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61) The night house
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....
62) Quicksilver
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Quinn Quicksilver was born a mystery--abandoned at three days old on a desert highway in Arizona. Raised in an orphanage, never knowing his parents, Quinn had a happy if unexceptional life. Until the day of 'strange magnetism.' It compelled him to drive out to the middle of nowhere. It helped him find a coin worth a lot of money. And it practically saved his life when two government agents showed up in the diner in pursuit of him. Now Quinn is on...
Author
Publisher
Soft Skull
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
194 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
After arriving at a private school, a young orphan finds that his classmates are hostile and violent and that the Headmaster is trying to get him to make some sort of confession, but when the orphan discovers a dark secret about the school, bodies start to appear.
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First United States edition.
Physical Desc
356 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Taught to hunt, shoot, and survive in the remote wilds of a ravaged land by the man who adopted her after finding her wandering in the woods as a young child, Elka reflects on the catastrophic events that destroyed civilization more than a century earlier before gradually realizing that her father may be a serial killer.
Author
Publisher
Green Place Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
332 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"When the body of Alison Goss washes up on Menhaden Island, in the Gulf of Maine, the working-class fishing community of hard-hewn ways and salty perspectives is faced with handling the future of her unusual son, Faron. They soon discover how different he is, in strange but endearing ways, including his fascination with moths and his stunning artistic talent. Bound together by weather and sea, Menhaden neighbors with good hearts and blunt opinions...
66) Gib rides home
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 9
Physical Desc
246 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Despite the harsh treatment he has endured at the Lovell House orphanage, ten-year-old Gib Whittaker manages to maintain his hopeful outlook when he is "farmed out" to help with the horses of a wealthy banker in 1908.
68) The Nowhere Man
Author
Series
orphan X volume 2
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
Spoken about only in whispers, it is said that when the Nowhere Man is reached by the truly desperate, he can and will do anything to save them. Evan Smoak is the Nowhere Man. Taken from a group home at twelve, Evan was raised and trained as part of the Orphan program, an off-the-books operation designed to create deniable intelligence assets. Evan was Orphan X. He broke with the program, using everything he learned to disappear and reinvent himself...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
"Penobscot Indian Molly Ayer is close to 'aging out' out of the foster care system. A community service position helping an elderly woman clean out her home is the only thing keeping Molly out of juvie and worse.... As she helps Vivian sort through her possessions and memories, Molly learns that she and Vivian aren't as different as they seem to be. A young Irish immigrant orphaned in New York City, Vivian was put on a train to the Midwest with hundreds...
Author
Publisher
Tin House Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First US edition.
Physical Desc
226 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
William Tyce, who wishes to create a reference volume specific to his existence, takes a river journey to discover how his mother died and find reasons for his father's disappearance.
74) Snow Like Ashes
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...
75) Hounded
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Carpenter gets a mysterious phone call from a good friend, policeman Pete Stanton, asking him to drop everything, drive to an unfamiliar address, and bring his girlfriend, Laurie Collins. Pete has just discovered the body of ex-convict Danny Diza. Upstairs are Danny's now orphaned eight-year-old son and basset hound. And that, Andy discovers, is why he and Laurie were called to the scene-- Pete wants them to take care of the boy and the dog so they...
76) A man of honor
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"The prequel to Barbara Taylor Bradford's New York Times bestselling and dazzling saga A Woman of Substance. Opening five years before the start of A Woman of Substance, A Man of Honor begins with 13-year-old Blackie O'Neill facing an uncertain future in rural County Kerry. Orphaned and alone, he has just buried his sister, Bronagh, and must leave his home to set sail for England, in search of a better life with his mother's brother in Leeds. There,...
Author
Physical Desc
387 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Facing starvation and worse when she is orphaned on her family's 1885 homestead, seventeen-year-old sharpshooter Jessilyn Harney cuts off her hair and disguises herself as a boy to journey across the mountains in search of her outlaw brother.
78) Oliver Twist
Author
Publisher
Baronet
Pub. Date
1989
Edition
Large print ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
238 p. : ill.
Language
English
Description
Nine-year-old orphaned Oliver Twist escapes a workhouse and travels to London to seek a better life.
79) The end
Author
Series
A series of unfortunate events volume the 13th
A series of unfortunate events volume the 11th
Series of unfortunate events volume 13
A series of unfortunate events volume the 11th
Series of unfortunate events volume 13
Publisher
HarperCollins
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
Lost at sea, the Baudelaire orphans, along with the evil Count Olaf, wash up on the shore of an island populated by an oddly placid group of inhabitants, and they try to decide whether or not they are truly safe.
Author
Publisher
Picture Window Books
Pub. Date
2006, c2000
Edition
1st American ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Gilda the giraffe. With no family, Lucky the leopard searches for someone to love and take care of her, and after several disastrous experiences, she makes a surprising choice.