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Orphans

The End

Lemony Snicket

Lost at sea, the Baudelaire orphans, along with the evil Count Olaf, wash up on the shore of an island populated by an oddly placid group of inhabitants, and they try to decide whether or not they are

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Great Expectations

Charles Dickens

After harsh early years, Pip, an orphan growing up in Victorian England, is given the means to become a gentleman by an unknown benefactor and learns that outward appearances can be deceiving.

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Gilbert & Sullivan Set Me Free

Kathleen Karr

During the early 1900s, a teenaged inmate's dreary life at Massachusetts's Sherborn Prison for Women changes for the better after she becomes a member of the prison choir and participates in the produ

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Gathering Blue

Lois Lowry

Lame and suddenly orphaned, Kira is mysteriously removed from her squalid village to live in the palatial Council Edifice, where she is expected to use her gifts as a weaver to do the bidding of the a

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Crow Lake

Mary Lawson

Kate Morrison, orphaned at the age of seven, grows up seeing her brilliant older brother Matt's failure to further his education as a tragedy, and feeling somewhat guilty about her own accomplishments

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Buddha Boy

Kathe Koja

Justin spends time with Jinsen, the unusual and artistic new student whom the school bullies torment and call Buddha Boy, and ends up making choices that impact Jinsen, himself, and the entire school.

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The Last Chance Texaco

Brent Hartinger

Troubled teen Lucy Pitt struggles to fit in as a new tenant at a last-chance foster home.

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Fruits Basket

Natsuki Takaya

Akito makes an appearance at the start of the school year worrying the Sohma family that Akito's motives are less than honorable.

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Fruits Basket

Natsuki Takaya

Tohru Honda, taken in by the Sohma family after the death of her mother, learns that each member of the Sohma family is possessed by the vengeful spirit of an animal from the Chinese zodiac that mades

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Fruits Basket

Natsuki Takaya

Tohru and company spend Golden Week at the Sohmas' vacation home, courtesy of Shigure. On the final day, Hatsuharu makes a surprise visit, but what other surprises has he brought along with him?.

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