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61) Oliver Twist
Author
Series
Everyman's library volume 110
Language
English
Description
In nineteenth-century England, a young orphan boy lives in the squalid surroundings of a workhouse until he becomes involved with a gang of thieves.
62) Shades of gray
Author
Publisher
Macmillan
Pub. Date
c1989
Language
English
Description
At the end of the Civil War, twelve-year-old Will, having lost all his immediate family, reluctantly leaves his city home to live in the Virginia countryside with his aunt and the uncle he considers a traitor because he refused to take part in the war.
Author
Series
Series of unfortunate events) volume 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Baudelaire orphans disguise themselves as employees of the Hotel Denoument and find themselves pursued by the evil Count Olaf and by others.
Author
Publisher
Tokyopop
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Kyo decides to confront his birth father and is pressured to accept an unwanted truth, and as the curse continues to lose its grip on the members of the Zodiac, Akito loses her control over the Sohma family and worries that she may go insane.
Author
Series
Boxcar children mysteries volume 35
Publisher
A. Whitman
Pub. Date
c1993
Language
English
Description
The Alden children suspect someone of trying to sabotage the local dog show.
67) Midnight rider
Author
Publisher
M.K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
In Boston in 1775, orphaned fourteen-year-old Hannah is indentured to the family of a British general and begins attending secret meetings disguised as a boy, then passing messages and warnings to the revolutionaries using her beloved horse Promise.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
Far from her native Philadelphia, Miss Jane Peck continues to prove that she's more than an etiquette-schooled graduate of Miss Hepplewhite's Young Ladies Academy as she braves the untamed wilderness of Washington Territory in the mid 1850s.
69) Spitfire
Author
Publisher
North Country Books
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
In October of 1776, two twelve-year-olds meet on a ship on Lake Champlain--Abigail, disguised as a boy while seeking her only living relative, and Pascal, brought aboard by his stepfather, the captain--and forge a fast friendship while serving together as soldiers.
70) Les miserables
Author
Series
Publisher
Udon Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
In a new graphic novel adaptation, escaped convict Jean Valjean risks his freedom to take care of a motherless young girl during a period of political unrest in Paris while Inspector Javert relentlessly pursues him for a minor crime.
72) Bowery girl
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
Two orphaned teenage girls in New York's tenements in 1883 realize that their dream of saving enough money to move to Brooklyn across the newly-built bridge may be achieved if they learn new trades at a nearby settlement house, rather than continuing their lives of prostitution and stealing.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the experiences of an orphaned Amerasian boy from his birth and early childhood in Saigon through his departure from Vietnam in the 1975 Operation Babylift and his subsequent life as the adopted son of an American family in Ohio.
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