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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Dave at night	Carson Levine,Gail Carson Levine	When orphaned Dave is sent to the Hebrew Home for Boys where he is treated cruelly, he sneaks out at night and is welcomed into the music- and culture-filled world of the Harlem Renaissance.	OL14370W
Disappearing act	Sid Fleischman	After their archaeologist mother fails to return from Mexico and they discover that someone is stalking their Albuquerque house, twelve-year-old Kevin and his opera-singing older sister flee to Venic…	OL14957879W
The Dinosaur Mystery	Gertrude Chandler Warner,Charles Tang	When the Aldens go to the Pickering Natural History Museum to assist with the opening of a dinosaur exhibit, their work is hampered by a series of mysterious happenings.	OL15061148W
The Ghost Ship Mystery	Gertrude Chandler Warner,Charles Tang,Aimee Lilly	While visiting the seaport town of Ragged Cove, Massachusetts, the Alden children find the ship's log of the Flying Cloud, shipwrecked in 1869, supposedly during a mutiny.	OL15061157W
Tempting fate	Meryl Sawyer	Arizona journalist Kelly Taylor's heart shattered when her husband died in a plane crash. Only then did she learn that he had a child, abandoned in a Venezuelan orphanage. Determined to rescue the bo…	OL15565797W
Who Killed Darius Drake?	Rodman Philbrick	182 pages ; 22 cm	OL17798853W
The bean trees, with related readings	Barbara Kingsolver	p. cm	OL1846833W
Anne of Green Gables	Mariah Marsden	Anne, an eleven-year-old orphan, is sent by mistake to live with a lonely, middle-aged brother and sister on a Prince Edward Island farm and proceeds to make an indelible impression on everyone aroun…	OL19719464W
The Pack	Kate Ormand	Horse shifter Flo now travels in a wild pack with what remains of the shape-shifter circus she once performed in. She, bear shifter Jett, and the others seek a new home somewhere they can feel safe a…	OL19721831W
The road to ever after	Moira Young	Ordered to leave his hometown, young Davy, an orphaned artist, escorts elderly Miss Flint to her childhood home, where she plans to die.	OL19722957W
The Guineveres	Sarah Domet	"In the vein of The Virgin Suicides, a dazzling debut novel about four girls inexplicably named Guinevere, all left by their parents to be raised by nuns"--	OL20036169W
Highland spy	Madeline Martin	Ariana Fitzroy is destitute, orphaned, and completely alone, and cheats at cards to survive. When Connor Grant catches her in the act, he threatens to expose her, unless she joins his elite roster of…	OL20051877W
Beck	Meg Rosoff,Mal Peet	Born of a brief encounter between a Liverpool prostitute and an African soldier in 1907, Beck finds himself orphaned as a young boy and sent overseas to the Catholic Brothers in Canada. At age fiftee…	OL20057429W
Pollyanna	Eleanor Hodgman Porter	282 pages : 20 cm	OL20789612W
Oliver Twist [adaptation]	Holman Wang,Jack Wang	1 volume (unpaged) : 19 cm	OL21141662W
Living a Lie	Josephine Cox	391 pages ; 20 cm	OL21142927W
Bayou Born	Hailey Edwards	329 pages ; 20 cm	OL21150000W
Boy with the Latch Key (Halfpenny Orphans, Book 4)	Cathy Sharp	403 pages ; 20 cm	OL26331144W
The Secret Tomb	Maurice Leblanc	<p>When Dorothy, ropedancer and palmist, arrives at the Château de Roborey with her circus, she’s already observed strange excavations at the grounds. Fate reveals a familial connection and drags her…	OL27292283W
Spring Pearl	Laurence Yep	Called boyish by her new family for being able to read and write, twelve-year-old, orphaned Spring Pearl's "odd ways" help save the family during the 1857 Opium War in Canton, China.	OL451114W