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The dirt eaters

After his parents and the others in Longlight are killed in a raid, fifteen-year-old Roan struggles to reconcile his feelings of rage and his old pledge to peace, soon finding that his life has a purpose he never could have guessed--and that the destruction of his homeland had one as well.
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The magician's elephant

When ten-year-old orphan Peter Augustus Duchene encounters a fortune teller in the marketplace one day who tells him that his sister, who is presumed dead, is in fact alive, he embarks on a remarkable series of adventures in an attempt to find her.

The miseducation of Cameron Post

In the early 1990s, when gay teenager Cameron Post rebels against her conservative Montana ranch town and her family decides she needs to change her ways, she is sent to a gay conversion therapy center.
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Fast break

Since his mother's death, Jayson, twelve, has focused on basketball and surviving but he is found out and placed with an affluent foster family of a different race, and must learn to accept many changes, including facing his former teammates in a championship game.
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The yellow house mystery

2016
The Boxcar children travel to Maine, take canoes into the wilderness and live in a house exactly like the one on Surprise Island, except the Maine house is brown, not yellow. Soon they are trying to untangle the mystery of the two houses.

All my tomorrows

2003
Ten-year-old Teddy Hansen is forced to live in the 32nd Street Orphanage after his mother dies of pneumonia, where he meets other children who have been left behind.

Alabama moon

2009
After the death of his father, ten-year-old Moon Blake is removed from the Alabama forest where he was raised and sent to a boy's home, where, for the first time, he has contact with the outside world and learns about friendship, love, and humanity.

Jane Eyre

2016
A graphic novel adaptation of the classic story about Jane, a plain and penniless orphan in nineteenth-century England, accepts employment as a governess at Thornfield Hall and soon finds herself in love with her melancholy employer, Mr. Edward Rochester, a man with a terrible secret.
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The cruel prince

Jude, seventeen and mortal, gets tangled in palace intrigues while trying to win a place in the treacherous High Court of Faerie, where she and her sisters have lived for a decade.
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Spindrift and the orchid

2018
When a man walks into her grandfather s curiosity shop and asks about a black orchid, Spindrift turns him away. She s never seen such a thing. Until one night it appears. Spindrift, an orphan, has one keepsake from her parents a clear glass orb. Except it s not quite clear anymore. She watches as a black orchid forms inside the crystal. Then the flower blooms into a towering woman in a dress of midnight silk and air, a woman with the power to grant wishes. It s fun, at first.
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