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61) Ferals
Author
Series
Ferals volume 1
Pub. Date
c2015
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 9
Description
In a city ravaged by crime and corruption, 13-year-old orphan Caw's only friends are the murder of crows he has lived with since his parents flung him from their house aged only five. Caw lives in a treehouse in an abandoned city park, surviving on scraps of food and only communicating with his three crows. But a jailbreak at the prison forces him into contact with other humans -- particularly a girl called Lydia, who is attacked by the escaped prisoners...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2009]
Description
No one has ever truly touched Jack Travis's heart or soul until Ella Varner comes along. She appears one day on his doorstep with fury in her eyes and a baby in her arms. Her troubled sister is the mother, and according to Ella, Jack Travis is the father. But when Ella demands that Jack take responsibility for the first time in his life, he ends up taking much more than that.
63) Hush little baby
Author
Pub. Date
[1999]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
Description
When Dusty came to Kit's house that day, she not only thrust a baby into her arms, but all the fear and danger that came with it.
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
"On a brilliantly sunny July day, six-year-old Ruby is abandoned by her father in the suffocating dark of a Tennessee cave. Twenty years later, transformed into soap opera star Eleanor Russell, she is fired under dubious circumstances. Fleeing to Europe, she marries a glamorous stranger named Orlando Montague and keeps her past closely hidden. Together, Eleanor and Orlando start afresh in LA. Setting up house in a storybook cottage in the Hollywood...
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Description
515 PAGES. $32.95. 2009000571. MAGS HAD BEEN WORKING AT THE PIETERS' MINE FOR AS LONG AS HE COULD REMEMBER, SLAVING IN THE DARK, COLD SEAMS, LOOKING FOR SPARKLIES BESIDE THE OTHER ORPHANED AND ABANDONED CHILDREN. MAGS KNEW NOTHING OF THE WORLD BEYOND THE MINE, OR HOW UNUSUAL HIS PALTRY EXISTENCE WAS. DN
66) Born blue
Author
Pub. Date
2001.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 10
Description
Janie was four years old when she nearly drowned due to her mother's neglect. Through an unhappy foster home experience, and years of feeling that she is unwanted, she keeps alive her dream of someday being a famous singer.
67) Brother Odd
Author
Series
Odd Thomas novels volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 15
Description
St. Bartholomew's Abbey sits in majestic solitude amid the wild peaks of California's high Sierra, a haven for children otherwise abandoned, and a sanctuary for those seeking insight. Odd Thomas has come here to learn to live fully again. But trouble has a way of finding Odd Thomas, and it slinks back onto his path.
68) The baby claim
Author
Series
Alaskan oil barons volume 1
Pub. Date
20180206
Description
College lovers torn apart by a family feud get a second chance in the board room in this contemporary romance by a USA Today–bestselling author.
Rugged oil tycoon Broderick has avoided temptation for years. But an abandoned baby forces him back into his ex-lover's world. He needs Glenna. For the child, for himself . . . for untangling the ties that bind their families. For discovering who the baby's father really is. But will their passion survive...
69) Jellicoe Road
Author
Pub. Date
c 2006
Description
Abaondoned by her drug-addicted mother at the age of eleven, high school student Taylor Markham struggles with her iedntity and family history at a boarding school in Australia.
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
Wren and Sage have been left to fend for themselves in their isolated, off-the-grid, primitive cabin in upstate New York after their mother leaves with their sick younger sister to get help from the nearest town. As the months pass their hope vanishes when a stranger comes. The stranger claims to be looking for the girls' mother, and he won't leave without them. The sisters break the rule to never go beyond the forest in order to escape. But once...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
"Unscrupulous gallerist Victor Alderheim has a lot to answer for. Not only has he heartlessly tricked his young ex-wife, Jenny, out of her art gallery inheritance, but he has also abandoned his son, Kevin, to die in the middle of the Kenyan savanna. It doesn't occur to Victor that Kevin might be rescued by a Maasai medicine man, the happy-go-lucky Ole Mbatian Jr., or that he might be expeted to undergo the rituals expected of all new Maasai warriors--which...
74) The Baby Bequest
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2013.
Description
Baby on Her Doorstep Schoolteacher Ellen Thurston never expected to find love in Pepin, Wisconsin. But the moment she discovers a baby boy outside her door, it's love at first sight. While the townsfolk don't approve of Ellen as a single mother, what worries her most are her feelings for the handsome farmer who defends her decision to keep the child. Ellen is far above the reach of a German immigrant like Kurt Lang. Especially one weighted with responsibility....
75) The painted bird
Author
Pub. Date
1995.
Description
Originally published in 1965, Jerzy Kosinski's first novel is a harrowing story that follows the wanderings of a boy abandoned by his parents during World War II. It examines the proximity of terror and savagery to innocence and love.
Author
Series
Summerhill secrets volume 5
Pub. Date
c1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 4
Description
After praying to God to fill the hole in her life left by the death of her twin sister, thirteen-year-old Merry finds an abandoned baby outside her house.
Author
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Description
When fifteen-year-old Cathy decides to carpool from Norwalk to tony Greenwich, Connecticut, to study Latin in summer school, she does not expect the shocking events that occured five years earlier to suddenly come flooding back into her relatively settled life.
79) Not her daughter
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
Emma Townsend. Five years old. Gray eyes, brown hair. Missing since June. Emma is lonely. Living with her cruel mother and clueless father, Emma retreats into her own world of quiet and solitude. Sarah Walker. Successful entrepreneur. Broken-hearted. Kidnapper. Sarah has never seen a girl so precious as the gray-eyed child in a crowded airport terminal. When a second-chance encounter with Emma presents itself, Sarah takes her-far away from home. But...
Author
Pub. Date
c2010
Description
"Se supone que la Navidad es una epoca llena de alegria. Pero la vida ha sido dura para Mark Smart: tuvo que dejar de estudiar, su madre murio en un accidente, su novia lo abandono, y ahora, en plena nevada, su coche ha dejado de funcionar. A duras penas consigue llegar a una cafeteria en busca de un telefono. Pero lo que encuentra, en cambio, es una hermosa joven, que, a traves de un simple acto de amabilidad, cambia su vida para siempre..."--Dust...
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