orphans

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Knights of the borrowed dark

A young orphan learns that monsters can grow out of the shadows in our world, and there is an ancient order of knights who keep them at bay.
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Unearthly things

In this modern retelling of Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre, orphaned surfer-girl Janie Mason must move into the Rochester mansion with guardians she had never met, and where the night is filled with screams from the attic.
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The girl I used to be

2017
"Olivia's parents were killed fourteen years ago. Now, new evidence reopens the case . . . and she finds herself involved"--Provided by publisher.
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Alfred Kropp

the thirteenth skull
2015
Alfred Kropp faces an unknown enemy that is causing him to question who he can trust and whether or not he will escape this latest adventure with his life.
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The extraordinary adventures of Alfred Kropp

2015
Through a series of dangerous and violent misadventures, teenage loser Alfred Kropp rescues King Arthur's legendary sword Excalibur from the forces of evil.
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Stay in the game

2016
Desperate for money to pay for an experimental treatment that could save his ill grandfather's life, high school senior James enters a mysterious contest that will award the winner ten million dollars.
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Oliver Twist

2014
A graphic novel adaptation of Charles Dickens' classic novel about the harsh life of an orphan in Victorian England.
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A little princess

2014
Sara Crewe, a pupil at Miss Minchin's London school, is left in poverty when her father dies but is later rescued by a mysterious benefactor.
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Heidi

2014
After Heidi, an orphan, builds a strong bond with her grandfather in the Swiss Alps, she is sent into town to attend school and be a friend to a wealthy man's daughter, who is restricted to a wheelchair, but Heidi's health begins to fail as her desire to return to her home in the mountains increases.
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Bobby Lee Claremont and the criminal element

2017
In 1923, when New Orleans native and orphan Bobby Lee Claremont boards a train to Chicago, where he hopes to join the criminal element and make a new life for himself, far away from the heavy-handed salvation of the Sisters of Charitable Mercy, he acquaints himself with a group of intriguing and possibly dangerous passengers who cause Bobby Lee to reconsider his plans.
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