Tag: orphan
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Title: Just Like That Author: Gary D. Schmidt Publication Info: Clarion Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2021 The Plot: In the summer of 1968, in the wake of a tragedy, the parents of Meryl Lee send her to the prestigious boarding school for her 8th grade year. Meanwhile, a homeless boy named Matt, bereft of family and…
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The Plot In 5 Sentences Or Less: When Crow was an infant, she washed ashore onto a tiny island located off of the coast of New England and a man named Osh found her and raised her as his own daughter. Local rumor held that Crow had come from the leper colony on Penikese Island, but…
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The Plot In 5 Sentences Or Less: The green boat comes to the island once a year with a new child and then ferries the eldest child on the island away — thereby obeying the rule that only 9 children may live on the island at a time. But this year seems different for Jinny…
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The Plot In Five Sentences Or Less: Will, raised as a ward of the castle and having never known his parents, faces his destiny on his Choosing Day. Hoping that he will go to fighting school, Will is surprised when the shadowy figure of Halt requests that Will join his team of Rangers, a stealthy…
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The Plot In Five Sentences Or Less: Daphne and Sabrina have bounced among foster homes for the past few years ever since their parents passed away. Their latest foster mother is an eccentric old woman calling herself Mrs. Grimm and claiming to be the girls’s grandmother. She takes the girls to her old house stocked…
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The Plot (in 5 sentences or less): Leven Thumps is a 14 year old boy in Oklahoma whose life changes when he meets Clover, a small fantastical furry creature. Through his time with Clover, Leven finds that he has the power to summon lightning and also to see into the future. They soon meet…
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Plot: 11 year old Moses LoBeau lives in the small town of Tupelo Landing, North Carolina. She has lived there most of her life since she floated in (literally) during a hurricane when she was an infant. For this reason, Mo has never known her real parents, but she is content to help run the local diner with her adopted parents Miss Lana and…
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Plot: Jeffrey Magee is a an orphaned boy who blows into the town of Two Mills, Pennsylvania (a fictional place) one afternoon. Within the first day he has already made an impression on the neighborhood. He butts into an ongoing little league game and hits line drives off of ace pitcher John McNab. He strays…
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Tree Ear is a boy who lives in a small village on the west coast of Korea in the middle of the 12th century. He spends most of his time scavenging for scraps around local trash heaps and sleeps under a bridge at night. His friend is Crane Man, an old man with a disabled…
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