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Foster home care Juvenile fiction Lighthouse keepers Juvenile fiction Ojibwa Indians Juvenile fiction Orphans Fiction Orphans Juvenile fiction People with disabilities Juvenile fiction Pirates Juvenile fiction Seafaring life Juvenile fiction Sex role Juvenile fiction Western storiesLowry, 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 Fiction, Call number: J FIC LOWCopies Available at Peninsula
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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte 2005
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC 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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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD LOWLowry, Lois.
Summary: After being orphaned during the influenza epidemic of 1918, eleven-year-old Lydia Pierce and her fourteen-year-old brother are taken by their grieving uncle to be raised in the Shaker community at Sabbathday Lake. Includes author's note about the Shakers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2011
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC LOWLowry, 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.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 2008
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC LOWLowry, Lois.
Summary: Collects the four giver novels about life in a futuristic society.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2014
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Summary: 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.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 2008
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1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction Lowry 2008Johnston, Michael
Summary: Twelve-year-old Wick, a warlock-in-training with allergies, sets out to prove that he is ready for his great and terrible destiny--to fill the shoes of his late father, the Dark Lord.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC JOHJohnson, 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 Fiction, Call number: J FIC JOHCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC JOHMeyer, L. A. (Louis A.)
Summary: In 1803, after being exposed as a girl and forced to leave her ship, Jacky Faber finds herself attending school in Boston, where, instead of learning to be a lady, she battles her snobbish classmates, roams the city in search of adventure, and learns to ride a horse.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt 2004
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: FIC MeyerMeyer, L. A. (Louis A.)
Summary: Reduced to begging and thievery in the streets of London, a thirteen-year-old orphan disguises herself as a boy and connives her way onto a British warship set for high sea adventure in search of pirates.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Listen & Live Audio 2007
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1 available in JT Audio Books, Call number: JT CD Fiction Meyer 2007Meyer, L. A. (Louis A.)
Summary: Reduced to begging and thievery in the streets of London, a thirteen-year-old orphan disguises herself as a boy and connives her way onto a British warship set for high sea adventure in search of pirates.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt 2002
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Summary: A ragtag team of orphans embark on a quest for justice against the villain who destroyed their home, a mission that is shaped by the mysterious bonds they share and a legendary cursed stone.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt & Company 2018
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1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction McLelland 2018McLelland, Brad
Summary: In an 1850s Wild West filled with supernatural beasts and magic-wielding outlaws, Keech and his band of fellow orphans, seeking revenge for their killed families, search for Bonfire Crossing, the Osage land that holds clues to the wherabouts of the all-powerful Char Stone.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019