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"Members of Hanger's Horsemen, Mark Wallace and Jonah Brooks arrive in Llano County, Texas, to deliver a steed, never expecting they'd deliver a baby as well. Left with an infant to care for, they head to a nearby foundling home, where Mark encounters the woman he'd nearly married a decade ago. After failing at love, Katherine Palmer dedicated her life to caring for children, teaming up with Eliza Southerland to start Harmony House. From mixed ancestry,...
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Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 14
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Janusz Korczak was more than a good doctor. He was a hero. The Dr. Spock of his day, he established orphanages run on his principle of honoring children and shared his ideas with the public in books and on the radio. He famously said that "children are not the people of tomorrow, but people today." Korczak was a man ahead of his time, whose work ultimately became the basis for the U.N. Declaration of the Rights of the Child. Korczak was also a Polish...
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[2018]
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"This is the story of my childhood in Brazil, about the culture shock I experienced when I arrived in the forests of northern Sweden and about the loss of the people I loved most. It's about what I remember of my childhood in the Brazilian wilderness, on the streets of Sô Paulo, in the orphanage. And it's about my early days in Sweden, when I found myself dropped into a place and life that couldn't have been in sharper contrast to what I had known"--Back...
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c2012
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The Three Stooges (Moe, Larry, Curly) are on a mission. Left on the doorstep of an Orphanage run by nuns, the young trio grows up finger-poking, nyuk-nyuking and woo-woo-wooing their way into trouble. Now years later, with the Orphanage forced to close its doors, the Three Stooges embark on a wacky mission to save the it. Hilarious Mischief and Mayhem ensues.
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Night and its moon volume 1
Pub. Date
[2022]
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"Farleigh is just an orphanage. At least, that's what the church would have the people believe, but beautiful orphans Nox and fae-touched Amaris know better. They are commodities for sale, available for purchase by the highest bidder. So when the madame of a notorious brothel in a far-off city offers a king's ransom to purchase Amaris, Nox ends up taking her place -- while Amaris is drawn away to the mountains, home of mysterious assassins. Even as...
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Daughters of Jacob Kane volume 2
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c2009
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"Maggie Rose, Jacob Kane's middle daughter, moves to New York City to work at an orphanage, where she nurtures needy children and falls in love with a newspaper reporter whose lack of Christian faith and painful past create various obstacles to overcome--by the grace of God"--Provided by publisher.
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2023.
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"The clock is ticking for Superintendent Jo Hamilton, who is just days from retirement from Sussex Police when the discovery of the bones of a young woman takes her back to a tragic unsolved case she worked on as WPC in the 1970s: the disappearance of a teenage girl from a notorious local children's home, not long after another young resident died in suspicious circumstances. Jo is determined track down the victim's sister, convinced that re-opening...
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2018.
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"Learning that her grandmother was a victim of the corrupt Tennessee Children's Home Society, attorney and aspiring politician Avery Stafford delves into her family's past and begins to wonder if some things are best kept secret."--Publisher.
Una conmovedora novela inspirada en el escándalo real de la organización de adopciones que durante treinta años secuestró y vendió niños desfavorecidos a familias acomodadas por todo el país.
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Miss Peregrine volume 3
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[2015]
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Time is running out for the Peculiar Children. With a dangerous madman on the loose and their beloved Miss Peregrine still in danger, Jacob Portman and Emma Bloom are forced to stage the most daring of rescue missions. They'll travel through a war-torn landscape, meet new allies, and face greater dangers than ever.
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Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 10
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Practically-perfect twelve-year-old Victoria Wright must lie, sneak, and break the rules when her investigation of the disappearance of her best--and only--friend, Lawrence, reveals dark secrets about her town and the orphanage run by the reclusive Mrs. Cavendish.
97) All my tomorrows
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c2003
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In New York City in 1876, ten-year-old Teddy Hansen is left at the orphanage by his dying mother. When police officer Justin Smith is killed by bank robbers, his son Johnny is taken there, too. As overcrowded conditions threaten to force them into the streets, the two boys, along with abandoned twins Donna and Deena Mitchell, board an orphan train soon leaving for the West.
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Miss Peregrine volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 12
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With his dying words, H entrusts Jacob with a mission: Deliver newly-contacted peculiar Noor Pradesh to an operative known only as V. Noor is being hunted. She is the subject of an ancient prophecy, one that foretells a looming apocalypse. With only a few bewildering clues to follow, Jacob must figure out how to find V, the most enigmatic, and most powerful, of Abe's former associates. But V is in hiding and she never, ever, wants to be found.
99) Evelyn
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2002.
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The true story of Desmond Doyle who fights to win back his children after they are sent to a Dublin orphanage when his wife leaves him, and abandons their children.
100) Orphan eleven
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[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 8
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In 1939, after cruel treatment at her orphanage renders her mute, Lucy runs away and joins the circus, working with the elephants and unaware that the orphanage matrons are hunting for her.