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When ten-year-old orphan Peter Augustus Duchene encounters a fortune teller in the marketplace one day and she tells him that his sister, who is presumed dead, is in fact alive, he embarks on a remarkable series of adventures as he desperately tries to find her.

Ten-year-old Nate is sent to live with a family cousin, the world's last beastologist, after his parents are declared lost at sea, but danger mounts when he is brought on an expedition to the Arabian desert, gets lost, and must protect a newly hatched phoenix egg and rescue his guardian.

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.

Sixteen-year-old Pi, having spent an idyllic childhood in India as the son of a zookeeper, sets off with his family to start anew in Canada, but his life takes an unexpected turn when their ship sinks in the Pacific, leaving him adrift in a lifeboat with a Bengal tiger, an orangutan, a zebra, and a hyena for company.

Targeted by a hitman and under threat of his past being exposed by the media, Alex reluctantly turns to MI6.

In 1611 Japan, English orphan Jack Fletcher continues his difficult training during his first year at samurai school while Dragon Eye, the ninja who killed his father, seeks him out to obtain a navigational logbook, and Jack's only hope of survival rests on his success in an ancient ritual.

In the wilderness lake country of northern Minnesota, an orphaned twelve-year-old girl and a wolf pup share a rare bond.

Sold into slavery by his uncle, Davie Balfour is pressed into service as cabin boy to the drunken captain who kidnapped him and sees no way out of his predicament until Alan Breck Stewart, an exiled Jacobite, comes aboard.

"When Alfie McQuinn, the notorious jewel thief, is killed on a job, his last words to his son, March, are to "find jewels" and this instruction leads the boy to Jules, the twin sister he never knew he had--and the perfect partner to carry on the family business"--Provided by publisher.

Dessa convinces the smuggler Quinn to transport her, Topper and Fisk to the mysterious Island of Astaroth.

"In this futuristic high-stakes adventure, humanity clings to cities on the highest mountain peaks above the deadly Fog, and airships transport the pirates of the skies.

In 1910, Audacity Jones is an eleven-year-old orphan living a monotonous life at Miss Maisie's School for Wayward Girls, and wondering why nothing exciting ever happens--but when the mysterious Commodore Crutchfield whisks her away to Washington D.

Desperate for money to pay for an experimental treatment that could save his ill grandfather's life, high school senior James enters a mysterious contest that will award the winner ten million dollars if he completes ten secret tasks assigned by the Benefactor.

Wally, who was adopted from a Russian orphanage and raised in a wealthy New York City family, finds herself living on the streets at fifteen, and, at sixteen, she sets out to locate her birth mother before her Russian gangster father can.

While searching for more clues to the murder of his circus performer parents, talented magician Danny Woo follows the Mysterium circus to Barcelona, where he discovers a traitor and a dangerous woman in green.