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Legacy (Annie Matthew) volume 1
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English
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In a world where tennis can unlock ancient magic, Legacy enters a tennis tournament organized by Queen Silla in order to raise enough money to save her father's orphanage.
From the mind of basketball legend and Academy Award-winning storyteller Kobe Bryant comes a new tale of finding your inner magic against all odds. GAME. SET. MAGIC. Game - Tennis means life and death for the residents of the magical kingdom of Nova, and for twelve-year-old Legacy,...
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Oracles of Delphi Keep volume 1
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English
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In 1938, three orphans -- Theo, Carl, and Ian, ages ten to thirteen -- lead three teachers through a portal that takes them from Dover, England, to Morocco in their quest to locate six silver boxes before the ancient prophecies therein are found by the evil Demogorgon's offspring.
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Oracles of Delphi Keep volume 3
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English
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In 1940, when Delphi Keep's taken over by the Royal Navy as a communications outpost, Ian, Theo, and Carl dread being evacuated to the earl's winter residence where they'll no longer be protected, but are even more concerned about deciphering the third prophecy and identifying the Secret Keeper.
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When she hears the story about the screaming bridge, where a busload of orphans were killed fifty years before, sixteen-year-old Emma Donovan and her friends decide to investigate the abandoned orphanage and the bridge--and that is the beginning of a terrifying night for Emma.
25) Annie
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"It's a hard-knock life for America's favorite orphan! Everyone knows the story of the irrepressible Annie, who lives at Miss Hannigan's orphanage until she beats the odds and finds a new life with the benevolent and wealthy Daddy Warbucks. Annie has enchanted millions of readers from her original comic strip appearance to the hit Broadway musical. Now, with a Tony-nominated revival playing on Broadway, Puffin is reissuing this novelization of the...
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After a merciless winter, spring has sprung in 1880 Stockholm, and the city awaits the arrival of the SS Vega, the first ship to have sailed the Northeast Passage. Life is busy at the orphanage, but twelve-year-old Mika quickly notices that the older orphans are up to something--and it doesn't look good. When Constable Hoff approaches her with information about thefts around the city, Mika becomes even more concerned about what the other kids are...
27) The jinx
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Misfit's life for me volume 1
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English
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"Elizabeth is tired of being mistreated in her orphanage, so she runs away and hides in a ship's cargo hold. But when the ship sets sail, two crewmen discover her during a storm. They think she's a jinx! What will become of Elizabeth now?" -- Back cover.
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Murderer's Blade is a dystopian novel following a world broken up by war. The government is corrupt, and it has established orphanages throughout the country which secretly serve as screening centers for a secret program. The brightest and most talented kids are identified and sent to an elite assassin training academy where they are taught to hunt the most dangerous criminals. Scarlet is one such candidate. An orphan without a family, she navigates...
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In St. Louis, Missouri, in 1911, orphaned eleven-year-old Julia Delaney rails against countless disappointments and the nun's strict rules at the House of Mercy, especially after her sister Mary turns fourteen and must leave, but she, her family, and best friend get tangled up with a gangster and a decade-old mystery.
30) The Book of Lies
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On the night he was brought to an orphanage, Marcel's memories were taken by a sorcerer and replaced with new ones by his Book of Lies, but Bea, a girl with the ability to make herself invisible, was watching and is determined to help him discover his true identity.
32) The sleeper
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The Galactic Expansion Home for Lost Children, otherwise known in Ravens Pass as the Old Orphanage, is full of alien children ready to take over the planet--but at least one of them may actually be a human spy.
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Margaret is sent to the Hopeton Orphanage, run by the cruel Miss Switch. Margaret can hear things that other people cannot. One day, she hears tiny voices coming from a thorny tree on the orphanage ground, and discovers a community of moths. Together, Margaret and the moths prepare a plan to end Miss Switch's resign of terror.
34) El perro verde
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Hopi volume 2
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Español
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"Un nuevo caso espera a Hopi, Fernando y Balbina. Los tres detectives se han propuesto investigar los robos de las granjas de la zona y la aparición de un misterioso perro verde... ¿Quién está detrás de todo esto? ¿Lo descubrirán entre castigo y castigo?"
37) The short con
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Pops and Branwell mysteries volume 1
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English
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"After the loss of her parents, Mary Branwell is thrust into a ramshackle orphanage that she discovers doubles as a detective squad run by children. Partnered with legendary kid gumshoe "Pops" Popowski, Mary finds herself solving mysteries on the streets of a crime-ridden, futuristic city."--
38) Miasto cieni
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Polish
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Kontynuacja Osobliwego domu pani Peregrine, który zachwycil nie tylko nastoletnich czytelników. Akcja powiesci rozpoczyna sie dokladnie tam, gdzie zakonczyla sie poprzednia. Jest rok 1940. Jacob i jego nowi przyjaciele opuszczaja wyspe, na której znajdowal sie dom pani Peregrine i udaja sie do Londynu. W czasie podrózy czekaja ich liczne niespodzianki i przygody. Hollow city to niepowtarzalna, magiczna powiesc, która przenosi czytelników w swiat...
39) Wonder show
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"Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, step inside Mosco's Traveling Wonder Show, a menagerie of human curiosities and misfits guaranteed to astound and amaze! But perhaps the strangest act of Mosco's display is Portia Remini, a normal among the freaks, on the run from McGreavy's Home for Wayward Girls, where Mister watches and waits. He said he would always find Portia, that she could never leave. Free at last, Portia begins a new life on the bally,...
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Twenty years ago, the humans came for their gods. In the bloody revolution, gods were all but wiped out. Ever since, the children they left behind have been imprisoned in an orphanage, watched day and night by the ruthless Guard. Any who show signs of divine power vanish from their beds in the night, all knowledge of their existence denied. No one has ever escaped the orphanage. Until now. Seventeen-year-old Hero is finally free - but at a terrible...