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Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First United States edition.
Physical Desc
245 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"From the internationally best-selling author, a twisted, multi-layered spin on the classic horror novel In the wake of his parents' tragic deaths in a house fire, fourteen-year-old Richard Elauved has been sent to live with his aunt and uncle in the remote, insular town of Ballantyne. Richard quickly earns a reputation as an outcast, and when a classmate named Tom goes missing, everyone suspects the new, angry boy is responsible for his disappearance....
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers Inc
Pub. Date
2015
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 16
Physical Desc
448 pages ; 203 x 135 mm.
Language
English
Description
Game of Thrones meets Graceling in this striking fantasy tale of dark magic, dangerous politics, and discovering your true self. Sara Raasch's debut fantasy is a lightning-fast story of loyalty, love, and controlling one's destiny. Sixteen years ago the Kingdom of Winter was conquered and its citizens enslaved, leaving them without magic or a monarch. The Winterians' only hope for freedom is the eight survivors who managed to escape, and who have...
Author
Series
Seven Sisters volume 8
Publisher
Blue Box Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
540 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
1928, Paris.... A boy is found, moments from death, and taken in by a kindly family. Gentle, precocious, talented, he flourishes in his new home, and the family show him a life he hadn’t dreamed possible. But he refuses to speak a word about who is really is. As he grows into a young man, falling in love and taking classes at the prestigious Conservatoire de Paris, he can almost forget the terrors of his past, or the promise he has vowed to keep....
Author
Series
A Maisie Dobbs novel volume 18
Publisher
Soho Crime
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
x, 342 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
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Description
"London, 1945: Four adolescent orphans with a dark wartime history are squatting in a vacant Belgravia mansion--the owners having fled London under heavy Luftwaffe bombing. Soon after a demobilized British soldier, ill and reeling from his experiences overseas, takes shelter with the group, Maisie Dobbs visits the mansion on behalf of the owners. Maisie is deeply puzzled by the children's reticence. Their stories are evasive and, more mysteriously,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
375 pages ; 22 cm.
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.
Author
Series
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
[2023]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 9
Physical Desc
1 Wonderbook (433 pages) : digital ; 21 cm ; 1 attached digital audio player.
Language
English
Description
Ever since Maria Latif's parents died, she has been shuffled from one relative to the next, each one seeming to count down the days till they could pass her on. And that's how she's ended up in America, where old friends of her parents say they can "give her a better life." But the Clayborne house and even the Claybournes themselves have a few surprises for Maria. The garden in the back of the estate's grounds, for example. No one will talk about...
Author
Series
Publisher
Harlequin Love Inspired
Pub. Date
2015
Physical Desc
283 pages ; 17 cm.
Language
English
Description
"All rancher Luc Cramer's ever wanted is to someday have a family of his own. And from the moment he meets five-year-old orphan Henry, he's determined to give the little boy a home and a father. So the good-looking cowboy enlists his neighbor Holly Janzen to help him with the adoption process. As she spends time with Luc and adorable Henry, she knows she's losing her heart to them. But once Luc finds out Holly's long-held secret, will he still see...
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"1940, England: Evelyne Redfern, known as "The Parisian Orphan" as a child, is working on the line at a munitions factory in wartime London. When Mr. Fletcher, one of her father's old friends, spots Evelyne on a night out, Evelyne finds herself plunged into the world of Prime Minister Winston Churchill's cabinet war rooms. However, shortly after she settles into her new role as a secretary, one of the girls at work is murdered, and Evelyne must use...
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
186 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Told in two voices, two outcasts in an Iron Age village befriend each other, as disabled, orphaned Varick helps Estrild achieve her dream of becoming the first female warrior. Inspired by the Windeby bog body.
Author
Series
Snow Like Ashes volume 2
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First paperback edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 17
Physical Desc
483 pages, 19 pages : map ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
It's been three months since the Winterians were freed and Spring's king, Angra, disappeared--thanks largely to the help of Cordell. Meira just wants her people to be safe. When Cordellan debt forces the Winterians to dig their mines for payment, they unearth something powerful and possibly dangerous: Primoria's lost chasm of magic. Theron sees this find as an opportunity -- with this much magic, the world can finally stand against threats like Angra....
13) Before the Dawn
Author
Series
Home to Heather Creek volume 1
Publisher
Guideposts
Pub. Date
2008.
Physical Desc
280 pages.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Chicken House, an imprint of Scholastic, Inc
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition,
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 6
Physical Desc
193 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Can their words have the power to right the wrongs around them?
Abandoned on the Mumbai railways, Ajay has grown up with nothing but a burning wish to be a journalist. And after finding an abandoned printing press, his dreams might just come true. But when he and his friend Saif, Vinod, Yasmin, and Jai create their own newspaper, The Mumbai Sun, and begin to hunt down stories to fill its pages, the children uncover a plan to tear down their slum--which...
16) Frost Like Night
Author
Series
Snow like ashes volume 3
Publisher
BALZER + BRAY
Pub. Date
2017
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 17
Physical Desc
488 s.
Language
English
Description
Game of Thrones meets Graceling in this action-packed fantasy-the highly anticipated final book in the Snow Like Ashes series by Sara Raasch. Perfect for fans of An Ember in the Ashes and A Court of Thorns and Roses. Angra is alive, his Decay is spreading-and no one is safe. Meira will do anything to save her world. With Angra trying to break through her mental defenses, she desperately needs to learn to control her own magic-so when the leader of...
17) Enchantée
Author
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2019
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 19
Physical Desc
449 p. : maps ; 25 cm.
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.
Author
Publisher
Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 audio media player (22.5 hr.) : digital, HD audio ; 3 3/8 x 2 1/8 in.
Language
English
Description
"Journey into Frances Hodgson Burnett's enchanting and charming tales in this collection of her beloved classics: Little Lord Fauntleroy, A Little Princess, and The Secret Garden."
19) The Skull
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
This is an old story. it is about a girl named Otilla who runs away. It is also about a house in the woods, and a skull who lives there, and a secret the skull has, and the night that Otilla finds out what that secret is.
Award-winning picture book creator Jon Klassen brings his git for storytelling to this spooky adaptation of a traditional Tyrolean folktale.
Author
Publisher
The Dial Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
292 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
""Some years ago, in Dodge, I was a sporting woman. I didn't mind whoring--it can be good work in the right house--but it demands a great deal of keeping still, and I'm one of those itchy, fidgety sorts who's always looking out the window or glancing toward the door, so it was only a matter of time until I had to move on." In the Spring of 1877, Bridget--sixteen years old and already disillusioned after caring for her alcoholic father--is orphaned...