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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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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

Copies Available at Fife Lake

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

Funaro, Gregory.

Summary: In Victorian England Grubb, an orphan about twelve years old, escapes his life of drudgery as a chimney sweep's apprentice and finds himself in a very strange house filled with magical objects and creatures, but soon he learns that there are dark forces seeking his new master.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Disney-Hyperion 2015

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC FUN

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

Copies Available at Kingsley

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

Saracino, Luciano

1 hold on 1 copy

Summary: In this graphic novel adaptation of Victor Hugo's classic, the ex-convict Jean Valjean strives to build a new life in nineteenth century Paris and protect his adopted daughter, Cosette, but he is pursued by the fanatical police inspector Javert who does not believe in redemption--until it is too late for both of them.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch books, a Capstone imprint 2018

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 SAR

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

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

Copies Available at East Bay

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

Nannestad, Katrina

Summary: In 1911, when orphaned ten-year-old Inge comes to live with her stern grandmother in a remote island village in Bornholm, Denmark, she ends up changing the climate of the town, bringing joy and laughter to her grandmother's life and finding a new family for herself to help assuage her grief over losing her mother.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2015

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

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC NAN

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

Hannigan, Kate

Summary: "In 1859, eleven-year-old Nell goes to live with her aunt, Kate Warne, the first female detective for Pinkerton's National Detective Agency. Nell helps her aunt solve cases, including a mystery surrounding Abraham Lincoln, and the mystery of what happened to Nell's own father. Includes author's note and bibliographic references"--

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2015

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Montgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud)

Summary: "Journey into an idyllic, heartwarming, and fanciful story in The Anne Collection, with Anne of Green Gables and Anne of Avonlea by L.M. Montgomery. The Anne of Green Gables series is the tale of Anne Shirley, a young girl orphaned and sent to live with a family who initially wanted to adopt a boy. Anne is kindhearted and charming, and wins over everyone she meets throughout her adventures in...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2020

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

Montgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud)

Summary: "Emily Climbs" is the second tale in The Emily Starr Series, and tells the story of Emily moving to a high school in Shrewsbury and beginning her career as a writer with the local newspaper.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Read Books Ltd. 2015

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

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: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC WAL

Burnett, Frances Hodgson

Summary: Sara Crewe, a pupil at Miss Minchin's London school, is left in poverty when her father dies but is later rescued by a mysterious benefactor.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Kōdansha 2007

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 495.6 FIC BUR

Walliams, David

Summary: This is the story of a ten-year-old orphan and a 10,000-year-old mammoth. When Elsie, an orphan on the streets of Victorian London, hears about the mysterious Ice Monster - a woolly mammoth found at the North Pole - she's determined to discover more. A chance encounter brings Elsie face to face with the creature, and sparks the adventure of a lifetime-- from London to the heart of the Arctic!

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021

Copies Available at Fife Lake

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

Ibbotson, Eva

Summary: Maia, an orphan, can't wait to reach her distant relatives a thousand miles up the Amazon. She imagines a loving family with whom she will share great adventures. Instead she finds two spiteful cousins who see the jungle as the enemy and refuse to go outdoors. But the wonders of the rainforest more than make up for the hideous twins and their parents. And when Maia meets a mysterious boy who...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan Children's Books 2021

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Montgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud)

Summary: "Emily's Quest" is the final tale in The Emily Starr Series, and tells the story of Emily being separated from her childhood sweetheart and agreeing to marry another man.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Read Books Ltd. 2015

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

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