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Author
Series
Sisters Grimm volume 1
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2007, 2005
Language
English
Description
Orphans Sabrina and Daphne Grimm are sent to live with an eccentric grandmother that they have always believed to be dead.
Author
Series
Pellinor volume 4
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
The bard Maerad and her brother Hem hold the key to the mysterious Singing, and each of them must overcome terrible obstacles before they can unite and together unlock the Tree of Song, release the music of the Elidhu, and defeat the Nameless One.
Author
Series
Ascendance trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
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.
85) Fireborne
Author
Series
Aurelian cycle volume 1
Publisher
Putnam/G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Two dragonriders must go head-to-head for the top position in the Callipolan fleet, and protect the new regime from those who lost power." -- Provided by publisher.
86) Shadow and bone
Author
Series
Publisher
Henry Holt
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Orphaned by the Border Wars, Alina Starkov is taken from obscurity and her only friend, Mal, to become the protégé of the mysterious Darkling, who trains her to join the magical elite in the belief that she is the Sun Summoner, who can destroy the monsters of the Fold.
87) Ash
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Co
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
In this variation on the Cinderella story, Ash grows up believing in the fairy realm that the king and his philosophers have sought to suppress, until one day she must choose between a handsome fairy cursed to love her and the King's Huntress whom she loves.
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Fleeing from the orphanage where she lives, Grace makes a deal with the witch in the nearby woods--if Grace can learn all the witch's spells, she must make Grace her apprentice--an agreement that leads to an unexpected bond, and an unimaginable sacrifice.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
In 1911, when orphaned ten-year-old Inge comes to live with her stern grandmother in a remote island village in Bornholm, Denmark, she ends up changing the climate of the town, bringing joy and laughter to her grandmother's life and finding a new family for herself to help assuage her grief over losing her mother.
91) Dancing shoes
Author
Series
Shoes volume 9
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
When their mother dies, two girls go to live with their cousin Dulcie, whose mother runs a dancing school.
92) Once there was
Author
Publisher
Simon and Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
When fifteen-year-old Iranian American Marjan discovers her murdered father was secretly a veterinarian to magical creatures, she realizes she must take up his mantle, despite the many dangers.
Author
Series
Wildwood chronicles volume 3
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
In the aftermath of a young's girl's midnight seance that awakens a long-slumbering, malevolent spirit, a band of runaway orphans teams up with an underground collective of saboteurs to rescue friends imprisoned in an industrial wasteland.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Books for Children
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
When Nathaniel and Aunt Phil are summoned to the Welsh countryside to calm the giant dragons known as wyverns, they suspect the problem was caused by the same sinister man who has been trying to steal the Book of Beasts.
97) Nowhere boy
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press, a division of Holtzbrinck Publishing
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Fourteen-year-old Ahmed, a Syrian refugee, and thirteen-year-old Max, an American boy, are bound by a secret that sets them on the adventure of a lifetime." -- Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Jack and the geniuses volume 1
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Traveling to Antarctica for a prestigious science competition, twelve-year-old Jack and his genius foster siblings, Ava and Matt, become caught up in a mystery involving a missing scientist.
100) Clockwork princess
Author
Series
The infernal devices volume 3
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
When seventeen-year-old orphaned shapechanger Tessa Gray is kidnapped by the villainous Mortmain in his final bid for power, the London Institute rallies to save her, but is beset by danger and betrayal at every turn.
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