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Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Cécile is enjoying her older brother Armand's return from France and her growing friendship with Marie-Grace, with whom she volunteers at an orphanage, until the yellow fever epidemic theatening New Orleans strikes her own household.
Author
Series
Boxcar children volume 127
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
While spending two days touring a zoo to see the baby animals, the four Alden children, aged six to fourteen, help catch an escaped monkey, participate in a photography contest, and investigate a missing camera.
84) Paint the wind
Author
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
After her overprotective grandmother has a stroke, Maya, an orphan, leaves her extremely restricted life in California to stay with her mother's family on a remote Wyoming ranch, where she discovers a love of horses and encounters a wild mare that her mother once rode.
Maya is held captive in her grandmothers house in California but her imagination runs wild in Wyoming with a horse called Artemisia and the memory of her mother.
Author
Series
Boxcar children volume 108
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
The Aldens visit Grandfather's friend at the Ogopogo Retreat and aided by puzzling clues, embark on a treasure hunt to prevent the retreat from being sold.
Author
Series
Boxcar children volume 121
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
The Alden children stumble upon a mystery when they enter their dog, Watch, in a contest that could lead to fame and fortune, but where things keep going wrong.
88) Urban outlaws
Author
Series
Urban Outlaws volume 1
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Deep beneath London, five extraordinary youths, orphans who bonded over their shared sense of justice, have formed the Urban Outlaws and dedicated themselves to outsmarting criminals and performing Random Acts of Kindness (R.A.K.s), but they are in serious trouble when they face a genius super-computer, Proteus.
Series
Boxcar children volume 145
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Alice is running for mayor, and someone is using deception to try and beat her, so it's up to the Boxcar children to find out who's behind the dirty tricks.
Author
Series
Boxcar children volume 87
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
When an elderly friend is injured, the Alden children offer to help him with his window-washing business in their small town of Greenfield and agree to help him solve a riddle that has arrived in a mysterious invitation.
Author
Series
Boxcar children volume 125
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
People line up around the block to buy Mama Tova's cupcakes. But who could be trying to steal her secret recipe? The Boxcar Children follow clues to a cupcake contest, where they must use their mystery-solving skills to find a thief.
Author
Series
Boxcar children volume 107
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
When the Aldens help a friend of their grandfather's to build the world's largest yo-yo, they soon discover that more than one person is trying to prevent them from finishing the job--and for more than one reason.
93) Mirage
Author
Series
Winterhaven volume 2
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Violet McKenna, back for her senior year at Winterhaven, finds her friends in danger, a mysterious new teacher as her psychic coach, and her Sabbat tendencies threatening her relationship with Aidan.
94) Russian roulette
Author
Series
Alex Rider adventures volume 10
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Presented with an unexpected assignment, Alex Rider's greatest nemesis, Yassen Gregoravich, recalls his life and the path that led him to become an assassin while his one-time friend, Alex's uncle, became a spy.
Author
Series
100 dresses volume 3
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Darling and her friends locate Queen Candace's wedding slippers, which Princess Mariposa wants to wear on her own wedding day, unaware that they are laced with magic.
Author
Series
Alex Rider adventures volume 4
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
After a chance encounter with assassin Yassen Gregorovich in the South of France, teenage spy Alex Rider investigates international pop star and philanthropist Damian Cray whose new video game venture hides sinister motives involving Air Force One, nuclear missiles, and the international drug trade.
97) Remarkables
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
A wordless picture book in which a boy meets an orphaned mermaid and invites her to join his circus family.
98) The robber girl
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Publisher Annotation: Part literary mystery, part magical tour de force-an incantatory novel of fierce beauty, lyricism, and originality.
99) Now you say yes
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Publisher Annotation: Award-winning author and storyteller Bill Harley returns with an unforgettable middle grade novel about two orphaned siblings on a cross-country journey in search of their place in the world.
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old orphan Adia, a kitchen apprentice at the Academy of Shamans who has mysterious powers, embarks on an epic adventure through hidden realms when she discovers the kingdom’s emperor is possessed by a demon — and he’s on his way to the Academy for a visit.
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