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Author
Series
Angels walking volume 3
Publisher
Howard Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 12
Physical Desc
326 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Karen Kingsbury comes the third novel in an unforgettable series about divine intervention and the trials and triumphs of life for a group of friends. Despite needing a heart transplant and against the advice of her doctor, Mary Catherine moves to Uganda to work at a new orphanage. Whatever time she has left, Mary Catherine wants to spend it helping children--especially since there will be no children of...
Author
Series
York volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Abandoned in a Chicago orphanage with her sister, Frankie endures injustice, poverty, and violence while struggling to survive in the years leading up to World War II.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
Spending all their young lives at the Little Tulip orphanage, five clever kids plot a daring escape from a conscripting sea captain before the search for one orphan s mysterious origins leads them through back roads, alleys and canals to an old windmill housing an abandoned puppet theater.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
The #1 New York Times best-selling series.
Bonus features:
• Sneak preview of the third Peculiar Children novel
• Exclusive Q&A with Ransom Riggs
• Never-before-seen peculiar photography
Like its predecessor, this second novel in the Peculiar Children series blends thrilling fantasy with vintage photography to create a one-of-a-kind reading experience.
September 3,...
Bonus features:
• Sneak preview of the third Peculiar Children novel
• Exclusive Q&A with Ransom Riggs
• Never-before-seen peculiar photography
Like its predecessor, this second novel in the Peculiar Children series blends thrilling fantasy with vintage photography to create a one-of-a-kind reading experience.
September 3,...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
Two families, generations apart, are forever changed by a heartbreaking injustice in this poignant novel, inspired by a true story, for readers of Orphan Train and The Nightingale. Memphis, 1939. Twelve-year-old Rill Foss and her four younger siblings live a magical life aboard their family's Mississippi River shantyboat. But when their father must rush their mother to the hospital one stormy night, Rill is left in charge--until strangers arrive...
Author
Publisher
Nightfire, Tor Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
viii, 335 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"St. Vincent's Orphanage for Boys. Turn of the century, in a remote valley in Pennsylvania. Here, under the watchful eyes of several priests, thirty boys work, learn, and worship. Peter Barlow, orphaned as a child by a gruesome murder, has made a new life here. As he approaches adulthood, he has friends, a future...a family. Then, late one stormy night, a group of men arrive at their door, one of whom is badly wounded, occult symbols carved into his...
Author
Publisher
Amazon Crossing Kids
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
181 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Mika is not your average twelve-year-old--and she’s about to prove it. 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? Mika is shocked when a newborn baby is left at the orphanage in the middle of the night, by a boy with a...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"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 the U.S. Army, hoping to prove his loyalty. But an even more urgent threat has arrived. Spanish influenza is spreading through the city. Soon, dead and dying are everywhere. With no food at home, Pia must venture out in search of supplies, leaving...
11) Nacho Libre
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (92 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Ignacio 'Nacho' is a cook by day in a Mexican orphanage who moonlights as a lucha libre wrestler to raise money for the orphans.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 19
Physical Desc
337 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Struggling to understand why his beloved grandfather left his family to die alone in a field hospital far from home, a young doctor in a war-torn Balkan country takes over her grandfather's search for a mythical ageless vagabond while referring to a worncopy of Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book.
14) Orphan eleven
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1939, after cruel treatment at her orphanage renders her mute, Lucy runs away and joins the circus, working with the elephants and unaware that the orphanage matrons are hunting for her.
15) Brush of wings
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Despite needing a heart transplant and against her doctor's advice, Mary Catherine moves to Uganda to spend the time she has left helping children. The team of angels walking is busier than ever in this poignant tale of love, sacrifice, and the power of faith--From the publisher's web site.
16) Iron house
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Formats
Description
An old man is dying.
When the old man is dead they will come for him.
And they will come for her, to make him hurt.
John Hart has written three New York Times bestsellers and won an unprecedented two back-to-back Edgar Awards. His books have been called "masterful" (Jeffery Deaver) and "gripping" (People) with "Grisham-style intrigue and Turow-style brooding" (The New York Times). Now he delivers
17) Thornhill
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Parallel plotlines set in different times, one told in text and one in art, inform each other as a young girl unravels the mystery of a ghost next door--
Author
Language
English
Description
In 1950s Quebec, French and English tolerate each other with precarious civility--much like Maggie Hughes' parents. Maggie's English-speaking father has ambitions for his daughter that don't include marriage to the poor French boy the next farm over. But Maggie's heart is captured by Gabriel Phňix. When she becomes pregnant at fifteen, her parents send the baby Elodie to an orphanage where she receives horrible treatment. Seventeen years later, Maggie,...
Author
Publisher
Yen Press
Pub. Date
2013-
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
volumes (unpaged) : chiefly illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
A horrific family tragedy sets sixteen-year-old Jacob on a journey to a remote island off the coast of Wales, where he discovers the crumbling ruins of Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children. As Jacob explores its abandoned bedrooms and hallways, it becomes clear that the children were more than just peculiar. They may have been dangerous. They may have been quarantined on a deserted island for good reason. And somehow--impossible though it seems--they...
20) Norbit
Publisher
DreamWorks Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 102 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Norbit is a mild-mannered man who in 1967 was abandoned by his parents and left at an orphanage as a baby. He is raised by the owner of the orphanage, Mr. Wong. He becomes friends with another orphan, Kate. When Kate is adopted, Norbit feels lonely but is protected by the fat and big Rasputia. When they grow up, Rasputia becomes a monstrous woman. She and Norbit get married. When Kate returns to her hometown, she has decided to buy Mr. Wong's orphanage....
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