This week, we're sharing teen books featuring orphans. Here's a few of our favorites . . . .
After a family tragedy turns her life upside down, high schooler Tohru Honda takes matters into her own hands and moves out ... into a tent! Unfortunately for her, she pitches her new home on private land belonging to the mysterious Sohma clan, and it isn't long before the owners discover her secret. But, as Tohru quickly finds out when the family offers to take her in, the Sohmas have a secret of their own -- when touched by the opposite sex, they turn into the animals of the Chinese Zodiac!
Stormbreaker by Anthony Horowitz
After the death of the uncle who had been his guardian, fourteen-year-old Alex Rider is coerced to continue his uncle's dangerous work for Britain's intelligence agency, MI6.
The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
Bod is an unusual boy who inhabits an unusual place-he's the only living resident of a graveyard. Raised from infancy by the ghosts, werewolves, and other cemetery denizens, Bod has learned the antiquated customs of his guardians' time as well as their ghostly teachings-such as the ability to Fade so mere mortals cannot see him. Can a boy raised by ghosts face the wonders and terrors of the worlds of both the living and the dead?
More Books --
The Boy and Girl Who Broke the World by Amy Reed
Burden Falls by Kat Ellis
Forbidden by Eve Bunting
The Girl I Used to Be by April Henry
If the Witness Lied by Caroline B. Cooney
The Loneliest Girl in the Universe by Lauren James
My Life With the Walter Boys by Ali Novak
Not If I See You First by Eric Lindstrom
The Orphan's Wish by Melanie Dickerson
The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
Promised Neverland series by Kaiu Shirai
The Reader by Traci Chee
Snow and Poison by Melissa de la Cruz
