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2601) Life of Pi
Pub. Date
[2013]
Description
Emotional thematic content throughout and some scary action sequences and peril.
Based on the bestselling novel by Yann Martel. A young Pi Patel, overcoming a cataclysmic shipwreck, finds himself stranded on a lifeboat with the only survivor, a ferocious Bengal tiger named Richard Parker. Includes special features.
2602) 12 Mighty orphans
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
The true story of the Mighty Mites, the football team of a Fort Worth orphanage who, during the Great Depression, went from playing without shoes, or even a football, to playing for the Texas state championships. Over the course of their winning season, these underdogs and their resilient spirit became an inspiration to their city, state, and an entire nation in need of a rebound, even catching the attention of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. The...
2603) A shine of rainbows
Pub. Date
2011
Description
A truly inspiring story of one ordinary family's extraordinary journey. An orphaned boy named Tomas is adopted by Maire O'Donnell to live on a whimsical Irish isle filled with new friends, secret caves and a lost baby pup seal stranded on the coast. But when Maire's reluctant husband Alec refuses to accept Tomas as his own son, the boy drifts down a fateful path of adventure and self-discovery, illuminating how rainbows can shine around, and within,...
2604) The far pavilions
Pub. Date
c2000
Description
A haunting tale of the love of an English officer for an Indian princess, set against the splendor of Imperial India in the 19th century.
2605) 24 Redemption
Pub. Date
[2008]
Description
On the day of the Presidential Inauguration, Jack Bauer finds himself in the mist of a bloody uprising in the small African nation of Sangala. He must ensure that a group of orphans is evacuated out of the country to America.
2607) Heidi
Pub. Date
[2001]
Description
Story of a girl sent to live with her hermit grandfather in the Alps, where her influence reconciles her grandfather to the town. Then her aunt takes her away from the grandfather she has come to love, to live in Frankfurt as the companion of a crippled girl whom Heidi encourages to try walking again.
Pub. Date
[2009]
Description
Leslie Titmuss has never quite fit in among the denizens of Rapstone Village. Socially awkward and hailing from a humble background, he nonetheless aspires to the highest levels of society. He is ready to do whatever it takes to get there. For much of his life, Titmuss was taken under the wing of the kindly Reverend Simcox. This caused little concern for the clergyman's sons - that is, until their father dies and Titmuss inherits the family fortune....
2609) Daniel X: 2
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Description
In the sleepy town of Holliswood, a twisted alien TV producer is using his powers to throw the town into chaos--and documenting every minute of it. Fresh from his victory over Number 6, Daniel X is the only one who can stop this made-for-TV tyrant, but the devilish director has other plans. He wants to film the most spectacular finale the world has ever seen, starring Daniel himself!
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
Life used to be great for Rose: full of friends, a loving mom, and a growing fashion blog. But when her mother dies in a car crash, Rose is sent away to live with a strange grandmother she hardly knows and forced to attend a new school where mean girls ridicule her at every turn. The one place Rose finds refuge is in her grandmother's Tudor-style greenhouse. But one night, she sees a strange light glowing from within it. She climbs a ladder to investigate......
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
Under the Mistletoe: Susan Chandler has devoted her life to helping others while rarely thinking about helping herself. This year the tables will turn when a local radio station takes over her love life after an innocent call from her eight year old son. Whether she likes it or not, Susan is under the mistletoe.
Holiday Wishes: Britney, a rich, spoiled child, and Rachel, an orphan, switch bodies after visiting Santa Claus at the mall. Each girl wakes...
Author
Series
Stepping on roses volume 2
Pub. Date
2010.
Description
When Sumi Kitamura's finanacial probelms become dire, wealthy Soichiro Ashida enters her life with a bizarre proposition: he'll provide her with the money she so desperatly needs is she agrees to marry him. But is it worth giving up everything for this sham of a marriage? Sumi becomes torn when Soichiro's childhood friend Nozumu expresses romantic interest in her. While she is drawn to Nozumu, she is committed to Soichiro as his wife. As Sumi fights...
2615) Red Skull: incarnate
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2012]
Description
"As Berlin descends into chaos and ruin, sinister forces are on the rise...and the men who will form the Nazi Party ascent to power. Against this tragic backdrop of history, a boy comes of age: Johann Schmidt. Orphan, thug, urchin--Johann has nothing--and how far he would go for power will change the world" --Publisher description.
2616) Vinland saga: 4
Author
Series
Vinland saga volume 4
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
"Pushed to the brink of despair after his father attempted to have him killed, Prince Canute has experienced an awakening, transforming him from a timid, gentle boy into a clear-eyed man with the heart of a king. But a king needs a crown, and Canute now knows that nothing will be given to him. If he wants to rule, he will have to prove his ruthlessness with a plot that will change the fate of the kingdom and spatter the throne with blood! Meanwhile,...
2617) Slumdog millionaire
Author
Pub. Date
2008
Description
Accused of cheating and desperate to prove his innocence, an eighteen-year-old orphan from the slums of Mumbai reflects back on his tumultuous life while competing to win 20 million rupees on India's most popular television game show.
Author
Series
Atherton volume 1
Pub. Date
[released 2009], c2009
Description
Edgar, an eleven-year-old orphan, finds a book that reveals significant secrets about Atherton, the strictly divided world on which he lives, even as geological changes threaten to shift the power structure that allows an elite few to live off the labor of others.
2620) Dilly
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
"DILLY is the coming-of-age story of an abused orphan boy, Orville Dillard Jr., aka Dilly, who travels west from Ohio to Wyoming and ends up at the Hatterson Cattle Ranch. He also finds himself smack in the middle of the infamous and all-too-real Sheep Wars, in which dozens of sheepherders are murdered and few of the attacking cattlemen are ever held accountable"--
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