Three Times Lucky
Washed ashore as a baby in tiny Tupelo Landing, North Carolina, Mo LoBeau, now eleven, and her best friend Dale turn detective when the amnesiac Colonel, owner of a cafe? and co-parent of Mo with his cook, Miss Lana, seems implicated in a murder.
FIC
year: 2014
copies: 214
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 560
subjects: restaurants, community life, identity (psychology), murder, foundlings, north carolina, identity, mystery and detective stories [X], individuality, homicide, orphans [X], mystery fiction [X], mystery fiction, identity (philosophical concept), electronic books [X], electronic books
Boxcar Children
A graphic novel adaptation of Gertrude Chandler Warner's story in which four orphaned children, afraid to go live with their grandfather, set up housekeeping in an abandoned boxcar.
741.5
year: 2009
copies: 5
call number/section: 741.5
lexile:
subjects: boxcar children (fictional characters), orphans [X], family life, mystery graphic novels, comic books, strips, etc, warner, gertrude chandler, families, graphic novels, electronic books [X], boxcar children (fictitious characters), mystery and detective stories [X], cartoons and comics, mystery fiction [X], detective and mystery stories, family, mystery comic books, strips, etc, graphic novels
The League Of Beastly Dreadfuls
Anastasia, nearly eleven, is snatched from her elementary school and sent to live at a former insane asylum with two great aunts she had never met after being told that her parents died in a tragic vacuum cleaner accident.
FIC
year: 2015
copies: 9
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 780
subjects: mystery and detective stories [X], shadows, kidnapping, aunts, orphans [X], humorous stories, shades and shadows, humorous fiction, mystery fiction, mystery fiction [X], detective and mystery stories, electronic books [X]
The Detective's Assistant
"In 1859, eleven-year-old Nell goes to live with her aunt, Kate Warne, the first female detective for Pinkerton's National Detective Agency.
FIC
year: 2015
copies: 17
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: lincoln, abraham, sex role, orphans [X], aunts, mystery and detective stories [X], chicago (ill.), pinkerton's national detective agency, gender role, mystery fiction, mystery fiction [X], detective and mystery stories, electronic books [X]