Winner of the Canadian Library Association Book of the Year Award In his first year in high school, Hubbo O'Driscoll is torn between his poor but fun friends and the shallow but rich kids. In this novel based on Great Expectations,...
Orphans
- Author:Doyle, BrianSummary:
- Author:Jones, Diana WynneSummary:
Although an orphan, Earwig has always enjoyed living at St. Morwald's, where she manages to make everyone do her bidding, but when she is taken in by a foster parents who are actually a witch and a demon, she has a hard time trying...
- Author:HOROWITZ, AnthonySummary:
Reluctant MI6 agent, Alex Rider, is relaxing in France with his friend and her family. He is just trying to be a typical teenager when a chance encounter with an assassin launches him into danger. He must investigate a pop star whose...
- Author:Horowitz, AnthonySummary:
After a chance encounter with assassin Yassen Gregorovich in the South of France, teenage spy Alex Rider investigates international pop star and philanthropist Damian Cray whose new video game venture hides sinister motives involving...
- Author:Willett, EdwardSummary:
Ariane and Wally must reforge the sword of Excalibur to defeat Merlin: but doing so may unleash something neither of them is strong enough to handle.
In the climactic fifth book of The Shards of Excalibur series, Ariane, Wally,...
- Author:Auerbach, AnnieSummary:
Gru is a wannabe master villain who plans to steal the moon. Unfortunately for Gru, another villain named Vector wants to steal his glory. Gru adopts three orphaned girls to become secret weapons in his plot to one-up Vector. But the...
- Author:Sutcliff, RosemarySummary:
Dawn Wind is a historical novel for children and young adults written by Rosemary Sutcliff and published in 1961 by Oxford University Press, with illustrations by Charles Keeping. It takes place in Britain in the sixth century, after...
- Author:Dickens, CharlesSummary:
David Copperfield traces the eponymous hero from misery in the Salem House Academy and drudgery in his stepfather's business, to his escape to Dover and an eccentric aunt where he transforms his life.
- Author:Tracey, ScottSummary:
Malcolm Denton wants to be free... of the unbreakable coven bond that ties him to his siblings, of his life as a witch in the hated Moonset coven and of everything magical. His longing attracts the attention of a demonic Abyssal Prince...
- Author:Patterson, James, Sadler, AdamSummary:
As Daniel X continues to hunt for intergalactic aliens, he and his friends go to England searching for Beta, an outlaw who takes the form of fire and who killed Daniel's parents when he was two years old.
- Author:Webster, JeanSummary:
When orphan Jerusha Abbott receives word that a mysterious millionaire has decided to fund her schooling, she's ecstatic. But as her benefactor proves to be more and more elusive, requesting that she write him without inquiring as to...
- Author:Horowitz, AnthonySummary:
Alex Rider does battle with a charity broker con artist who has invested millions of dollars in a form of genetically modified corn that can release an airborne strain of virus capable of knocking out an entire country in one day.
- Author:AviSummary:
As Crispin tries to fulfill Bear's dream of moving to Iceland, he must leave Troth behind at a convent that needs a healer but, after falling in with thieves posing as musicians, he makes a new friend, Owen, and together they...
- Author:AviSummary:
Falsely 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.
- Author:Jennings, SharonSummary:
After years of being passed around to various relatives, Cassandra Jovanovich has found a home where she feels she belongs. All she wants to do is forget her past and pursue her dream of becoming an actress. But her new friend, Leanna...
- Author:Anderson, CatherineSummary:
Loretta Simpson lost her parents to a daring Comanche raid seven years ago--and now she lives as a mute with her extended family. Meanwhile, Comanche Hunter of the Wolf sees her as the embodiment of an ancient prophesy and chooses her...
- Author:Clare, CassandraSummary:
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.
- Author:Montgomery, L. M.Summary:
- Author:Lesley PearseSummary:
Charity Stratton's bleak childhood is changed for ever when both her parents are killed in a fire. Separated by the authorities from her younger brothers and sister, Charity is sent out to work as a skivvy in a boys' boarding...
- Author:Nawaz, SaleemaSummary:
Beena and Sadhana are sisters who share a bond that could only have been shaped by the most unusual of childhoods--and by shared tragedy. Orphaned as teenagers, they have grown up under the exasperated watch of their Sikh uncle, who...