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2022., Pre-adolescent, Viking Call No: Fic Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "Find the courage to be extraordinary... Ema Vaésková has always felt different. In a family of famous scientists, there's not much room for superstition or omens--but they seem to follow Ema wherever she goes. It doesn't help that she appears to predict events before they happen, and has a peculiar fear of shadows... When Ema is sent to stay with her eccentric uncle in Prague, she fears she'll lose the chance to ever fit in. But then she meets Silvie--a girl who finally sees Ema for the extraordinary girl that she is. Soon the girls are meeting for secret midnight adventures and facing Ema's fears together. But then disaster strikes. Silvie goes missing--and it's up to Ema to find her. Now she must gather the courage to hunt the city, find her friend, and uncover the secrets of the one clue Silvie left as to where she might be--inside the mysterious Midnight Guild..."--From the publisher's web site.
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By Tooke, Hana2020., Juvenile, Viking Call No: [Fic] Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: Five orphans are left at the Little Tulip Orphanage in outrageous circumstances that break all the Rules for Baby Abandonment--one is left in a coal bucket, one a tin toolbox, and three others in a wheat sack, picnic hamper, and coffin-shaped basket. Those babies were named Lotta, Fenna, Milou, Egg, and Sem, and the cruel Elinora Gassbeek, matron of the Orphanage, thinks they are all "unadoptable." The five don't think so, however, and band together when a sinister man appears and threatens to split their group up.
