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Author
Series
Promised neverland volume 3
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
196 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
In order to escape the orphanage where they are being raised as food for demons, Emma, Norman, and Ray begin recruiting allies. But convincing the other children to believe them may not be an easy task." --Page [4] of cover.
122) Sunny: 5
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
210 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"What is Sunny? Sunny is a car. Sunny is a car you take on a drive with your mind. It takes you to the place of your dreams. Sunny is the story of beating the odds, in the ways that count."--Amazon.com.
123) Sunny: 6
Author
Series
Sunny volume 6
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
256 pages : chiefly illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
The story of an orphanage, the children who live in it, and the beat-up old Nissan Sunny 1200 which provides a trio of boys with a means of escape from their bleak everyday lives.
125) An orphan's war
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
424 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"Liverpool, 1940. When her childhood sweetheart Johnny is killed in action, Maxine Grey loses more than her husband – she loses her best friend. Desperate to make a difference in this awful war, Maxine takes a nursing job at London’s St Thomas’s hospital. She takes comfort in the attentions of a handsome surgeon, but Edwin Blake isn’t all he seems. And as the Blitz descends on the capital, Maxine faces more heartache. When...
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
254 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
A lighthouse in the darkest period of human history.Warsaw, August 1942. Janusz Korczak, a pediatrician who became an admired educator, renounces the opportunity to remain alive and escorts the children of the orphanage he had established and so lovingly managed, to the ghetto and from there, on their final journey. Korczak, together with two hundred of his pupils, were sent to the Treblinka extermination camp where they met their death.In his book,...
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
10 unnumbered pages, 237 pages, 6 unnumbered pages : maps ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"This is the story of my childhood in Brazil, about the culture shock I experienced when I arrived in the forests of northern Sweden and about the loss of the people I loved most. It's about what I remember of my childhood in the Brazilian wilderness, on the streets of São Paulo, in the orphanage. And it's about my early days in Sweden, when I found myself dropped into a place and life that couldn't have been in sharper contrast to what I had known"--Back...
Author
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
xii, 319 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Describes the author's life after she quit her glamorous job at Vogue and moved to Ghana to help the country's children, orphaned through the AIDS epidemic, by moving away from institutional orphanages and phasing in monitored fostering.
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"It's 1941, and tensions are rising in the United States as the Second World War rages in Europe. Eleven-year-old Gusta's life, like the world around her, is about to change. Her father, a foreign-born labor organizer, has had to flee the country, and Gusta has been sent to live in an orphanage run by her grandmother. Nearsighted, snaggletoothed Gusta arrives in Springdale, Maine, lugging her one precious possession: a beloved old French horn, her...
131) Indian orphanages
Author
Pub. Date
[2001]
Physical Desc
x, 326 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
313 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Witches have been banned from Arrett for years. Which is why Milly has tried to ignore the tingling light that appears in her palm anytime she conjures up a wish. She has too many responsibilities as the oldest girl at St. George's Orphanage to get caught up in magicks. Sweet, quirky Cilla, though, has always longed for that power, even if it could be dangerous for her. Milly has always kept an eye out for her, but then, in a case of mistaken identity,...
133) The bag of bones
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2009.
Physical Desc
247 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
" ... the beady-eyed, green-tongued witch Truda Hangnail spreads evil along her path to succeed Queen Bluebell, enlisting the kingdom's rats and shrinking the good witches of Wadingburn to pave her way to the throne. Luckily, a sweet-natured orphan named Loobly is witness to Truda's evil spells and sets off to fetch help."--Jacket flap.
When the quill writes "Go Go Go" frantically on the wall, and the House of the Ancient Crones heaves Gracie Gillypot...
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
417 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
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.
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