Orphans
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Auteur:Montgomery, L. M.Sommaire: -
Auteur:Mills, RobSommaire:When Charlie Sykes wakes up in hospital in St. John's, he learns that he and his father have been in a car accident and that his father is dying. Charlie inherits little more than the brass key that his father pressed into his hand...
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Auteur:Lesley PearseSommaire:Charity Stratton's bleak childhood is changed for ever when both her parents are killed in a fire. Separated by the authorities from her younger brothers and sister, Charity is sent out to work as a skivvy in a boys' boarding...
- Auteur:Stoddard, LindseySommaire:
Find yourself. Find your place. Find your brave. This uplifting tale, which award-winning author Leslie Connor dubbed "a perfectly paced journey of the heart" is perfect for fans of Lisa Graff and Lynda Mullaly Hunt. Cyrus...
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Auteur:Nawaz, SaleemaSommaire:Beena and Sadhana are sisters who share a bond that could only have been shaped by the most unusual of childhoods--and by shared tragedy. Orphaned as teenagers, they have grown up under the exasperated watch of their Sikh uncle, who...
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Auteur:Braem, MegSommaire:Twin sisters Poubelle and Angelique are bonded in both biology and shared tragedy after a car accident leaves them orphaned along a prairie highway in a pool of blood. But the young twins are brought home with Dr. Glass after their...
- Auteur:Dunlop, BarbaraSommaire:
Family was everything. Control was everything else. So when Lucas Demarco discovered he shared custody of his orphaned niece, he was determined to change the situation at once. Especially since the baby's aunt, Devin Hartley, despised...
- Auteur:JONES, V. M.Sommaire:
Adam's much anticipated return to the Quested Court is overshadowed by the disappearance of Hannah, the young daughter of computer-games expert and creator of Karazan, Quentin Quested. Once more the five friends must face the...
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Auteur:Kerz, AnnaSommaire:In this stand-alone sequel to The Mealworm Diaries, Aaron is anxiously waiting for his father to return for the first time since Aaron's mother's death eight years earlier. Aaron works hard with a counselor at school, but he still has...
- Auteur:Grace, AdalynSommaire:
A girl confronts Death--and her own deathly powers--in this Gothic-infused, romantic young adult fantasy. Nineteen-year-old Signa Farrow, orphaned as a baby, has been raised by a string of guardians, each more interested in her wealth...
- Auteur:Kim, JuheaSommaire:
An epic story of love, war, and redemption set against the backdrop of the Korean independence movement, following the intertwined fates of a young girl sold to a courtesan school and the penniless son of a hunter In 1917, deep in the...
- Auteur:Streatfeild, NoelSommaire:
Pauline, Petrova and Posy Fossil are not really sisters, even their surname is invented since Great Uncle Matthew (GUM) adopted each of them on his various fossil-hunting trips. When the trio decide to 'put our name in the history...
- Auteur:Kuang, R. F.Sommaire:
Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller from the author of The Poppy War "Absolutely phenomenal. One of the most brilliant, razor-sharp books I've had the pleasure of reading that isn't just an alternative fantastical history, but an...
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Auteur:Christopher, NeilSommaire:When an orphan boy named Ava finds himself cold and alone, he comes upon a group of magical tiny people who show him how it feels to have a home of his own.
- Auteur:Lo, MalindaSommaire:
In this variation on the Cinderella story, Ash grows up believing in the fairy realm that the king and his philosophers have sought to suppress, until one day she must choose between a handsome fairy cursed to love her and the King...
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Auteur:Bowman, PatrickSommaire:Arrow through the Axes concludes the “Odyssey of a Slave” trilogy that began with the Red Maple–nominated Torn from Troy, retelling Homer’s Odyssey. The slave Alexi, now free of his Greek captors, infiltrates the Greek strongholds of...
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Auteur:HOROWITZ, AnthonySommaire:Alex is in hospital recovering from a near fatal gunshot wound and determined to put his spying days behind him. Unfortunately, the reluctant teenage superspy is forced into the middle of a war against a group of eco-terrorists who plan...
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Auteur:Horowitz, AnthonySommaire:After recovering from a near fatal gunshot wound, teenage spy Alex Rider embarks on a new mission to stop a group of eco-terrorists from sabotaging the launch of the first outer space hotel.
- Auteur:Muller, GeorgeSommaire:
When George Mueller could not get it out of his mind to open a house for orphans in late 1835, he purposed to do so "that God might be magnified by the fact that the orphans under my care are provided with all they need, only by prayer...
- Auteur:Montgomery, L. M.Sommaire:
Anne Shirley moves to Summerside where she becomes principal of the local school and deals with a family who resents her presence.
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