Lowry, Lois.
Summary: In this tongue-in-cheek take on classic themes in children's literature, the four Willoughby children set about to become "deserving orphans" after their neglectful parents embark on a treacherous around-the-world adventure, leaving them in the care of an odious nanny.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Listening Library 2008
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD FIC LOWLowry, Lois
Summary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Clarion Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC LOWLowry, Lois.
Summary: Lame and suddenly orphaned, Kira is mysteriously removed from her squalid village to live in the palatial Council Edifice, where she is expected to use her gifts as a weaver to do the bidding of the all-powerful Guardians.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House/Listening Library 2006
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Summary: Lame and suddenly orphaned, Kira is mysteriously removed from her squalid village to live in the palatial Council Edifice, where she is expected to use her gifts as a weaver to do the bidding of the all-powerful Guardians.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 2000
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC LOWJohnston, Joan
Summary: When Karl Norwood's mail order bride is killed on her way to meet him, Hetty Wentworth takes her place, pretending to be the dead woman, but when Karl discovers her deception, she risks losing the man she has come to love.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC JOHJohnston, Antony
Summary: After being told that his father was an assassin for a criminal organization, fourteen-year-old Alex goes to Italy to find out more and becomes involved in a plan to kill thousands of English schoolchildren.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2017
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J GRAPHIC ALEKloss, Robert
Summary: Manifest Destiny drives American expansion westward, building an early 19th-century society with genocidal brutality. This is the context that framesThe Revelator's protagonist: a young orphan named Joseph. Reared on nights spent carousing with drunks and con men, the young protagonist dreams of something more.
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Unnamed Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KLOBujold, Lois McMaster
Summary: "When the ship in which they are traveling is captured by Carpagamon island raiders, Temple sorcerer Penric and his resident demon Desdemona find their life complicated by two young orphans, Lencia and Seuka Corva, far from home and searching for their missing father. Pen and Des will need all their combined talents of mind and magic to unravel the mysteries of the sisters and escape from the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Subterranean Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BUJLeppard, Lois Gladys.
Summary: A collection of tales featuring Mandie, an orphan, and her friends as they solve mysteries together in turn-of-the-century North Carolina.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House Publishers 2007
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC LEPJohnson, Anna Rose
Summary: "Lucy, a spirited French-Ojibwe orphan, is sent to the stormy waters of Lake Superior to live with a mysterious family of lighthouse- keepers -- and, she hopes, to find the legendary necklace her father spent his life seeking."--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2024
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC JOHEllis, Kat
Summary: "When someone close to Ava Thorn is brutally murdered and Ava becomes the primary suspect, she starts to wonder if ghostly legends surrounding her town might be more fact than fiction"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ELLMeyer, L. A. (Louis A.)
Summary: In 1804, fifteen-year-old Jacky Faber heads back to sea where she gains control of a British warship and eventually becomes a privateer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt 2007
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Summary: In 1806, star-crossed lovers Jacky Faber and Jaimy Fletcher are kidnapped by British Naval Intelligence and forced to embark on yet another daring mission--this time to search for sunken Spanish gold off the Florida coast.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway Digital Audio 2010
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC MEYHorowitz, Anthony
Summary: Fourteen-year-old Alex continues his work as a spy for the British MI6, investigating an exclusive school for boys in the French Alps.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel Books 2008
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 ALEGraff, Lisa (Lisa Colleen)
Summary: "Destiny leads 11-year-old Cady to a peanut butter factory, a family of children searching for their own Talents, and a Talent Thief who will alter her life forever"--Provided by publisher. Includes cake recipes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel Books 2013
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2 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC GRAJewell, Lisa
Summary: "Soon after her twenty-fifth birthday, Libby Jones returns home from work to find the letter she's been waiting for her entire life. She rips it open with one driving thought: I am finally going to know who I am. She soon learns not only the identity of her birth parents, but also that she is the sole inheritor of their abandoned mansion on the banks of the Thames in London's fashionable...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2019