Catalog Search Results
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the 1930s, New York is swarming with Europe's ousted dreamers, alien families adapting to a new world. Rose Meadows unknowingly enters the lives of one such family when she answers an ad for an "assistant" to a Herr Mitwisser, the patriarch of a large household living in an obscure little neighborhood, in a remote corner of the sparse and weedy northeast Bronx. With an uncertain future, and no clear idea of her duties, Rose-orphaned at eighteen...
43) Street boys
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2002
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 18
Physical Desc
xviii, 326 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
44) All my tomorrows
Author
Series
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
523 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
46) The inheritance
Author
Publisher
Dutton Books
Pub. Date
1997
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.3 - AR Pts: 7
Physical Desc
188 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
47) Hawkes Harbor
Author
Publisher
Tor Books
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 9
Physical Desc
251 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
48) The BFG
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Kidsnatched from her orphange by a BFG (Big Friendly Giant), who spends his life blowing happy dreams to children, Sophie concocts with him a plan to save the world from nine other man-gobbling cannybull giants.
49) Hounded
Author
Series
Andy Carpenter novels volume 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
Andy Carpenter isn't sure what to think when he gets a mysterious phone call from a good friend, policeman Pete Stanton, asking him to drop everything, drive to an unfamiliar address, and bring his girlfriend, Laurie Collins. He certainly isn't expecting to show up at a crime scene. But that's exactly where he arrives at the house where Pete has just discovered the body of ex-convict Danny Balfour.
50) Ed King: a novel
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Formats
Description
When a mild-mannered actuary sleeps with the sexy British au pair who's taking care of his children in Seattle in 1962, he sets in motion a tragedy of epic proportions. Their orphaned child, adopted and adored, grow up to be Edward Aaron King, a billionaire Internet tycoon and international celebrity-- who unknowingly hurtles through life toward a fate he may have no power to shape.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Soon after her twenty-fifth birthday, Libby Jones returns home from work to find the letter she's been waiting for her entire life. She rips it open with one driving thought: I am finally going to know who I am. She soon learns not only the identity of her birth parents, but also that she is the sole inheritor of their abandoned mansion on the banks of the Thames in London's fashionable Chelsea neighborhood, worth millions. Everything in Libby's...
52) Royal: a novel
Author
Language
English
Description
Summer, 1943. The King and Queen choose to send their youngest daughter, Princess Charlotte, to live with a noble family in the country. Despite her headstrong nature, the princess's fragile health poses far too great a risk for her to remain in war-torn London. She arrives in Yorkshire under an alias; only her guardians know her true identity. Charlotte befriends a young evacuee, trains with her cherished horse-- and falls deeply in love with her...
Author
Language
English
Description
"When Dr. Croft takes in orphan Eleanor Beady, he doesn't realize that he's gained an apprentice. Raised amidst Croft's experiments, "Nora" becomes his most trusted assistant--an unthinkable and unlawful pursuit for a woman. Nora helps Croft's groundbreaking research and his clinic gain recognition, and she finds she doesn't mind working in the background, as long as she can continue to hone her skills. But the arrival of a new surgical resident threatens...
Author
Series
Crowthistle chronicles volume 2
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 36
Physical Desc
480 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Her world shattered by the untimely deaths of her parents, Jewel learns that she is the last surviving member of a family line containing a mystical power sought by the evil King Uabhar.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 39
Language
English
Formats
Description
"My name is Kvothe. I have stolen princesses back from sleeping barrow kings. I burned down the town of Trebon. I have spent the night with Felurian and left with both my sanity and my life. I was expelled from the University at a younger age than most people are allowed in. I tread paths by moonlight that others fear to speak of during day. I have talked to Gods, loved women, and written songs that make the minstrels weep. You may have heard of me....
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the coming centuries the world's population has exploded. The earth's crowded with cities, animals are nearly all extinct, and drought's so widespread that water is rationed. There are no maps, no borders, no numbered years, and no freedom, except for an elite few. It's a harsh world for an orphan like Nadia Stepan, and she dreams of a green vacation spot called Lighthouse Island, in a place called the Pacific Northwest.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"1629: A newly orphaned young girl named Mayken is bound for the Dutch East Indies on the Batavia, one of the greatest ships of the Dutch Golden Age. Curious and mischievous, Mayken spends the long journey going on misadventures above and below the deck, searching for a mythical monster. But the true monsters might be closer than she thinks. 1989: A lonely boy named Gil is sent to live off the coast of Western Australia among the seasonal fishing...
58) Crow Lake
Author
Publisher
Dial Press
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
293 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In the rural farm country of northern Ontario, the lives of two families--the farming Pye family, and zoologist Kate Morrison and her three brothers--are brought together and torn apart by misunderstanding, resentment, family love, and tragedy.
59) The orphanmaster
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
418 p. : maps ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
It is 1663 in the tiny, hardscrabble Dutch colony of New Amsterdam, now present-day southern Manhattan. Orphan children are going missing, and among those looking into the mysterious state of affairs are a quick-witted twenty-two-year-old trader, Blandine van Couvering, herself an orphan, and a dashing British spy named Edward Drummond. --From dust jacket.
Author
Publisher
Aladdin Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2005, c2004
Edition
1st Aladdin Paperbacks ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
243 p. : map ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Just when his dreams of being part of a family and having a dog seem to be coming true, Tom wonders if trouble with neighbors on his new island home and the impending birth of a new baby will change everything.
In Interlibrary Loan
Didn't find what you need? Items not owned by Salina Public Library can be requested from other Interlibrary Loan libraries to be delivered to your local library for pickup.
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Materials Request Service. Submit Request