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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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When twelve-year-old Raymond and his pup Rosie are abandoned by his family, he uses his wilderness skills to survive in the woods, but as winter comes, he realizes his wits are not enough, and that perhaps it is time he starts trusting others with his secret.
Author
Series
Hard Pan trilogy volume 1
Language
English
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Fearing that her legal guardian plans to abandon her to return to France, ten-year-old aspiring scientist Lucky Trimble determines to run away while also continuing to seek the Higher Power that will bring stability to her life.
3) Homecoming
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
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Description
Abandoned by their mother, four children begin a search for a home and an identity.
4) Love, Aubrey
Author
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
While living with her Gram in Vermont, eleven-year-old Aubrey writes letters as a way of dealing with losing her father and sister in a car accident, and then being abandoned by her grief-stricken mother.
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
In all the years that Elinora Gassbeek has been matron of the Little Tulip Orphanage, not once have the Rules for Baby Abandonment been broken--until the autumn of 1880, when five babies are left in outrageous circumstances: one in a tin toolbox, one in a coal bucket, one in a picnic hamper, one in a wheat sack, and finally, one in a coffin-shaped basket ... And although their cruel matron might think they're 'unadoptable,' they know their individuality...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Seven years ago, the Ballastian sisters' parents left them in the magical Straygarden Place, a house surrounded by tall silver grass and floating trees. They left behind a warning saying never to leave the house or go into the grass. "Wait for us," the note read. "Sleep darkly." Ever since then, the house itself has taken care of Winnow, Mayhap, and Pavonine--feeding them, clothing them, even keeping them company--while the girls have waited and...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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Description
Set during World War II, this ... historical novel relays the events of one summer from three engaging points of view. On the morning of the dedication of the new children's library in Belle Beach, Long Island, eleven-year-old Julie Sweet and her six-year-old sister, Martha, find a baby in a basket on the library steps. At the same time, twelve-year-old Bruno Ben-Eli is on his way to the train station to catch the 9:15 train into New York City. He...
Author
Series
Edge chronicles. Original series volume 1
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Twig, having always looked and felt different from his woodtroll family, learns that he is adopted and travels out of his Deepwoods home to find the place where he belongs.
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Language
English
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Lost at sea while sailing with his wealthy owners, a Yorkshire terrier washes up, nearly dead, in a village on Prince Edward Island where he is nursed back to health by a lonely widow and is befriended by a fox and an abandoned waif who is also struggling to find a home for herself somewhere.
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
Español
Description
Por más que lo intento ya no recuerdo la cara de mamá. En realidad, son pocas las cosas que recuerdo de ella. Se fue hace mucho tiempo y no ha cumplido su promesa de regresar por Juana y por mí. Decidí que, si ella no venía por nosotros, yo iría hacia ella. Sólo necesito saber que aún nos quiere. Dicen que el viaje es muy peligroso, pero no hay vuelta atrás, tengo que llegar a Estados Unidos con ella. Por lo menos no tengo que hacer este...
12) Bridge of clay
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Language
English
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Upon their father's return, the five Dunbar boys, who have raised themselves since their mother's death, begin to learn family secrets, including that of fourth brother Clay, who will build a bridge for complex reasons, including his own redemption.
13) The ash house
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Description
An unsettling, gripping middle grade debut about searching for a sense of belonging in the wrong places, and the bravery it takes to defy those who seek to control us. This is Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children meets Lord of the Flies for fans of Neil Gaiman and Holly Black. When Eleven-year-old Sol arrives at the Ash House, desperate for a cure for his complex pain syndrome, he finds a community of strange children long abandoned by their...
15) Don't look now
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Series
Language
English
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"Teen hackers Noa and Peter struggle to take down the AMRF corporation while rescuing foster kids from AMRF's gruesome experiments"--
16) Our subway baby
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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Description
Some babies are born into their families. Some are adopted. This is the story of how one baby found his family in the New York City subway.
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