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Holm, Jennifer L.

Summary: Far from her native Philadelphia, Miss Jane Peck continues to prove that she is more than an etiquette-schooled graduate of Miss Hepplewhite's Young Ladies Academy as she braves the untamed wilderness of Washington Territory in the mid 1850s.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2010

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC HOL

Holm, Jennifer L.

Summary: The arrival from Philadelphia of her spiteful nemesis Sally Biddle and the return of her corrupt ex-fiance Richard Baldt spell trouble for seventeen-year-old Miss Jane Peck, who has survived on her own in Shoalwater Bay, a community of white settlers and Chinook Indians in 1850s Washington Territory.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 2004

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC HOL

Jiles, Paulette

Summary: In the wake of the Civil War, Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd travels through northern Texas, giving live readings from newspapers to paying audiences hungry for news of the world. An elderly widower who has lived through three wars and fought in two of them, the captain enjoys his rootless, solitary existence. In Wichita Falls, he is offered a $50 gold piece to deliver a young orphan to her...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning 2016

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC JIL

Larson, Kirby

Summary: After inheriting her uncle's homesteading claim in Montana, sixteen-year-old orphan Hattie Brooks travels from Iowa in 1917 to make a home for herself and encounters some unexpected problems related to the war being fought in Europe.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2013

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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J PA FIC LAR

Farrant, Natasha

Summary: In the aftermath of World War I, two orphaned friends set off in a narrowboat from England as each hopes to find a missing part of themselves in France.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Norton Young Readers, an imprint of W. W. Norton & Company 2021

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC FAR

Avi

Summary: Mangus the Magician and his thirteen-year-old servant, Fabrizio, are commanded to go to Venice, on pain of death, to find a book by Friar Luca Pacioli which reportedly contains a magical means of making money; but Venice is a strange and dangerous city, and someone else is also after the book--then Mangus is arrested, and taken to the prison, and Fabrizio and Bianca, an orphan he has met, must...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2022

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC AVI

Colman, Alyssa

Summary: "Any child can spark magic, but only the elite are allowed to kindle it. Those denied access to the secrets of the kindling ritual will see their magic snuffed out before their thirteenth birthday. Miss Posterity's Academy for Practical Magic is the best kindling school in New York City--and wealthy twelve-year-old Emma Harris is accustomed to the best. But when her father dies, leaving her...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2021

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC COL

Sebag-Montefiore, Mary.

Summary: Presents an abridged version of the story of ten-year-old Mary who, after the death of her parents, comes to live in a lonely house on the Yorkshire moors where she discovers an invalid cousin and the mysteries of a locked garden.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: EDC Publishing 2017

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Philbrick, W. R. (W. Rodman)

Summary: Twelve-year-old Homer, a poor but clever orphan, has extraordinary adventures after running away from his evil uncle to rescue his brother, who has been sold into service in the Civil War.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2011

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC PHI

Walter, Jon

Summary: Samuel and his younger brother, Joshua, are free black boys living in an orphanage during the Civil War, but when Samuel takes the blame for his brother's prank, he is sent South, given a new name, and sold into slavery--and somehow he must survive both captivity and the war, to find his way back to his brother.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: David Fickling Books/Scholastic Inc. 2016

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC WAL

Warner, Gertrude Chandler

Summary: The Aldens are visiting friends for a big Dia de los Muertos celebration. The kids love learning about the holiday and helping out - that is until mysterious events threaten to ruin everyone's preparations. Can the Aldens figure out what's going on and help their friends save the celebration?

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Albert Whitman & Company 2018

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC WAR

Nelson, Theresa

Summary: In St. Louis, Missouri, in 1911, orphaned eleven-year-old Julia Delaney rails against countless disappointments and the nun's strict rules at the House of Mercy, especially after her sister Mary turns fourteen and must leave, but she, her family, and best friend get tangled up with a gangster and a decade-old mystery.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2015

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Denenberg, Barry.

Summary: William, a twelve-year-old orphan, writes of his experiences in pre-Revolutionary War Boston where he joins the cause of the patriots who are opposed to the British rule.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 1998

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC DEN

Snicket, Lemony

Summary: After narrowly escaping the menacing clutches of the dastardly Count Olaf, the three Baudelaire orphans are taken in by a kindly herpetologist with whom they live happily for an all-too-brief time.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J PA FIC SNI

Warner, Gertrude Chandler

Summary: The Aldens take part in a hunt at a gem mine and discover that someone is out to sabotage the contest.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: A. Whitman 2002

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC WAR

Barry, Dave.

Summary: Soon after Peter, an orphan, sets sail from England on the ship Never Land, he befriends and assists Molly, a young Starcatcher, whose mission is to guard a trunk of magical stardust from a greedy pirate and the native inhabitants of a remote island.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway Digital Audio 2009

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Phillips, Michael R.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2004

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC PHI

Murphy, Jim

Summary: James Edmond, a sixteen-year-old orphan, keeps a journal of his experiences and those of "G" Company which he joined as a volunteer in the Union Army during the Civil War.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 1998

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Snicket, Lemony

Summary: Catastrophes and misfortune continue to plague the Baudelaire orphans after they're sent to live with fearful Aunt Josephine who offers little protection against Count Olaf's treachery.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J PA FIC SNI

Warner, Gertrude Chandler

Summary: The Aldens are excited to learn about beekeeping, but when equipment goes missing, they have more than honey to harvest--they have a mystery to solve.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Albert Whitman & Company 2023

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Gemeinhart, Dan

Summary: In 1890 Washington the only family Joseph Johnson has left is his half-wild Indian pony, Sarah, so when she is sold by a man who has no right to do so, he sets out to get her back--and he plans to let nothing stop him in his quest.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2016

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC GEM

Warner, Gertrude Chandler

Summary: Two brothers take summer jobs at a department store where a series of peculiar events brings them under suspicion.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: A. Whitman 1976

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC WAR

Levine, Ellen.

Summary: In his 1845 diary, thirteen-year-old orphan Jedediah describes his wagon train journey to Oregon, in which he confronts rivers and sandy plains, bears and rattlesnakes, and the challenges of living with his fellow travelers. Includes historical notes.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2002

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Jiles, Paulette

Summary: "In the aftermath of the Civil War, an aging itinerant news reader agrees to transport a young captive of the Kiowa back to her people in this exquisitely rendered, morally complex, multilayered novel of historical fiction from the author of Enemy Women that explores the boundaries of family, responsibility, honor, and trust.In the wake of the Civil War, Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd travels...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2016

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JIL

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION JIL

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