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- The Wolves of Willoughby Chase, by Joan Aiken.
- Wicked wolves and a grim governess threaten Bonnie and her cousin Sylvia when
Bonnie's parents leave Willoughby Chase for a sea voyage. Left in the care of
the cruel Miss Slighcarp, the girls can hardly believe what is happening to
their once happy home. The servants are dismissed, the furniture is sold, and
Bonnie and Sylvia are sent to a prison-like orphan school. It seems as if the
endless hours of drudgery will never cease. With the help of Simon the gooseboy
and his flock, they escape. But how will they ever get Willoughby Chase free
from the clutches of the evil Miss Slighcarp?
- A House Called Awful End,
by Phillip Ardagh.
- When eleven-year-old Eddie Dickens's ill parents
become "a bit crinkly round the edges," he is taken by his great-uncle and
great-aunt, Mad Uncle Jack and Mad Aunt Maude, and embarks on adventures that
involve strolling actors, St. Horrid's Home for Grateful Orphans, and a carnival
float shaped like a giant cow
- Spiderwick Chronicles: The Field Guide, by Holly Black and Tony DiTerlizzi.
- When the Grace children go to stay at
their Great Aunt Lucinda's worn Victorian house, they discover a field
guide to fairies and other creatures and begin to have some unusual
experiences.
- Molly Moon's Incredible Book of Hypnotism,
by Georgia Byng.
- Unlucky and unloved, Molly Moon,
living in a dreary orphanage in a small English town, discovers a
hidden talent for hypnotism and hypnotizes her way to stardom in New
York City.
- Ruby Holler, by Sharon Creech.
- Thirteen-year-old fraternal twins
Dallas and Florida have grown up in a terrible orphanage but their
lives change forever when an eccentric but sweet older couple invites
them each on an adventure, beginning in an almost magical place called
Ruby Holler.
- James & the Giant Peach,
Roald Dahl.
- A young boy escapes from two
wicked aunts and embarks on a series of adventures with six giant
insects he meets inside a giant peach.
- Half-A-Moon Inn, by Paul Fleischman.
- A mute boy is held captive by the
strange proprietress of an inn.
- Coraline,
by Neil Gaiman.
- Looking for excitement, Coraline
ventures through a mysterious door into a world that is similar, yet
disturbingly different from her own, where she must challenge a
gruesome entity in order to save herself, her parents, and the souls
of three others.
- Olivia Kidney, by Ellen Potter.
- Twelve-year-old Olivia explores her
new apartment building and finds a psychic, talking lizards, a
shrunken ex-pirate, an exiled princess, ghosts, and other unusual
characters.
- Spring-Heeled Jack,
Phillip Pullman.
- Three children make their escape from
a London orphanage and after a series of misadventures are reunited
with their father through the efforts of the legendary Spring-Heeled
Jack.
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