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Splendors and glooms
by Laura Amy Schlitz
Ages 9 - 12
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When Clara vanishes after the puppeteer Grisini and two orphaned assistants were at her twelfth birthday party, suspicion of kidnapping chases the trio away from London and soon the two orphans are caught in a trap set by Grisini's ancient rival, a witchwith a deadly inheritance to shed before it is too late.
The false prince
by Jennifer A Nielsen
Ages 10 and up
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In the country of Carthya, a devious nobleman engages four orphans in a brutal competition to be selected to impersonate the king's long-missing son in an effort to avoid a civil war.
City of orphans
by Avi
Ages 10 and up
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In 1893 New York, thirteen-year-old Maks, a newsboy, teams up with Willa, a homeless girl, to clear his older sister, Emma, from charges that she stole from the brand new Waldorf Hotel, where she works.
Jack Blank and the Imagine Nation
by Matt Myklusch
Ages 9 - 12
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Twelve-year-old Jack, freed from a dismal orphanage, makes his way to the elusive and impossible Imagine Nation, where a mentor saves him from dissection and trains him to use his superpower, despite the virus he carries that makes him a threat.
Bird in a box
by Andrea Davis Pinkney
Ages 9 - 12
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In 1936, three children meet at the Mercy Home for Negro Orphans in New York State, and while not all three are orphans, they are all dealing with grief and loss which together they manage to overcome.
The Emerald Atlas
by John Stephens
Ages 9 - 12
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Kate, Michael, and Emma have been in orphanages for the last ten years. Yet these kids are more remarkable than they could possibly imagine. Ripped from their parents as babies, they are being protected from a horrible evil of devastating power, an evil they know nothing about.
Until now.
The ghost of Crutchfield Hall
by Mary Downing Hahn
Ages 9 - 12
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In the nineteenth century, ten-year-old Florence Crutchfield leaves a London orphanage to live with her great-uncle, great-aunt, and sickly cousin James, but she soon realizes the home has another resident, who means to do her and James harm.
Molly Moon & the morphing mystery
by Georgia Byng
Ages 9 - 12
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Having acquired the skill of morphing, Molly Moon can inhabit any creature she wants but, unless she can find the ancient book of hypnotism in time, she risks never getting back into her own body.
Take me with you
by Carolyn Marsden
Ages 9 - 12
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Raised in an Italian orphanage in the years following World War II, a biracial girl named Susanna and her best friend Pina want to be adopted but fear being separated.
The mysterious howling
by Maryrose Wood
Ages 9 - 12
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Fifteen-year-old Miss Penelope Lumley, a recent graduate of the Swanburne Academy for Poor Bright Females, is hired as governess to three young children who have been raised by wolves.
Book 1 of The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place
