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Orphans

  • Small bones
    Author:
    Grant, Vicki
    Summary:

    Dot, whose name reflects her stature, has always had big dreams. But her dreams have to be put on hold while she searches for the truth about her parents. She gets a job as a seamstress at a lakeside resort in rural Ontario and falls...
  • Skeleton Key Book 3 of the Alex Rider series
    Author:
    HOROWITZ, Anthony
    Summary:

    Reluctant teenage spy Alex Rider, on a routine mission at the Wimbledon tennis championships, gets caught up in Chinese gangs, illegal nuclear weapons and the suspect plans of his Russian host, General Sarov.
  • Skeleton Key
    Author:
    Horowitz, Anthony
    Summary:

    Reluctant teenage-spy Alex Rider, on a routine mission at the Wimbledon tennis championships, gets caught up in Chinese gangs, illegal nuclear weapons, and the suspect plans of his Russian host, General Sarov.
  • Shattered glass
    Author:
    Toten, Teresa
    Summary:

    Toni has always had nightmares about fire, and she also has burn scars but no idea how she got them. So when fire destroys the orphanage she has grown up in, she is ready to make her way to Toronto, where she hopes to discover the truth...
  • Shallow pond
    Author:
    Grosso, Alissa
    Summary:

    Everyone in Shallow Pond knows the Bunting Sisters. Nobody knows their Secrets. Annie is the oldest. The sickly one who gave up on her own life so she could raise her sisters after their parents died. Gracie is the wild child. She wants...
  • Shadow walkers
    Author:
    Hartinger, Brent
    Summary:

    "I just devoured the book, a good story for any age." —ALAN CHEUSE, NPR's "All Things Considered" Zach lives with his grandparents on a remote island in Puget Sound in Washington State. With only his little brother, Gilbert, to keep him...
  • Shadow in the north
    Author:
    Pullman, Philip
    Summary:

    In 1878 in London, Sally, now twenty-two and established in her own business, and her companions Frederick and Jim try to solve the mystery surrounding the unexpected collapse of a shipping firm and its ties to a sinister corporation...
  • Sever
    Author:
    DeStefano, Lauren
    Summary:

    After modern science turns every human into a genetic time bomb with men dying at age twenty-five and women dying at age twenty, teenaged Rhine finds hope for a brighter future from a surprising source.
  • Secret of the sevens
    Author:
    Lindquist, Lynn
    Summary:

    Everyone at Singer, a boarding school for underprivileged kids, knows the urban legend of the Society of Seven. Nearly two decades ago, the original members of this exclusive guild murdered the school’s founder and then perished in the...
  • Secret Garden, The
    Author:
    Burnett, Frances Hodgson
    Summary:

    Ten-year-old Mary comes to live in a lonely house on the Yorkshire moors and discovers an invalid cousin and the mysteries of a locked garden.
  • Scorpia rising
    Author:
    Horowitz, Anthony
    Summary:

    When the world's deadliest terrorist organization, Scorpia, stirs up trouble in the Middle East, it is up to fourteen-year-old MI6 agent Alex Rider to thwart their plans.
  • Scorpia
    Author:
    Horowitz, Anthony
    Summary:

    After being told that his father was an assassin for a criminal organization, fourteen-year-old Alex goes to Italy to find out more and becomes involved in a plan to kill thousands of English schoolchildren.
  • Samantha an American girl
    Author:
    Adler, Susan S.
    Summary:

    Samantha Parkington is an orphan being raised by her wealthy grandmother at the start of a brand-new century, a time when new ideas and inventions are changing everyone's lives. Samantha's own world is filled with elegance and...
  • Russian roulette the story of an assassin
    Author:
    Horowitz, Anthony
    Summary:

    Presented with an unexpected assignment, Alex Rider's greatest nemesis, Yassen Gregoravich, recalls his life and the path that led him to become an assassin while his one-time friend, Alex's uncle, became a spy.
  • Rémi et Luc-John : les orphelins book 1
    Author:
    Renaud, Jean-Baptiste
    Summary:

    Au milieu des années 30, Rémi, un jeune garçon se retrouve orphelin et est recueilli par un oncle très malcommode. S’enfuyant de chez lui, il rencontre sur son chemin Luc-John, un jeune Amérindien, qui s’est évadé d’un pensionnat...
  • Quest for the Sun Book 4 of the Karazan Quartet
    Author:
    JONES, V. M.
    Summary:

    Adam discovers a secret, there was not one baby prince, but two. Zephyr, Prince of the Wind, and Zenith, Prince of the Sun. Adam's search for Zenith, a twin four times his own age, takes him over the Plains of the Dead to the outer...
  • Queen Solomon
    Author:
    Berger, Tamara Faith
    Summary:

    It's just another boring summer for our teenaged narrator -- until Barbra arrives. An Ethiopian Jew, Barbra was brought to Israel at age five, a part of Operation Solomon, and now our narrator's well-intentioned father has...
  • Protocole
    Author:
    Trudeau, Alain
    Summary:

    Faites la connaissance de Michaël Muller, âgé de huit ans, dont la vie sera à jamais perturbée par la mort de ses parents dans des circonstances pour le moins inhabituelles. Cet événement tragique amènera le petit Michaël dans un autre...
  • Prince of the Wind Book 3 of the Karazan Quartet
    Author:
    JONES, V. M.
    Summary:

    Adam's home at Highgate is crashing down around his ears, and in the fantasy world of Shakesh a mistake is having disastrous consequences. Adam and his friends must return to Shakesh, find the lost Prince of the Wind and overthrow...
  • Pollyanna
    Author:
    Porter, Eleanor H.
    Summary:

    When orphaned, eleven-year-old Pollyanna comes to live with austere and wealthy Aunt Polly, her philosophy of gladness brings happiness to her aunt and other unhappy members of the community.

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