Warner, Gertrude Chandler
Summary: While sightseeing in San Francisco, the Boxcar children uncover a mystery involving fishing boats and sabotage.
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Publisher / Publication Date: A. Whitman 1997
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC WARLarson, Kirby.
Summary: In 1919, seventeen-year-old Hattie leaves the Montana prairie--and her sweetheart Charlie--to become a female reporter in San Francisco.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Listening Library 2013
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC LARYep, Laurence
Summary: A tiger, a monkey, a dragon, and a twelve-year-old Chinese American boy fight to keep a magic talisman out of the hands of an enemy who would use its power to destroy the world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper; an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2021
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Summary: A sweeping historical tale based on the life and times of the daughter of a New York merchant finds the orphaned Belle suffering at the hands of a rival cousin before working as a prostitute and transforming herself repeatedly to win the love and life she desires.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MARKrueger, William Kent.
Summary: Minnesota, 1932. The Lincoln School is a pitiless place where hundreds of Native American children, forcibly separated from their parents, are sent to be educated. It is also home to an orphan named Odie O'Banion, a lively boy whose exploits earn him the superintendent's wrath. Forced to flee, he and his brother Albert, their best friend Mose, and a brokenhearted little girl named Emmy steal...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC KRUJiles, 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...
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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 JILBarry, 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway Digital Audio 2009
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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.
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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 FARAvi
Summary: As Crispin tries to fulfill Bear's dream of moving to Iceland, he must leave Troth behind at a convent that needs a healer but, after falling in with thieves posing as musicians, he makes a new friend, Owen, and together they continue the arduous journey.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Balzer + Bray 2010
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1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction Avi 2010Warner, Gertrude Chandler
Summary: While staying at the Crooked House, the family home of their housekeeper Mrs. McGregor, the Aldens try to solve a riddle that will lead them to a hidden treasure.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Albert Whitman 2000
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC WARWarner, Gertrude Chandler
Summary: When their favorite author fails to arrive as scheduled to speak at the local library, the Alden children investigate how he could board a train and never be seen again.
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Publisher / Publication Date: A. Whitman 2006
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Summary: In the perilous Mortmain mountains, Klaus and Violet Baudelaire meet another well-read person, who helps them try to rescue Sunny from the villainous Count Olaf and his henchmen as they all near "the last safe place."
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2003
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC SNICopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC SNISonneborn, Scott
Summary: Searching in Los Angeles for the descendant of the man whose right eye was used to create his dad, J.D. discovers that the man, Sam Hammer, is a detective on the trail of a werewolf--and finds himself arrested at the request of Frankenstein's daughter.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2014
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED SONWarner, Gertrude Chandler
Summary: "The Aldens find a hidden time capsule! Inside is a journal with clues to a treasure hunt. Who wrote the journal? And after a hundred years, can the Boxcar Children find the treasure?"--Back cover
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Publisher / Publication Date: Albert Whitman & Company 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC WARLevine, 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2002
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Summary: A clue takes Amy and Dan Cahill to Egypt, where they investigate the origins of the rivalry between the Tomas and Ekaterina branches of their family and try to figure out if they can trust a message from their dead grandmother Grace.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2009
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC THIWarner, Gertrude Chandler
Summary: The Alden children and their grandfather are hiking down from Flat Top when a rockslide reveals a cave with a big secret.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Albert Whitman & Company 2021
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE WARDoerr, Anthony
Summary: Thirteen-year-old Anna, an orphan, lives inside the formidable walls of Constantinople in a house of women who make their living embroidering the robes of priests. Restless, insatiably curious, Anna learns to read, and in this ancient city, famous for its libraries, she finds a book, the story of Aethon, who longs to be turned into a bird so that he can fly to a utopian paradise in the sky....
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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3 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC DOECopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA FIC DOEPhillips, Michael R.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2004
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC PHIKrueger, William Kent
Summary: "The acclaimed author of Ordinary Grace crafts a powerful novel about an orphan's life-changing adventure traveling down America's great rivers during the Great Depression, seeking both a place to call home and a sense of purpose in a world sinking into despair"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KRUCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Krueger 2019Jiles, 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JILCopies Available at Peninsula
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION JILFord, Jamie.
Summary: Twelve-year-old William Eng, a Chinese American boy, has lived at Seattle's Sacred Heart Orphanage ever since his mother's listless body was carried away from their small apartment five years ago. On his birthday, William and the other orphans are taken to the historical Moore Theatre, where William glimpses an actress on the silver screen who goes by the name of Willow Frost. Struck by her...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape/Random House Audio 2013
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC FORFord, Jamie
Summary: With his friend Charlotte, twelve-year-old William Eng, a Chinese-American boy, escapes from a Seattle orphanage determined to find his mother Willow and discover his connection to the exotic film star.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION FORCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Ford 2013Blackwood, Sage.
Summary: "Jinx travels throughout the Urwald to unite its people and creatures against encroaching threats"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015