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81) Anne of Avonlea
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Sterling Pub
Pub. Date
[2009]
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An abridged sequel to "Anne of Green Gables" in which sixteen-year-old Anne works as a school teacher in a small village on Prince Edward Island.
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Upon the death of her father, seventeen-year-old Charlotte struggles to keep the family's woolen mill running in the face of an overwhelming mortgage and what the local villagers believe is a curse, but when a man capable of spinning straw into gold appears on the scene she must decide if his help is worth the price.
87) Pigs in heaven
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When a six-year-old child named Turtle is the sole witness to a freak accident at the Hoover Dam, she and her adoptive mother Taylor have a moment of celebrity that will change their lives forever. Turtle is claimed by Annawake Fourkiller, a Cherokee activist, to have been wrongly taken from the Cherokee nation. Fear of losing Turtle sends Taylor fleeing across the country with her mother Alice, pursued by Annawake. In the course of their journey,...
88) Ruby Holler
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Thirteen-year-old fraternal twins Dallas and Florida have grown up in a terrible orphanage but their lives change forever when an eccentric but sweet older couple invites them each on an adventure, beginning in an almost magical place called Ruby Holler.
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Valiant hearts Book 1
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Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2015]
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Lady Merry Ellison, seventeen, will go to any lengths to protect "The Ghosts of Farthingale Forest," a band of orphans from her former village who hijacked ill-gotten gold meant for the king, capturing the attention of Timothy Grey, the ninth child of a baron, who longs to perform a legendary feat and earn a title of his own.
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Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2013.
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Nine-year-old Nicholas Benedict, a boy without parents and afflicted with an unfortunate nose and narcolepsy, is sent to a new orphanage where he encounters vicious bullies, selfish adults, strange circumstances, and a mystery that could change his life forever.
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Uncertain choice Book 1
Publisher
Zondervan
Pub. Date
[2015]
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On the eve of her eighteenth birthday, orphaned Lady Rosemarie must marry the noblest knight or keep an ancient vow to become a nun.
93) Runaway
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After running away from her fifth foster home, Holly, a twelve-year-old orphan, travels across the country, keeping a journal of her experiences and struggle to survive.
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Wilde (Harlan Coben) Book 1
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Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2020
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"The man known as Wilde is a mystery to everyone, including himself. Decades ago, he was found as a boy living feral in the woods, with no memory of his past. After the police concluded an exhaustive hunt for the child's family, which was never found, he was turned over to the foster system. Now, thirty years later, Wilde still doesn't know where he comes from, and he's back living in the woods on the outskirts of town, content to be an outcast, comfortable...
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Boxcar children Book 73
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Albert Whitman
Pub. Date
2000
Description
The Aldens try to help a visiting Russian gymnast who is surrounded by mysterious people and events and who seems to have a secret.
97) Lightning tree
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Sweetwater Books
Pub. Date
[2012], ©2012
Description
Fifteen-year-old Maggie survives the trek across the plains to Utah Territory only to lose her parents, her older brother, and her baby sister. She and her sister are taken in the Aldens, but the girls know something is amiss when they find their mother's china locked in Ma Alden's trunk.
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"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 through northern Texas, giving live readings from newspapers...
99) Remarkables
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Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2019]
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A wordless picture book in which a boy meets an orphaned mermaid and invites her to join his circus family.
100) The orphan collector
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"In the fall of 1918, thirteen-year-old German immigrant Pia Lange longs to be far from Philadelphia's overcrowded slums and the anti-immigrant sentiment that compelled her father to enlist in the U.S. Army. But as her city celebrates the end of war, an even more urgent threat arrives: the Spanish flu. Funeral crepe and quarantine signs appear on doors as victims drop dead in the streets and desperate survivors wear white masks to ward off illness....
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