Recruitment Day is here... if you fail, a loved one will die For Lucian “Lucky” Spark, Recruitment Day means the Establishment, a totalitarian government, will force him to become one of five Recruits competing to join the ruthless...
Orphans
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Auteur:Black, HollySommaire:Jude becomes embroiled in palace intrigues and deceptions, discovering her own capacity for bloodshed. But as civil war threatens to drown the Courts of Faerie in violence, she will need to risk her life in a dangerous alliance to save...
- Auteur:George, KallieSommaire:
Soar into adventure with Pippa, an orphaned girl in Ancient Greece, and her beloved winged horse, Zephyr, who head out on a daring adventure to save Mt. Olympus in the second book in the Wings of Olympus series by beloved, award-winning...
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High school senior Ella Cleary, whose synesthesia causes her to see colors with each interaction, must question everything she knows about her life when journalism student Alec investigates her parents' death.
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Easter is a devout Pentecostal, while Anneth is headstrong and restless. The two live in the heart of coal mining country, surrounded by the ghosts of their loved ones. One night, Easter meets El, the man that will become her husband....
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Auteur:Voigt, CynthiaSommaire:In nineteenth-century Massachusetts, orphan Jean, employed to sort out the family papers of a reclusive artist, becomes curious about the mysterious, long-ago death of his wife and the subsequent disappearance of their young child.
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Auteur:Dahl, RoaldSommaire:When Sophie is snatched from her orphanage bed by the BFG (Big Friendly Giant), she fears she will be eaten. But the two join forces to vanquish the nine other far less gentle giants who threaten to consume earth's children.
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Auteur:Harry, LilianSommaire:When Stella Simmons comes to the Devonshire village of Burracombe to start her teaching career, she is alone in the world. This book begins with the story of life in a Devonshire village in the 1950s and shows us a picture of Britain...
- Auteur:Erdrich, LouiseSommaire:
From award-winning, New York Times bestselling author Louise Erdrich comes this vibrant tale of abandonment and sexual obsession, jealousy, and unstinting love. On a spring morning in 1932, young Karl and Mary Adare arrive by boxcar in...
- Auteur:DiCamillo, KateSommaire:
From two-time Newbery Medalist Kate DiCamillo and two-time Caldecott Medalist Sophie Blackall comes a fantastical meditation on fate, love, and the power of words to spell the world. We shall all, in the end, be led to where we belong....
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Auteur:Kingsolver, BarbaraSommaire:When Taylor Greer hits the road she has no real destination, only to get as far from Kentucky as possible. By the time she ends up in Arizona, she has inherited a three-year-old Cherokee girl from an Indian woman she met in a bar.
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Auteur:Snicket, LemonySommaire:After the sudden death of their parents, the three Baudelaire children must depend on each other and their wits when it turns out that the distant relative who is appointed their guardian is determined to use any means necessary to get...
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Auteur:Poliquin, DanielSommaire:Facing the dwindling years of his life, an old man waits for his turn on the auction block, hoping to be sold to a family as decent as the one he is leaving. It is not the first time he has been here, and it may not be the last. Mute in...
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Auteur:Berry, JulieSommaire:Orphaned at age five, Lucinda, now fifteen, stands with courage against the man who took everything from her, aided by a thief, a clever goat, and a mysterious woman called the Witch of Amaranth, while the prince she knew as a child...
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Auteur:Horne, ConstanceSommaire:Short-listed for the 1999 Silver Birch Award Eleven-year-old Ellen finds herself wrongly accused of stealing while selling flowers on the Liverpool docks. In her escape she becomes a stowaway aboard a steamship bound for Canada, an...
- Auteur:Bernard-Lenoir, AnneSommaire:
Luke MacAllan, un jeune orphelin, travaille à la construction du chemin de fer transcontinental dans l'Ouest canadien. Entraîné malgré lui dans une suite d'événements dangereux, il découvrira des indices sur un attentat à la bombe qui...
- Auteur:Nix, GarthSommaire:
Bestselling novelist Garth Nix returns to the Old Kingdom for the never-before-told love story of Sabriel's parents, Tericel and Elinor, and the charter magic that brought them together-and threatened to tear them apart. A long-...
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Auteur:Thomas, AudreySommaire:Caricatured by Charles Dickens in Little Dorrit as the cantankerous maid of Mr. and Mrs. Meagles, “Tattycoram” tells her own life story in this utterly compelling metafiction by the celebrated author of Isobel Gunn. Throughout her...
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Auteur:Coates, Jan L.Sommaire:Katie Dupuis Pearson wants to find her real mother; her only clues are her Lavender Lady, a piece of amethyst, and a bookmark from Lunenburg. While spending a month in lovely Lunenburg with her foster mother, Katie makes friends with...
- Auteur:Deprince, ElaineSommaire:
Michaela DePrince was known as girl no. 27 at the orphanage, where she was abandoned at a young age and tormented as a "devil child" for a skin condition that makes her skin appear spotted. But it was at the orphanage that...
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