orphans

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Mountain top mystery

A graphic novel adaptation of the Boxcar Children book in which the Aldens solve a mystery and find long-lost treasure which belongs to an old Native American woman.
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The castle mystery

A graphic novel featuring the adventures of the Boxcar Children, as Henry, Jessie, Violet, and Benny fix up an old castle and uncover an amazing secret.
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The lighthouse mystery

A graphic novel adaptation of the Boxcar Children book in which the Aldens get involved in questions about a boy's unusual behavior after they rent a lighthouse.
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Bicycle mystery

A graphic novel adaptation of the Boxcar Children mystery in which the four Aldens take shelter in an old abandoned house during a rainstorm while on a bicycle trip to their Aunt Jane's house and a lost dog finds them.
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The secret garden

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.
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When the nightingale sings

Despite her mean-spirited foster mother's attempts to demean her, fourteen-year-old orphan Marigold finds the song within her heart during the search for a new lead gospel singer for the Rose of Sharon Baptist Church.
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The graveyard book

Nobody Owens is a normal boy, except that he has been raised by ghosts and other denizens of the graveyard.
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Three times lucky

Washed ashore as a baby in tiny Tupelo Landing, North Carolina, Mo LoBeau, now eleven, and her best friend Dale turn detective when the amnesiac Colonel, owner of a cafe? and co-parent of Mo with his cook, Miss Lana, seems implicated in a murder.
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Ballerina dreams

from orphan to dancer
A skill-building introduction to the life of the principal dancer from the Dance Theatre of Harlem describes her early years as an orphan in Sierra Leone, her adoption by an American family, the photograph that inspired her dreams and her rise to becoming one of the world's most accomplished ballerinas.
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The secret garden

A ten-year-old orphan comes to live in a lonely house on the Yorkshire moors where she discovers an invalid cousin and the mysteries of a locked garden.
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