The Bean Trees
Taylor Greer grew up poor in rural Kentucky. She escapes to the west but by the time she arrives in Tucson, Arizona, she has acquired a three-year-old Indian girl named Turtle.
FIC
year: 2009
copies: 64
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 900
subjects: native american children, orphans [X], friendship [X], automobile travel, young women, kingsolver, barbara, indian children, women travelers, humorous fiction, bildungsromans
Kiss Me Kill Me
Longing to be part of the in-crowd at her exclusive London school, orphaned, sixteen-year-old Scarlett, a trained gymnast, eagerly accepts an invitation to a party whose disastrous outcome changes her life forever.
FIC
year: 2008
copies: 15
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 930
subjects: murder, schools, mystery and detective stories, popularity, orphans [X], england, friendship [X], wealth, homicide
A Message From The Match Girl
Georgina and Poco try to help their friend Walter who is suffering from an identity crisis and receiving strange messages from his dead mother.
FIC
year: 1997
copies: 8
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 620
Open Wounds
After an abusive childhood in 1930s New York, Cedric Wymann, now orphaned, is taken in by a cousin suffering from mustard gas poisoning who becomes a father, helps him reconnect with friends, and finds him a fencing teacher, giving Cedric a means to avenge past wrongs and forge a better future.
FIC
year: 2011
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 710
Glitz
Sixteen-year-old orphan Ann Michelle runs away from her grandmother's house in Toledo, Ohio, with a new friend who is intent on seeking her own fame while the teenagers follow a hip-hop musician to New York City.
FIC
year: 2011
copies: 2
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 720
subjects: friendship [X], runaway teenagers, grandmothers, orphans [X], musicians, ohio, new york (n.y.)
Me And Billy
After escaping the orphanage where they have spent their lives together, two boys become assistants to a con artist, and while Possum objects to the lying, stealing, and cheating, Billy only cares about making money and taking life easy.
FIC
year: 2004
copies: 6
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 760
The Red Queen's Daughter
Sixteen-year-old Mary Seymour, a white magician in Queen Elizabeth's court, has vowed never to fall in love, but her attraction to her darkly handsome cousin Edmund, a black magician who seems to understand her better than anyone, cannot be denied, and she finds her beliefs tested when he becomes involved in a plot against the queen.
FIC
year: 2009
copies: 4
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 960
subjects: magicians, ladies-in-waiting, man-woman relationships, magic, historical fiction, great britain, elizabeth, queens, friendship [X], courts and courtiers, orphans [X]
L.m. Montgomery's Anne Of Green Gables
A simplified retelling of how Anne, an eleven-year-old orphan, comes to live on Prince Edward Island farm and proceeds to make an indelible impression on everyone around her.
FIC
year: 2003
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
The Anne Of Green Gables Storybook
The story of an orphan who comes to stay at Green Gables. Illustrated with photos from the movie.
FIC
year: 2007
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
Harper & Moon
Although twelve-year-old Harper has always liked Moon, an abused, orphaned older boy, their friendship is tested by a discovery Harper makes when Moon joins the Army in 1943.
FIC
year: 1995
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 750
Wait And See
Eleven-year-old Amy faces big changes in her world, as the woman who has cared for her and her grandfather most of her life prepares to move back to England and an unusual new girl appears in her classroom at school.
FIC
year: 1994
copies: 2
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
The Anne Of Green Gables Storybook
The story of an orphan who comes to stay at Green Gables. Illustrated with photos from the movie.
FIC
year: 1987
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
Angel
From New York and Hollywood to France, a family of four friends are compelled to reevaluate their lives and strengthen their commitments.
FIC
year: 1993
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
The Inheritance
Set in an English country manor, the story follows the turbulent fortunes of Edith Adelon, an impoverished Italian orphan whose loyalty and beauty win her the patronage of wealthy friends until a jealous rival contrives to rob her of her position.
FIC
year: 1998
copies: 6
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 1240