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HeroesAfter joining the army at fifteen and having his face blown away by a grenade in a battle in France, Francis returns home to Frenchtown hoping to find--and kill--the former childhood hero he feels bet |
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Tangled ThreadsAfter ten years in a refugee camp in Thailand, thirteen-year-old Mai Yang travels to Rhode Island, where her Americanized cousins introduce her to pizza, shopping, and beer, while her grandmother keep |
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RunawaysBrooke, Crystal, Raven, and Butterfly know they can't take any more abuse from their foster parents, so the girls develop a plan to run away and start their lives over again in California. |
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OrphansCollected in a single volume are four of V.C. Andrews novels of orphan heroines. |
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The Callender PapersIn nineteenth-century Massachusetts, orphaned Jean, employed to sort out the family papers of a reclusive artist, becomes curious about the mysterious, long-ago death of his wife and the subsequent di |
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CrispinFalsely accused of theft and murder, an orphaned peasant boy in fourteenth-century England flees his village and meets a larger-than-life juggler who holds a dangerous secret. |
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A Sea So FarAfter surviving the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fires, two teenage girls, a wealthy semi-invalid and her hired companion, travel together to Ireland and discover they share much in common, from |
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Spring-heeled JackThree children make their escape from a London orphanage and after a series of misadventures are reunited with their father through the efforts of the legendary Spring-Heeled Jack. |
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Miracle's BoysTwelve-year-old Lafayette's close relationship with his older brother Charlie changes after Charlie is released from a detention home and blames Lafayette for the death of their mother. |
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The Wild ChildrenLeft behind when his family is arrested by soldiers during the dark days following the Bolshevik Revolution, twelve-year-old Alex falls in with a gang of other desperate homeless children, but never l |
