Winner of the Middle East Book Award, Youth Fiction category. Jameela lives with her mother and father in Afghanistan. Despite the fact that there is no school in their poor, war-torn village, and Jameela lives with a birth defect that...
Orphanages
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Author:Khan, RukhsanaSummary: -
Author:Taylor, WandaSummary:In 1921, prominent lawyer and Nova Scotia Black leader James R. Johnston’s vision of a place welcoming of Black children came to reality. In an era of segregation and overt racism that saw most orphanages refuse to take in Black...
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Author:Klune, TJ.Summary:A 2021 Alex Award winner! The 2021 RUSA Reading List: Fantasy Winner! An Indie Next Pick! One of Publishers Weekly's "Most Anticipated Books of Spring 2020" One of Book Riot 's "20 Must-Read Feel-Good Fantasies" - Lambda Literary Award-...
- Author:Gifford, ElisabethSummary:
You do not leave a sick child alone to face the dark and you do not leave a child at a time like this. Deeply in love and about to marry, students Misha and Sophia flee a Warsaw under Nazi occupation for a chance at freedom. Forced to...
- Author:Bouchet, AmandaSummary:
"Amanda Bouchet blasts off with a series that's full of heart, humor, romance, and action."-JENNIFER ESTEP, New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of Kill the Queen Tess Bailey: the galaxy's Most Wanted....
- Author:Riggs, RansomSummary:
A mysterious island. An abandoned orphanage. A strange collection of very curious photographs. It all waits to be discovered in Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children , an unforgettable novel that makes for a thrilling listening...
- Author:Gist, DeeanneSummary:
From the day she arrives at the Biltmore, Tillie Reese is dazzled - by the riches of the Vanderbilts and by Mack Danvers, a mountain man turned footman. When Tillie is enlisted to help tame Mack's rugged behavior by tutoring him in...
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Author:Riggs, RansomSummary:Time is running out for the Peculiar Children. With a dangerous madman on the loose and their beloved Miss Peregrine still in danger, Jacob Portman and Emma Bloom are forced to stage the most daring of rescue missions.
- Author:Grainger, JeanSummary:
Carmel, a forty-year-old Irish woman, is living a life that's fine, not exciting or awful, just fine. Then she gets a Facebook message from a stranger that could change everything. It could be a scam. But what if it is true? Her...
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Author:Skrypuch, Marsha ForchukSummary:Last Airlift is the true story of the last Canadian airlift operation that left Saigon and arrived in Toronto on April 13, 1975. Son Thi Anh Tuyet was one of 57 babies and children on that flight. Based on personal interviews and...
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Author:Davis, KatieSummary:Katie Davis traveled to Uganda for a short mission trip over the Christmas break of her senior year in high school. She found herself so moved by the Ugandan people and their needs that she knew it was her calling to return to care for...
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Author:Riggs, RansomSummary:Having escaped Miss Peregrine's island, Jacob and his friends must journey to London, encountering new allies, peculiar animals, and other surprises along the way.
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Author:Gupta, AshisSummary:It is the story of a youth growing up in today's Warsaw, Poland, and his interactions with one of the survivors of the Holocaust.
- Author:Marlantes, KarlSummary:
From New York Times bestselling author Karl Marlantes comes a propulsive and sweeping novel in which loyalty, friendship, and love are put to the ultimate test. Helsinki, 1947. Finland teeters between the Soviet Union and the West....
- Author:Clark, Heather A.Summary:
Thirtysomething Nicky Fowler has it all-- a rewarding career, a loving husband and the perfect home. But when she and her husband suffer a complicated tragedy, the strain of two people dealing with an impossible situation in different...
- Author:Fracassi, PhilipSummary:
Turn of the century, in a remote valley in Pennsylvania. Here, under the watchful eyes of several priests, thirty boys work, learn, and worship. Peter Barlow, orphaned as a child by a gruesome murder, has made a new life here. As he...
- Author:Muller, GeorgeSummary:
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...
