstances, they'll have to decided what is worth fighting for and what is better left in God's hands"--
Author
Series
Windham brides volume 2
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Former army captain turned titled gentleman Colin MacHugh fights to keep his bachelorhood safe from the marriage-minded debutantes until he meets Miss Anwen Windham who needs his help in raising money for the local orphanage.
12) Unfailing love
Author
Series
When hope calls volume 3
Publisher
Bethany House Publishers, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
When children go missing from the children's home, Lillian Walsh and Grace Bennet will do all they can to find them. With the future of the children's home in question and everyone struggling to determine their paths forward, they all begin to realize that sometimes loving well means making difficult choices.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Rising War Office star Mycroft Holmes persuades his brother, Sherlock, to volunteer at a friend's orphanage, where the suspicious death of a street urchin and a mysterious Chinese woman lead the brothers into the London opium trade's dark underside.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Covering everything from how to blend in with suspicious normals to the most popular time loops to visit as a temporal tourist, this essential volume is ideal for anyone curious about the world of Miss Peregrine: its strange history, curious practices, fascinating places, most famous (and infamous) names, and much more. Written in Miss Peregrine's inimitable style, it's also a dramatic expansion of the universe fans have already come to love, introducing...
17) The Night Raven
Author
Series
Moonwind mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Amazon Crossing Kids
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
It's 1880, and in the frigid city of Stockholm, death lurks around every corner. Twelve-year-old Mika knows that everyone in her orphanage will struggle to survive this winter. But at least the notorious serial killer the Night Raven is finally off the streets...or is he?
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2018
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
It's 1941, and tensions are rising in the United States as the Second World War rages in Europe. Eleven-year-old Gusta's father, a foreign-born labor organizer, has had to flee the country, and Gusta has been sent to live in an orphanage run by her grandmother. As Gusta gets to know the rambunctious orphans at the home, she feels like an outsider at her new school and finds herself facing patriotism turned to prejudice.
Author
Series
Moonwind mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Amazon Crossing Kids
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
In 1880 Stockholm, as the city awaits the arrival of the first ship to have sailed the Northeast Passage, 12-year-old Mika is approached by Constable Hoff about thefts around the city and vows to uncover who’s really behind the crimes to keep her fellow orphans safe.
20) Annie Live!
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Annie, the beloved seven-time Tony Award-winning Broadway sensation, comes to life like never before in a live musical event that follows smart and spirited little orphan Annie, whose whole life changes when larger-than-life billionaire Daddy Warbucks takes her away from an orphanage run by the mean Miss Hannigan.
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