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Folk of the air volume 1
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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Jude, seventeen and mortal, gets tangled in palace intrigues while trying to win a place in the treacherous High Court of Faerie, where she and her sisters have lived for a decade.
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Series
Kingdom of three volume vol 1
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
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Description
As three warring fractures try to gain control of the kingdom, orphaned Zephyr, a strategist serving Xin Ren, infiltrates an enemy camp where she encounters the enigmatic Crow, an opposing strategist who might just be her match.
3) Delirium
Author
Series
Delirium trilogy volume 1
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
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Description
Lena looks forward to receiving the government-mandated cure that prevents the delirium of love and leads to a safe, predictable, and happy life, until ninety-five days before her eighteenth birthday and her treatment, she falls in love.
4) Eve
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Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
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Description
In 2032, sixteen years after a deadly virus has wiped out most of the earth's population, Eve discovers the terrible fate that awaits students when they graduate from their all-girls school, and she sets off on a treacherous journey into the wilds of The New America, searching for a place where she can survive.
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Series
Boxcar children volume 21
Language
English
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Description
At an old library, the Alden children discover a boy who needs their help and a stranger who is after a valuable object they found in the library.
7) Heidi
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Series
Publisher
Duke Classics
Language
English
Description
A Swiss orphan is heartbroken when she must leave her beloved grandfather and their happy home in the mountains to go to school and to care for an invalid girl in the city.
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Series
Anne of Green Gables volume 4
Language
English
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Anne Shirley has left Redmond College behind to begin a new job and a new chapter of her life away from Green Gables.
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Series
Boxcar children volume 83
Language
English
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A series of practical jokes at a restored nineteenth-century farmhouse makes the Aldens wonder if the ghost of its builder is at work.
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Series
Boxcar children volume 33
Language
English
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Description
When their favorite pizza restaurant almost goes out of business, the Alden children try to help their friends stay open while they find out who is behind all their problems.
Author
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
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Description
Samuel and his younger brother, Joshua, are free black boys living in an orphanage during the Civil War, but when Samuel takes the blame for his brother's prank, he is sent South, given a new name, and sold into slavery--and somehow he must survive both captivity and the war, to find his way back to his brother.
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Series
Boxcar children volume 50
Language
English
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While exploring the caves around Dragon's Mouth Cavern, a series of unusual and somewhat frightening events convinces the Alden children that someone does not want them around.
14) Northwind
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
When sickness decimates his fishing camp, an orphan named Leif flees north in a cedar canoe, journeying along a brutal but beautiful coastline.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Language
English
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Description
Nineteen-year-old returning champion Sean Kendrick competes against Puck Connolly, the first girl ever to ride in the annual Scorpio Races, both trying to keep hold of their dangerous water horses long enough to make it to the finish line.
16) Once there was
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Series
Language
English
Description
When fifteen-year-old Iranian American Marjan discovers her murdered father was secretly a veterinarian to magical creatures, she realizes she must take up his mantle, despite the many dangers.
17) The Willoughbys
Author
Series
Willoughbys volume 1
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
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Description
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.
18) The mystery girl
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Series
Boxcar children volume 28
Language
English
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Description
While helping run Jerry Taylor's general store, the Alden children investigate his mysterious employee Nancy.
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Series
Boxcar children volume 46
Language
English
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Description
The Boxcar children investigate when ice cream and other items start disappearing from their favorite ice cream parlor.
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Series
Boxcar children volume 73
Language
English
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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.