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21) Firefly Cloak
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English
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Firefly Cloak is the powerfully vivid coming-of-age story of Tessa Lee, who, after being abandoned by her mother, sets off on a risky journey to discover what she has lost.
When eight-year-old Tessa Lee and her brother, Travis, are abandoned in a campground by their desperate mother and her boyfriend of the moment, they are left with only two things: a phone number written in Magic Marker on Travis's back and their mother's favorite housecoat, which...
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Series
Publisher
Love inspired
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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"When Amish midwife Lovina Albrecht finds an abandoned baby, she's determined to give the child a home for the holidays--even if doing so brings up difficult memories. But she's not prepared for her bishop to assign standoffish Jonah Lapp to help care for the little girl. As their temporary arrangement begins to feel like family, can they overcome old hurts to build a future?"--Back cover.
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Series
Publisher
Harlequin Enterprises ULC
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Not all families come as planned…
The Christmas that changed all three of them!
After her dreams of motherhood were dashed, Felicity Hart is determined to make a fresh-baby-free-start in Lovestruck. Unfortunately, she now has to work with firefighter Wade Ericson on the town Christmas festivities! And Wade ends up at the center of all things baby-related in town-this time, a baby abandoned at the firehouse. Then Felicity finds herself moving in...
24) The odds
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English
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The Homicide Department is upside down-Richard Christie is in the hospital, Artie Dolan is headed away on vacation, John Potocki's life is falling apart, and Colleen Greer is so worried about her boss's health, she can hardly think. A young boy in Pittsburgh's North Side neighborhood dies of a suspicious overdose. The Narcotics police are working on tips and they draft Colleen and Potocki to help them. In this same neighborhood, four young kids have...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 17
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English
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When she is abandoned by her alcoholic mother, high school senior Ruby winds up living with Cora, the sister she has not seen for ten years, and learns about Cora's new life, what makes a family, how to allow people to help her when she needs it, and that she too has something to offer others.
29) Bridge of Clay
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Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 19
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English
Description
The breathtaking story of five brothers who bring each other up in a world run by their own rules. As the Dunbar boys love and fight and learn to reckon with the adult world, they discover the moving secret behind their father's disappearance. At the center of the Dunbar family is Clay, a boy who will build a bridge--for his family, for his past, for greatness, for his sins, for a miracle. The question is, how far is Clay willing to go? And how much...
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English
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"From Liane Moriarty, author of the #1 New York Times bestsellers Big Little Lies and Truly Madly Guilty , comes an unforgettable novel defined by her signature sharp wit, page-turning storyline, and lovable and eccentric characters. Sophie Honeywell always wondered if Thomas Gordon was the one who got away. He was the perfect boyfriend, but on the day he was going to propose, she broke his heart. A year later he married his travel agent, while Sophie...
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Series
Publisher
Harlequin
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
A Family All Her Own At twenty-seven, Rose Kellogg knows it's unlikely that she'll ever marry. Her dreams of motherhood seem hopeless. Until she rescues Alf, a young boy abandoned in her father's barn in Cottonwood Falls, Kansas. In Alf, Rose finally has hope again, and she's not alone ... Cattle rancher Seth Montgomery always felt awkward around people, but that's not the case with Rose and Alf. Seth instantly bonds with the shy boy and is eager...
32) Blue Monday
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Psychotherapist Frieda Klein is caught up in the disappearance of five-year-old Matthew Farraday when one of her patients, Alan Dekker, tells her the dreams he has been having of desperately wanting a child and the description he gives matches Matthew perfectly but Detective Chief Inspector Karlsson doesn't believe they are one and the same until he uncovers a link from an unsolved abduction twenty year ago.
33) Partners
Author
Publisher
Barbour Publishing, Inc
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
A knock at Dale Hathaway's door changes the course of her life. Who would abandon a child on the steps of a boardinghouse on such a blustery night? Journalist George Rand is determined to find out, but first, he and Dale must work together to rescue the child. United in their efforts, can a lasting friendship develop for two lonely people?
34) Coo
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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"Coo, a ten-year-old girl raised by a flock of pigeons, delights in finally making human contact, but quickly learns that our world is more cruel and complicated than she could have guessed"--
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Series
Publisher
Harlequin
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Will an abandoned child bring them together? Or tear them apart? Cowboy Jericho Johnson lives a good life working on the Rebel family's Texas ranch. All he's missing is a wonderful woman like Anamarie Wiznowski. But Rico's troubled past and Ana's disapproving family conspire against them. When Rico is named guardian to a four-year-old boy, he asks Ana for help. And suddenly, he's falling faster than Christmas snow . . . for Ana, sweet little Dusty...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
In Leaving Haven , Kathleen McCleary, author of A Simple Thing , explores the intricacies of love, friendship, and parenthood. Georgia longs for a baby, but she's had miscarriage after miscarriage since her daughter was born more than a decade ago. Through a miraculous egg donation, Georgia is thrilled to find herself pregnant -- until she makes a startling discovery that changes her mind about how much she really wants the baby ... Georgia's best...
38) Take me with you
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Raised in an Italian orphanage in the years following World War II, a biracial girl named Susanna and her best friend Pina want to be adopted but fear being separated.
39) The match
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Series
Wilde volume 2
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Harlan Coben returns to Wilde, the man with a past shrouded in mystery who appeared one day in the Ramapo Mountains with no memory of how he got there or the mother and father who abandoned him. Wilde uncovers a major break in the case that may hold the key to revealing the truth of his origins. But the discovery links him with a present-day disappearance and presumed suicide that is much more than at first it appears.
Wilde has grown up knowing...
40) Girl in pieces
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2016].
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
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Description
As she struggles to recover and survive, seventeen-year-old homeless Charlotte "Charlie" Davis cuts herself to dull the pain of abandonment and abuse.
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