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The Magician’s Elephant

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Kate DiCamillo ; illustrated by Yoko Tanaka
Publication Details
Book, 1st ed, Candlewick Press, 2009
Description
In a highly awaited new novel, Kate DiCamillo conjures a haunting fable about trusting the unexpected ? When a fortuneteller’s tent appears in the market square of the city of Baltese, orphan Peter Augustus Duchene knows the questions that he needs to ask: Does his sister still live? (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Orphans · Juvenile fiction · Missing children · Elephants · Brothers and sisters · Fiction · Adventure and adventurers · DiCamillo, Kate · Tanaka, Yoko
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The Prince Of Fenway Park

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Julianna Baggott
Publication Details
Book, 1st ed, HarperCollins, 2009
Description
Someone deliberately jinxed the team, and the secret to breaking the Curse lies deep below Fenway Park, with Oscar’s dad and the Cursed Creatures, a group that has been doomed to live out their miserable lives below Fenway until the Curse is broken. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Boston Red Sox (Baseball team) · Juvenile fiction · Fenway Park (Boston, Mass.) · Fiction · Orphans · Fathers and sons · Time travel · Supernatural · Baseball · Baggott, Julianna
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The Amaranth Enchantment

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Julie Berry
Publication Details
Book, 1st U.S. ed, Bloomsbury, 2009
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- Publisher description
Description
In this magical story filled with delightful surprises, Lucinda will dance at the royal ball, fall under the Amaranth Witch?s spell, avenge her parents? (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Orphans · Juvenile fiction · Princes · Extraterrestrial beings · Fantasy · Fiction · Berry, Julie
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The Desperado Who Stole Baseball

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John H. Ritter
Publication Details
Book, Philomel Books, 2009
Description
Dillontown was built upon a gold mine. Fortunately, Dillontown is home to two boys who know a little something about winning. One is young Jack Dillon, nephew to Dillontown founder Long John Dillon. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Billy, · the Kid · Juvenile fiction · Fiction · Baseball · History · Orphans · Frontier and pioneer life · California · 1850-1950 · Ritter, John H., 1951-
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Peace, Locomotion

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Jacqueline Woodson
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Book, G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 2009
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Twelve-year-old Lonnie is fi nally feeling at home with his foster family. he?s happy that he and Lili have new families, but though his new family brings him joy, it also brings new worries. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Foster home care · Fiction · Brothers and sisters · Orphans · Peace · African Americans · Letters · Woodson, Jacqueline
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The Good Thief : A Novel

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by Hannah Tinti
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Book, Dial Press, 2008
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Richly imagined, gothically spooky, and replete with the ingenious storytelling ability of a born novelist, The Good Thief introduces one of the most appealing young heroes in contemporary fiction and ratifies Hannah Tinti as one of our most exciting new talents. But then a young man named Benjamin Nab appears, claiming to be Ren?s long-lost brother, and his convincing tale of how Ren lost his hand and his parents persuades the monks at the orphanage to release the boy and to give Ren some hope. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Orphans · Fiction · New England · United States · History · 1783-1865 · Tinti, Hannah
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(UPPER LEVEL) PS3620.I56 G66 2008 AVAILABLE

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The Graveyard Book

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Neil Gaiman ; with illustrations by Dave McKean
Publication Details
Book, 1st ed, HarperCollins Publishers, 2008
Description
Raised from infancy by the ghosts, werewolves, and other cemetery denizens, Bod has learned the antiquated customs of his guardians’ time as well as their timely ghostly teachings-like the ability to Fade. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Dead · Juvenile fiction · Supernatural · Cemeteries · Fiction · Orphans · Gaiman, Neil · McKean, Dave
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A Curse Dark As Gold

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Elizabeth C. Bunce
Publication Details
Book, 1st ed, Arthur A. Levine Books, 2008
Description
Something pulled out from the brown straw and through his knobby fingers, and where it should have gone onto the spindle, the finest strands of gleaming gold threads appeared. I don’t know how long we watched it, turning and turning, flashing gold with every revolution. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Mills and mill-work · Juvenile fiction · Blessing and cursing · Uncles · Orphans · Sisters · Ghosts · Fiction · Bunce, Elizabeth C
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Way Down Deep

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Ruth White
Publication Details
Book, 1st ed, Farrar Straus Giroux, 2007
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Although Ruby seemed to just appear out of thin air on the steps of the courthouse on the first day of summer in 1944, no one in Way Down Deep, West Virginia, ever worried too much about where the toddler came from. But when Ruby is twelve, a new family moves to Way Down Deep, and they inadvertently provide enough clues about Ruby?s past that she is able to find her own people. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Foundlings · Juvenile fiction · Community life · Identity (Psychology) · Orphans · Fiction · West Virginia · Identity · History · 1951- · White, Ruth, 1942-
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Ellen Foster

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Kaye Gibbons
Publication Details
Book, Vintage Books, 1997
Description
So begins the tale of Ellen Foster, the brave and engaging heroine of Kay Gibbons’s first novel, which won the Sue Kaufman Prize from the American Academy of Institute of Arts and Letters. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Children of alcoholics · Southern States · Fiction · Orphans · Gibbons, Kaye, 1960-
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(UPPER LEVEL) PS3557.I13917 E4 1997 AVAILABLE

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The Willoughbys

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Lois Lowry
Publication Details
Book, Houghton Mifflin, 2008
Description
Abandoned by their ill-humored parents to the care of an odious nanny, Tim, the twins, Barnaby A and Barnaby B, and their sister, Jane, attempt to fulfill their roles as good oldfashioned children. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Orphans · Juvenile fiction · Brothers and sisters · Fiction · Family life · Humorous stories · Lowry, Lois
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Before Green Gables

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Budge Wilson
Publication Details
Book, Putnam, 2008
Description
Before Green Gables is the story of Anne Shirley’s life before her arrival at Green Gables-a heartwarming tale of a precocious child whose lively imagination and relentless spirit help her to overcome difficult circumstances and of a young girl’s ability to love, learn, and above all, dream. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Shirley, Anne (Fictitious character) · Fiction · Orphans · Fiction. · sears · Halifax (N.S.) · Prince Edward Island · Wilson, Budge · Montgomery, L. M. 1874-1942
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The Scarlet Stockings : The Enchanted Riddle

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Charlotte Kandel
Publication Details
Book, 1st ed, Dutton Children’s Books, 2007
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When a book containing a tantalizing riddle and a magical pair of stockings arrive, her dreams of glory and fame are suddenly within her grasp. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Orphans · Juvenile fiction · Ballet · Riddles · Magic · Mothers and daughters · Fiction · London (England) · History · 20th century · Great Britain · Edward VII, 1901-1910 · Juvenile fiction · Paris (France) · France · Third Republic, 1870-1940 · Kandel, Charlotte
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Good Enough To Eat

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Brock Cole
Publication Details
Book, Farrar Straus Giroux, 2007
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- Publisher description
Description
But this brave and clever girl manages to outwit the Ogre and all the townspeople, too, earning a purse full of gold, a fine sharp sword, and most important, a fitting name for herself: Good-Enough-to-Eat. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Orphans · Juvenile fiction · Homeless persons · Ghouls and ogres · Fiction · Cole, Brock
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The Annotated Secret Garden

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Frances Hodgson Burnett ; edited with an introduction and notes by Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina
Publication Details
Book, 1st ed, W.W. Norton, 2007
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- Table of contents only
Description
Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina, the author of the definitive biography of Burnett, brings out aspects of Burnett’s life that led her to write the book, details of the Victorian England time period, attitudes toward children, and Burnett’s spiritual leanings. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Orphans · Fiction · Friendship · Sick children · Yorkshire (England) · Burnett, Frances Hodgson, 1849-1924 · Gerzina, Gretchen
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