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Hunted across the True Sea and haunted by the lives she took on the Fold, Alina must try to make a life with Mal in an unfamiliar land, all while keeping her identity as the Sun Summoner a secret.

2) The fairy-tale detectives / (bk. 1 Sisters Grimm)

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Buckley, Michael

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Mysteries-Middle Grade

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Orphans Sabrina and Daphne Grimm are sent to live with an eccentric grandmother that they have always believed to be dead.

3) The BFG

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Dahl, Roald

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RU (APA) 4th Grade

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Kidsnatched from her orphanage by a BFG (Big Friendly Giant), who spends his life blowing happy dreams to children, Sophie concocts with him a plan to save the world from nine other man-gobbling cannybull giants.

4) The mark of the dragonfly

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Johnson, Jaleigh

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Since her father's death in a factory in the Dragonfly territories, thirteen-year-old Piper has eked out a living as a scrapper in Merrow Kingdom, but the arrival of a mysterious girl sends her on a dangerous journey to distant lands.

5) The mermaid, the witch, and the sea

Author

Tokuda-Hall, Maggie

Publisher

Candlewick Press

Pub. Date

2020.

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Book, eBook, Kindle

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Publisher Annotation: In a world divided by colonialism and threaded with magic, a desperate orphan turned pirate and a rebellious imperial lady find a connection on the high seas.

6) The False Prince / (bk. 1 Ascendance Trilogy)

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Nielsen, Jennifer A

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In the country of Carthya, a devious nobleman engages four orphans in a brutal competition to be selected to impersonate the king's long-missing son in an effort to avoid a civil war.

7) Oliver Twist

Author

Dickens, Charles

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Classic Books

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One of the great novelist’s most popular works, Oliver Twist is also the purest distillation of Dickens’s genius.
This tale of the orphan who is reared in a workhouse and runs away to London is a novel of social protest, a morality tale, and a detective story. Oliver Twist presents some of the most sinister characters in Dickens: the master thief, Fagin; the leering Artful Dodger; the murderer, Bill Sikes…along...

8) Cloud cuckoo land: a novel

Author

Doerr, Anthony

Pub. Date

2021.

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"From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of perhaps the most bestselling and beloved literary fiction of our time comes a triumph of imagination and compassion, a soaring novel about children on the cusp of adulthood in a broken world, who find resilience, hope, and story. The heroes of Cloud Cuckoo Land are children trying to figure out the world around them, and to survive. In the besieged city of Constantinople in 1453, in a public library in Lakeport,...

9) Maniac Magee: a novel

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Spinelli, Jerry

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Warner, Gertrude Chandler

After his parents die, Jeffrey Lionel Magee's life becomes legendary, as he accomplishes athletic and other feats which awe his contemporaries.

10) The boxcar children / (bk. 1 Boxcar Children)

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Book, Audio Book, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle

Four orphans take shelter in an old boxcar during a storm, and, determined to make it their own, they turn it into a safe, cozy home.

11) The graveyard book

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Gaiman, Neil

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After the grisly murder of his entire family, a toddler wanders into a graveyard where the ghosts and other supernatural residents agree to raise him as one of their own.

12) A proper scandal: a novel

Author

Hatch, Esther

Publisher

Covenant Communications, Inc

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Caitlin's Picks

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Grace Sinclair has been callously cast out of her home. Despite the vicar and his wife taking her in years ago, her unsurpassed beauty makes it impossible for her to remain in the vicar's household--with two daughters of their own about to enter Society, the vicar and his wife see Grace as nothing but competition. Thankfully, Grace's estranged Aunt Bell from London has agreed to care for her. But Grace soon learns her situation has just gotten much...

13) Slathbog's gold / (bk. 1 Adventurers Wanted)

Author

Forman, Mark

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Shadow Mountain

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Book, Audio Book, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle

When fifteen-year-old orphan Alex Taylor sees an odd sign in a shop window and goes inside to investigate, he is sent on a quest to defeat an evil dragon, and in the process he confronts his fears and learns about his future and his past.

14) The Willoughbys

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Lowry, Lois

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Audio Book, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle

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.

15) The Dangerous Days of Daniel X

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Patterson, James

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Discover the heart-pounding start to the #1 bestselling series from James Patterson! Daniel X is on the hunt for the being who killed his parents, but danger—and the world's deadliest aliens—lurk in the shadows.
Daniel X has the greatest power of all: the ability to create. His secret abilities—like being able to manipulate objects and animals with his mind or to recreate himself in any shape he chooses—have

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16) Shadow and bone / (bk. 1 Grisha Trilogy)

Author

Bardugo, Leigh

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If You Like Mr. Lemoncello's Library...

Orphaned by the Border Wars, Alina Starkov is taken from obscurity and her only friend, Mal, to become the protegé of the mysterious Darkling, who trains her to join the magical elite in the belief that she is the Sun Summoner, who can destroy the monsters of the Fold.

17) Winterborne Home for vengeance and valor / (bk. 1 Winterborne Home for Vengeance and Valor)

Author

Carter, Ally

Pub. Date

2020

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After years in foster care, April gets to live in a mansion where she and four other children are caught up in a mystery related to a missing heir, a lost legacy, and the Phantom. April didn't mean to start the fire. She wasn’t the one who broke the vase. April didn’t ask to go live in a big, creepy mansion with a bunch of orphans who just don't understand that April isn’t like them. After all, April’s mother is coming back for her someday...

18) The family upstairs: a novel

Author

Jewell, Lisa

Pub. Date

2019.

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Gifted musician Clemency Thompson is playing for tourists on the streets of southern France when she receives an urgent text message. Her childhood friend, Lucy, is demanding her immediate return to London. It's happening, says the message. The baby is back. Libby Jones was only six months old when she became an orphan. Now twenty-five, she's astounded to learn of an inheritance that will change her life. A gorgeous, dilapidated townhouse in one of...

19) David Copperfield

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David Copperfield is considered to be Charles Dickens's most autobiographical novel. He said of it: "Like many fond parents, I have in my heart of hearts a favourite child. And his name is David Copperfield." It is a Bildungsroman, a tale which follows the development into maturity of its narrator, David Copperfield. The Russian greats Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky both greatly admired the novel, as did Kafka, Joyce and James. Freud called it

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20) The bean trees

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Kingsolver, Barbara

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