If you've already taken the "Literary Orphans Quiz" and are ready for the next challenge, see if you can identify these orphans from more recent children's books:
1. These children first learn they have become orphans at Briny Beach.
2. This orphan lives in a train station.
3. After his parents are murdered, this orphan is raised by ghosts.
4. This orphan's tutor, Miss Perumal, encourages him to respond to an advertisement for "special opportunities" for gifted children.
5. He was raised by his Aunt Petunia and Uncle Vernon.
6. She is trapped in an attic by her stepmother, until the night she encounters a ghost named Po and an alchemist's apprentice.
7. After the reading of their grandmother's will, these orphans compete against their relatives in a scavenger hunt to find the secret of their family's power.
8. When this orphan asks a fortune-teller whether his sister is still alive, and if so, where to find her, he is told an elephant will lead him to her.
9. She got her name from the Moon's Marshmallows box she was found in.
10. These four children love "old-fashioned" adventures and plot to become orphans.
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1. The Baudelaire children (Lemony Snicket's "A Series of Unfortunate Events").
2. Hugo (Brian Selznik's "The Invention of Hugo Cabret")
3. Nobody Ownes (Neil Gaiman's "The Graveyard Book")
4. Reynard "Renie" Muldoon (Trenton Lee Stewart's "The Mysterious Benedict Society")
5. Harry Potter
6. Liesl ("Liesl and Poe" by Lauren Oliver)
7. Amy and Dan Cahill ("39 Clues: The Maze of Bones" by Rick Riordan)
8. Peter Augustus Duschene ("The Magician's Elephant" by Kate Dicamillo)
9. Molly Moon (Georgia Byng's "Molly Moon" series)
10. Tim, Barnaby A, Barnaby B, and Jane Willoughby ("The Willoughby's by Lois Lowry)
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