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Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
"Witches have been banned from Arrett for years. Which is why Milly has tried to ignore the tingling light that appears in her palm anytime she conjures up a wish. She has too many responsibilities as the oldest girl at St. George's Orphanage to get caught up in magicks. Sweet, quirky Cilla, though, has always longed for that power, even if it could be dangerous for her. Milly has always kept an eye out for her, but then, in a case of mistaken identity,...
Author
Pub. Date
2018
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 13
Description
"It's 1941, and tensions are rising in the United States as the Second World War rages in Europe. Eleven-year-old Gusta's life, like the world around her, is about to change. Her father, a foreign-born labor organizer, has had to flee the country, and Gusta has been sent to live in an orphanage run by her grandmother. Nearsighted, snaggletoothed Gusta arrives in Springdale, Maine, lugging her one precious possession: a beloved old French horn, her...
123) The three stooges
Pub. Date
[2012]
Description
Left on the doorstep of an orphanage run by nuns, the Three Stooges (Moe, Larry, Curly) grow up finger-poking, nyuk-nyuking, and woo-woo-wooing their way into trouble. Now years later, with the orphanage forced to close its doors, they're on a mission to save it.
124) Operation Oleander
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Seventh-grader Jess and her friends establish the Order of the Oleander to collect supplies for an orphanage in Kabul, Afghanistan, where two of their parents are deployed, but when disaster strikes and many blame the Order, Jess must find a way to go on.
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Appears on list
Description
"A magical island. A dangerous task. A burning secret. Linus Baker leads a quiet, solitary life. At forty, he lives in a tiny house with a devious cat and his old records. As a Case Worker at the Department in Charge Of Magical Youth, he spends his days overseeing the well-being of children in government-sanctioned orphanages. When Linus is unexpectedly summoned by Extremely Upper Management he's given a curious and highly classified assignment: travel...
126) Wonder show
Author
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 9
Description
"Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, step inside Mosco's Traveling Wonder Show, a menagerie of human curiosities and misfits guaranteed to astound and amaze! But perhaps the strangest act of Mosco's display is Portia Remini, a normal among the freaks, on the run from McGreavy's Home for Wayward Girls, where Mister watches and waits. He said he would always find Portia, that she could never leave. Free at last, Portia begins a new life on the bally,...
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
Lillian and Grace are sisters who open an orphanage in the 1916 Western town of Brookfield. As the two are caught between the traditions of cattle ranchers and the ambitions of a growing town, they strive to find romance and happiness while overcoming the challenges of helping the children in their care. Throughout their journey, they discover community, acceptance and love as they create the family they always longed to have.
128) Annie live!
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
The iconic musical follows smart and spirited little orphan Annie, whose whole life changes when larger-than-life billionaire Daddy Warbucks takes her away from an orphanage run by the mean Miss Hannigan.
Author
Series
Promised neverland volume 3
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
In order to escape the orphanage whe"re they are being raised as food for demons, Emma, Norman, and Ray begin recruiting allies. But convincing the other children to believe them may not be an easy task." --Page [4] of cover.
130) La ciudad desolada
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2016.
Description
September 3, 1940, ten peculiar children flee an army of deadly monsters. Only one person can help them, but she's trapped in the body of a bird. The extraordinary journey that began in Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children continues as Jacob Portman and his newfound friends journey to London, the peculiar capital of the world. There, they hope to find a cure for their beloved headmistress, Miss Peregrine. In this war-torn city, hideous surprises...
131) Sunny: v. 1
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2011]
Description
"The story of an orphanage, the children who live in it, and the beat-up old Nissan Sunny 1200 which provides a trio of boys with a means of escape from their bleak everyday lives."--MangaHere.com review.
132) Annie
Pub. Date
2000
Description
The story of the comic strip character Little Orphan Annie, who is adopted by billionaire "Daddy" Warbucks.
Pub. Date
2011.
Description
Olden days coat: When Sal find out that she'll be trading time with her playmates for Christmas at her Grandmother's house, she is less tan enthusiastic. But when she discovers a magical coat in her Grandmothers attic, her holiday becomes much more exciting ; Song for the season: When Cal and his niece move to Bethlehem, Kentucky, they are lacking Christmas spirit. But when they meet the lovely music teacher Lily Waite, both Cal and fern have a change...
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Appears on list
Description
Chika Jeune was born three days before the devastating earthquake that decimated Haiti in 2010. She spent her infancy in a landscape of extreme poverty, and when her mother died giving birth to a baby brother, Chika was brought to The Have Faith Haiti Orphanage that Albom operates in Port Au Prince. With no children of their own, the forty-plus children who live, play, and go to school at the orphanage have become family to Mitch and his wife, Janine....
135) The Orphanage
Pub. Date
[2008]
Description
Laura decides to purchase her beloved childhood orphanage with dreams of restoring and reopening the long abandoned facility as a place for disabled children. The new environment awakens the imagination of Laura's son. His ongoing fantasy games played with an invisible friend quickly turn into something more disturbing. Upon seeing her family increasingly threatened by the strange occurrences in the house, Laura looks to a group of parapsychologists...
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