Theme: Orphans

Young Samurai: The Way of the Dragon

By Book Importer | Published: May 10, 2011

June 1613.  Japan is threatened with war and Jack Fletcher is facing his greatest battle yet. Samurai are taking sides and, as the blood begins to flow, Jack’s warrior training is put to the ultimate test. His survival – and that of his friends – depends upon him mastering the Two Heavens, the secret sword [...]

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The Chaos

By Book Importer | Published: March 17, 2011

The curse of the NUM8ERS continues in Rachel Ward’s CHA0T1C, earth-shattering sequel! Adam has more than inherited his mother’s curse: When he looks in someone’s eyes, he not only sees the date of their death…he feels the searing, shocking pain of it. Since Jem died, Adam has lived by the sea with his great-grandmother, Val. [...]

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The Dealer

By Book Importer | Published: February 15, 2011

CHERUB agents are highly trained, extremely talented–and all under the age of seventeen. For official purposes, these agents do not exist. They are sent out on missions to spy on terrorists, hack into crucial documents, and gather intel on global threats—all without gadgets or weapons. It is an extremely dangerous job, but these agents have [...]

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Prisoners in the Palace

By Book Importer | Published: February 15, 2011

Recently orphaned and destitute, seventeen-year-old Liza Hastings earns a position as a lady’s maid to sixteen-year-old Princess Victoria at Kensington Palace in 1836, the year before Victoria becomes Queen of England.

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Once

By Book Importer | Published: January 20, 2011

Once I escaped from an orphanage to find my Mum and Dad. Once I saved a girl called Zelda from a burning house. Once I made a Nazi with toothache laugh. My name is Felix. This is my story.

Descriptors: Awards, Fiction, Historical Fiction, Intermediate (ages 9-14), Poland » Other Themes: , , , , , , , » Leave a comment

No Safe Place

By Book Importer | Published: December 17, 2010

Orphaned and plagued with the grief of losing everyone he loves, 15-year-old Abdul has made a long, fraught journey from his war-torn home in Baghdad, only to end up in The Jungle — a squalid, makeshift migrant community in Calais. Desperate to escape, he takes a spot in a small, overloaded England-bound boat that’s full [...]

Descriptors: Asia, Iraq, Realistic Fiction, Young Adult (ages 14-18) » Other Themes: , , , , , , , » 1 Comment

Magic Below Stairs

By Book Importer | Published: December 17, 2010

Ten-year-old Frederick, who is surreptitiously watched over by a household elf, is plucked from a London orphanage to be a servant to a wealthy wizard, and eventually his uncanny abilities lead him to become the wizard’s apprentice.

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The Clockwork Angel

By Book Importer | Published: December 17, 2010

Tessa Gray descends into Victorian London’s dark underworld to search for her missing brother, with the mysterious Shadowhunters as her only allies.

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Across the Nightingale Floor (Tales Of The Otori, Book 1)

By Book Importer | Published: October 12, 2010

This is the first book in a new epic trilogy that has already become a bestselling sensation in England and Australia, earning comparisons to The Lord of the Rings. It begins with the legend of a nightingale floor in a black-walled fortress-a floor that sings in alarm at the step of an assassin. It will [...]

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Muktar and the Camels

By Book Importer | Published: February 8, 2010

Muktar lives in an orphanage on the border of Kenya and Somalia. He daydreams about his old life with his family and especially tending to camels. One day, visitors arrive bearing books, and Muktar’s friend Ismail is excited; so is Muktar, but for a different reason—the visitors are riding on camels. Muktar quickly discovers that [...]

Descriptors: Africa, Kenya, Primary (ages 6-9), Realistic Fiction, Somalia » Other Themes: , , , , , , , » Leave a comment