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"An orphan grapples with gender, siblinghood, family, and coming-of-age as a Muslim in America in this lyrical debut novel that "shimmers with love" (Los Angeles Times), from the acclaimed author of If They Come For Us "Haunting . . . a knife-sharp story of self-discovery."-People In this heartrending, lyrical debut work of fiction, Fatimah Asghar traces the intense bond of three orphaned siblings who, after their parents die, are left to raise...
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"A cinematic debut set in the American West about a scrappy orphan bent on making her own luck—and finding friendship, romance, and her true calling along the way “Queer, feminist, subversive, and a good old-fashioned freight train of an adventure story.”٬٢٠١٤؛Sara Nović, author of True Biz The heart wants what it wants. Saddle up, ride out, and claim it. It’s the spring of 1877 and sixteen-year-old Bridget is already disillusioned...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 18
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English
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Two decades after a pair of orphaned brothers are separated when one of them flees after a murder accusation, the runaway brother, now a seasoned killer, returns to North Carolina to protect his brother and solve the mystery of their past.
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Lucky Santangelo series volume Prequel
Pub. Date
2014.
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English
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"Lucky Santangelo. A fifteen-year-old wild child ready to discover life, love and independence. Daughter of the notorious Gino, Lucky discovers her mother's murdered body floating in the family swimming pool at the tender age of four. Since then Gino has kept her protected from life closeted in their Bel Air mansion. But in Confessions of a Wild Child Lucky finally breaks free, and running away from boarding school the adventures begin. Boys, sex,...
86) The white order
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Series
Saga of Recluce volume 8
Publisher
TOR
Pub. Date
c1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 22
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English
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After Cerryl's parents are killed by powerful white mages, he is adopted by a family that notices that his father's keen magical ability has been passed on, and they eventually send Cerryl to the city of Fairhaven to find his destiny as a great magician.
87) Buddha's orphans
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Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
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Raja and Nilu are fated to fall in love. Follow their story across the globe and through generations to see if, perhaps, old bends in a family tree may be righted in future branches.
88) Bone and bread
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Publisher
House Of Anansi Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
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When sisters Beena and Sadhana are orphaned as teenagers and sent to live with their Sikh uncle in Montreal's Hasidic community, their lives take divergent courses as they deal with their grief in different ways.
89) Intrigues
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Series
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Daw Books
Pub. Date
c2010
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English
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When Mags (Magpie), a thirteen-year-old orphan chosen by one of the magical Companion horses of Valdemar and taken to the capital city, she is "recognized" by foreign secret operatives whose purpose is unknown, and then comes under suspicion.
91) Blessed
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Series
Tantalize series volume 3
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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With a wink and a nod to Bram Stoker, New York Times best-selling author Cynthia Leitich Smith unites the casts of Tantalize and Eternal in a delicious dark fantasy her fans will devour.Quincie P. Morris, teen restaurateuse and neophyte vampire, is in the fight of her life -- or undeath. Even as she adjusts to her new appetites, she must clear her best friend and true love, the hybrid werewolf Kieren, of murder charges; thwart the apocalyptic ambitions...
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G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2019]
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English
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Longing to escape from the eighteenth-century music orphanage in Venice where she has lived her entire life, talented singer Violetta bonds with Mino, a gifted violinist who flees from the orphanage to find his missing mother.
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Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2016]
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English
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Describes the lives of two orphan girls, one from the Caucasus who is sold into the sex trade, the other who is adopted into the wealthy Zane family of New York, whose unwitting involvement in the world of international crime precipitates their downfall.
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"A hauntingly powerful and emotionally charged novel about family secrets, love and loss, identity and belonging. Two children trapped in the same attic, almost a century apart, bound by a shared secret. Early 1900s London: Taken from his homeland, twelve-year-old Celestine spends most of the time locked away in the attic of a large house by the sea. The only time Celestine isn’t bound by confines of the small space is when he is acting as an...
100) Changes
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Publisher
DAW Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
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The orphan Magpie pursues his quest for his parents' identity with burning urgency--while also discovering another hidden talent and being trained as an undercover agent. Shy Bardic Trainee Lena has to face her famous but uncaring father, one of Valdemar's most renowned Bards. And Healing Trainee Bear must struggle against his disapproving parents, who are pressuring Bear to quit the Healers' Collegium because he lacks the magical Healing Gift.
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