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1) The BFG
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Language
English
Description
The Big Friendly Giant is no ordinary bone-crunching giant. He is far too nice and it's lucky for Sophie that he is. If she had been carried off by any of the other giants she would have been breakfast. When Sophie hears that the giants are headed to England to steal some little children, she and the BFG decide they must stop them once and for all.
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Series
Winterborne home volume 2
Language
English
Description
"April thought she had her happy ending. After all, she has her new house and new friends and new guardian. But she also has a very big new secret. The kids of Winterborne House are the only ones who know that Gabriel Winterborne--famous billionaire and terrible cook--is really a sword-wielding vigilante. What they don't know is that he's not the only one. When a masked figure breaks in, looking for something--or someone--it's clear that Gabriel has...
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Series
A series of unfortunate events volume 8
Language
English
Description
On the run after being falsely accused of murder, the three Baudelaire orphans find themselves in the Heimlich Hospital, with the evil Count Olaf in close pursuit.
Author
Series
A series of unfortunate events volume 7
Language
English
Description
Under a new government program based on the saying "It takes a village to raise a child," the Baudelaire orphans are adopted by an entire town, with disastrous results.
6) Endgames
Author
Series
NewsPrints volume 2
Publisher
Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
After arriving in Atlalus, Blue, who is determined to find Crow and Jack, gets kidnapped by Snow and Red and they set off on an adventure that takes them to the frontlines of the war.
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Series
Unforgettable Logan Foster volume 1
Language
English
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Description
Logan, an undersized twelve-year-old orphan with a photographic memory and no filter, discovers that his foster parents are superheroes in grave danger and only Logan's highly logical mind can save them.
9) Northwind
Author
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
When sickness decimates his fishing village, an orphan named Leif flees north in a cedar canoe, journeying along a brutal but beautiful coastline.
10) The portal
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Series
Tangled in time volume 1
Language
English
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Description
Life used to be great for Rose: full of friends, a loving mom, and a growing fashion blog. But when her mother dies in a car crash, Rose is sent away to live with a strange grandmother she hardly knows and forced to attend a new school where mean girls ridicule her at every turn. The one place Rose finds refuge is in her grandmother's Tudor-style greenhouse. But one night, she sees a strange light glowing from within it. She climbs a ladder to investigate......
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Series
Anne of Green Gables volume 3
Language
English
Description
Anne Shirley is off to attend Redmond College in this beautifully packaged edition of the third novel in Montgomery's beloved Anne of Green Gables series.
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Series
Magic misfits volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Six young magicians and illusionists team up to save their small town from a crooked carnival owner and his goons"--
Author
Publisher
Walker
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
Sometimes you are a whisper away from magic without even realizing it. Nine is an orphan pickpocket determined to escape her life in the Nest of a Thousand Treasures. When she steals a house-shaped ornament from a mysterious woman's purse, she knocks on its tiny door and watches it grow into a huge, higgledy-piggeldy house. Inside she finds a host of magical and brilliantly funny characters, including Flabberghast - a young wizard who's particularly...
Author
Series
Publisher
Papercutz
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
After harsh early years, Pip, an orphan growing up in Victorian England, is given the means to become a gentleman by an unknown benefactor and learns that outward appearances can be deceiving. Presented in comic book format.
15) Written in stone
Author
Publisher
Yearling Book
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
A young girl in a Pacific Northwest Native American tribe in the 1920s must deal with the death of her father and the loss of her tribe's traditional ways.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Carly Bean Bitters, an orphan, can only sleep during the day and feels very lonely until she meets a rat, Lewis, and sets off on an adventure to figure out what is threatening the woods and its inhabitants.
20) The lock-eater
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Melanie Gate, a foundling with a peculiar talent for opening the unopenable, agrees to accompany a gearling automaton named Traveler on his quest to find a home, only to be pursued by the most dangerous wizard in the land and, along the way, discover her true powers.
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