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The Problem Child

author: Buckley, Michael
Sabina and Daphne Grimm enter the hideout of the Scarlet Hand in order to rescue their parents who had been kidnapped a year before, but their attempts are thwarted by the most famous fairy tale character in the world.
FIC
year: 2017
copies: 106
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 790

Charlie Bone And The Castle Of Mirrors

author: Nimmo, Jenny
Charlie and his magically gifted friends and relatives work together to rescue Billy Raven, a young orphan, from a mysterious and dangerous couple who have adopted him.
FIC
year: 2006
copies: 82
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 770

Fortune's Magic Farm

author: Selfors, Suzanne
Rescued from a rainy, boggy town where she works in a dismal factory, ten-year-old orphan Isabelle learns that she is the last surviving member of a family that tends the world's only remaining magic-producing farm.
FIC
year: 2009
copies: 16
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 680
subjects: orphans [X], magic [X], farms, fantasy fiction

The Heart Of Glass

author: French, Vivian
Gracie Gillypott and Prince Marcus embark on a dwarf-watching outing, not knowing that the dwarves are working frantically to make crowns for a royal wedding and that they have enlisted some unreliable trolls to help them, thus putting the humans' expedition in peril.
FIC
year: 2011
copies: 24
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 760
subjects: magic [X], witches, orphans [X], bats, trolls, fantasy fiction

The Hidden Gallery

author: Wood, Maryrose
Fifteen-year-old Miss Penelope Lumley, a governess trained at the Swanburne Academy for Poor Bright Females, takes the three Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place to London, England, and learns they are under a curse.
FIC
year: 2012
copies: 39
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 960

13 Curses

author: Harrison, Michelle
When fairies steal her brother, thirteen-year-old Rowan Fox promises that in exchange for his return she will find the thirteen charms that the fairies have enchanted and hidden in the human world.
FIC
year: 2012
copies: 33
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 760
subjects: fairies, kidnapping, orphans [X], blessing and cursing, magic [X]

Liesl & Po

author: Oliver, Lauren
After her father's death, Liesl is locked away in a tiny attic room by her stepmother, where she meets Po, a lonely ghost, and Will, an alchemist's apprentice who bungles an important delivery and enlists Liesl and Po's help in setting things right.
FIC
year: 2012
copies: 28
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 830

The Ogre Of Oglefort

author: Ibbotson, Eva
Ivo, an orphan boy, teams up with the Hag of Dribble and a troll called Ulf to rescue a princess from the Ogre of Oglefort, but things turn out differently when they arrive at the ogre's castle only to find a contented princess and a depressed ogre inside.
FIC
year: 2012
copies: 25
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 910

Earwig And The Witch

author: Jones, Diana Wynne
Although an orphan, Earwig has always enjoyed living at St. Morwald's, where she manages to make everyone do her bidding, but when she is taken in by foster parents who are actually a witch and a demon, she has a hard time trying to turn the situation to her advantage.
FIC
year: 2014
copies: 19
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 760
subjects: cats, magic [X], orphans [X], witches, fantasy fiction

Charlie Bone And The Shadow

author: Nimmo, Jenny
Magically-gifted Charlie Bone, accompanied by his best friend's dog, Runner Bean, comes to the rescue when the enchanter Count Harken takes revenge on the Red King's heirs by kidnapping and imprisoning Charlie's ancestors in the dark, forbidding land of Badlock.
FIC
year: 2008
copies: 45
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 730
subjects: magic [X], orphans [X], castles, boarding schools, schools, england

The Wizard Heir

author: Chima, Cinda Williams
Sixteen-year-old Seph McCauley is sent to the Havens, a boys' school in Maine, after being kicked out of several private schools for his untrained magical powers; but his headmaster, Gregory Leicester, has his own mysterious agenda when he agrees to help Seth channel his magic.
FIC
year: 2008
copies: 17
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 690

The Tiger's Apprentice

author: Yep, Laurence
A tiger, a monkey, a dragon, and a twelve-year-old Chinese American boy fight to keep a magic talisman out of the hands of an enemy who would use its power to destroy the world.
FIC
year: 2005
copies: 11
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 740

Enchanted Glass

author: Jones, Diana Wynne
Andrew Hope inherits a house in an English village from his late grandfather and things are going well until orphan Aidan shows up, trailing a host of magical townsfolk and interlopers in his wake.
FIC
year: 2011
copies: 30
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 790
subjects: magic [X], orphans [X], villages, england

The Crowfield Curse

author: Walsh, Pat
In 1347, when fourteen-year-old orphan William Paynel, an impoverished servant at Crowfield Abbey, goes into the forest to gather wood and finds a magical creature caught in a trap, he discovers he has the ability to see fays and becomes embroiled in a strange mystery involving Old Magic, a bitter feud, and ancient secrets.
FIC
year: 2011
copies: 33
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 840

Splendors And Glooms

author: Schlitz, Laura Amy
When Clara vanishes after the puppeteer Grisini and two orphaned assistants were at her twelfth birthday party, suspicion of kidnapping chases the trio away from London and soon the two orphans are caught in a trap set by Grisini's ancient rival, a witch with a deadly inheritance to shed before it is too late.
FIC
year: 2017
copies: 82
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 670

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