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Promise me tomorrow
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Lori Wick |
Katherine Taggert—nicknamed “Rusty” for her curly red hair—shines like a ray of sunshine at her aunt and uncle’s orphanage. Unaccustomed to traveling alone in the pioneer West, Rusty is accompanied o… |
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Captive at the Sicilian billionaire's command
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Penny Jordan |
Rocco Leopardi's demand is nonnegotiable: Julie Simmonds must bring his little nephew to Sicily so that the child may take his rightful place as a Leopardi!At first Rocco thought Julie would be a gol… |
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Thirteen days to midnight
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Patrick Carman |
*You are indestructible.* These are the words that transfer an astonishing power to Jacob Fielding...and it changes everything. After all, there's something addictive about testing the limits of fear… |
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Peace, Locomotion
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Jacqueline Woodson |
Twelve-year-old Lonnie is fi nally feeling at home with his foster family. But because he's living apart from his little sister, Lili, he decides it's his job to be the "rememberer"—and write down ev… |
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Tink
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Bodil Bredsdorff |
Feeling as thought he does not belong there, Tink leaves Crow Cove, only to return with the drunken Burd, who teaches Tink to fish and to have confidence in himself and his place in the community. |
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The Disappearing Staircase Mystery
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Gertrude Chandler Warner,Hodges Soileau |
When the Alden children join a group of volunteers to fix up an old house for senior citizens, they try to explain the puzzling behavior of their coworkers as well as investigate some unusual events. |
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The Movie Star Mystery
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Gertrude Chandler Warner,Charles Tang |
The Aldens investigate when the arrival of several suspicious characters in Greenfield coincides with a mystery involving a popular boy actor. |
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The Mystery of the Lost Village
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Gertrude Chandler Warner,Charles Tang |
While visiting a Navaho Indian reservation in New Mexico, the Aldens try to save a forest under threat of development by proving it is the site of a lost, buried village, but someone is sabotaging th… |
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The Mystery of the Stolen Boxcar
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Gertrude Chandler Warner,Charles Tang |
One warm night four children stood in front of a bakery. No one knew them. No one knew where they had come from. Henry, Jessie, Violet, and Benny used to live alone in a boxcar. Now they have a home … |
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The Mystery in the Snow
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Gertrude Chandler Warner,Charles Tang |
When the Alden children accompany their grandfather to the Snow Haven Lodge, a series of odd occurrences threaten to disrupt the annual winter games. |
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Finding Hattie
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Sally Warner |
In 1882 Hattie, a fourteen-year-old orphan, joins her cousin Sophie in attending boarding school at Miss Bulkley's Seminary for Young Ladies in Tarrytown, New York, and tries to find her place in the… |
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Ragged Dick
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Horatio Alger, Jr. |
"Ragged Dick" was contributed as a serial story to the pages of the Schoolmate, a well-known juvenile magazine, during the year 1867. While in course of publication, it was received with so many evid… |
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Our John Willie
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Catherine Cookson |
When Davie and John Willie Halliday lose their father in a mine cave-in, the orphans are left to fend for themselves. Twelve-year-old Davie finds shelter for himself and John Willie, a deaf mute, on … |
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Who will take care of me?
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Patricia Hermes |
Terrified that the death of the grandmother who was their guardian will separate them, twelve-year-old Mark decides to run away with his retarded younger brother. |
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The Stowaway
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R. A. Salvatore |
A twelve-year-old orphan who possesses a stone that brings good luck to its owner runs afoul of a terrifying half-demon, but finds an ally in the elf Drizzt Do'Urden. |
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Voyage of midnight
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Michele Torrey |
In the early nineteenth century, when his sea-captain uncle invites him to assist the ship's surgeon on his next voyage, orphaned, fourteen-and-a-half-year-old Phillip, eager to be with family, accep… |
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The Supernaturalist (Infinite)
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Giovanni Rigano,Andrew Donkin,Eoin Colfer,Paolo Lamanna |
Fourteen-year-old Cosmo Hill longs to escape from the Clarissa Frayne Institute for Parentally Challenged Boys. When a rare chance to get away comes, he grabs it, but the attempt goes fatally wrong. … |
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Dragon and Slave
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Timothy Zahn |
Fourteen-year-old Jack and the dragon warrior Draycos face a diabolical and ruthless intergalactic slavemaster when Jack attempts to penetrate secret computer files about the cold-blooded underworld … |
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Ark Angel
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Anthony Horowitz |
The sniper's bullet nearly killed him. But Alex Rider managed to survive...just in time for more trouble to come his way. When kidnappers attempt to snatch a fellow patient from the exclusive hospita… |
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Come back, Lucy
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Pamela Sykes |
The mirror looked ordinary. It had a heavy gold frame and leaned against the wall in the attic. But when Lucy first looked into the mirror, a strange thing happened. Another girl's face appeared besi… |
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