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Author
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers, Inc
Language
English
Description
Having been abandoned as a newborn and found and raised by Pastor Ezekiel Freeman in the small California town of Haven, Abra Matthews feels like she doesn't belong and at the age of seventeen runs off to Hollywood, becoming starlet Lena Scott.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
332, 8 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Broken-hearted children's librarian Molly Montgomery relocates to the Florida Kays, where the discovery of an abandoned newborn in the Little Bridge Island Public Library leads to an unexpected partnership with arrogant town sheriff John Hartwell.
Author
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"When two Depression-era migrant workers, Paul and Vern, find an abandoned baby in the woods, they take it upon themselves to care for the mysterious child. When fifteen-year-old Marigold, reviled by her family after an unwanted pregnancy, loses her baby in the forest, her whole world is painted black. She's still fraught with despair when she discovers what seems to be a miraculous power within her. Coot, a child preacher on the Kansas plains, escapes...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
"Fans of Barbara Kingsolver will love this stunning debut novel from a New York Times bestselling nature writer, about an unforgettable young woman determined to make her way in the wilds of North Carolina, and the two men that will break her isolation open. For years, rumors of the "Marsh Girl" have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina coast. She's barefoot and wild; unfit for polite society. So in late 1969, when handsome Chase...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 12
Physical Desc
371 pages illustration ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Abandoned as a baby in a forest to be eaten by Shadow Creatures, twelve-year-old Bo and his pet fox embark on a quest to return the wish-granting Stars to the Ulvian sky before the Shadow Witch can steal the star magic.
Author
Series
SummerHill secrets volume 5
Publisher
Bethany House Publishers
Pub. Date
1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 4
Physical Desc
141 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
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.
9) Middletown
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Thirteen-year-old Eli likes baggy clothes, baseball caps, and one girl in particular. Her seventeen-year-old sister Anna is more traditionally feminine; she loves boys and staying out late. They are sisters...Their dad has long been out of the picture, and their mom lives at the mercy of her next drink. When their mom lands herself in enforced rehab, Anna and Eli are left to fend for themselves. Eli and Anna have each gotten used to telling lies...
Author
Series
The edge chronicles volume 1
Publisher
David Fickling Books
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
1st American ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 7
Physical Desc
276 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
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.
11) Bridge of Clay
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 19
Physical Desc
537 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
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.
12) The Match
Author
Series
Wilde volume 2
Language
English
Description
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...
Author
Series
Intervention volume 2
Publisher
Zondervan
Language
English
Description
When fifteen-year-old Lance Covington finds an abandoned baby in the backseat of a car, he knows she's the newborn daughter of a meth addict he's been trying to help. But when police arrest him for kidnapping, Lance is thrust into a criminal world of baby trafficking and drug abuse. His mother, Barbara, looks for help from Kent Harlan--the man whom she secretly, reluctantly loves and who once helped rescue her daughter from a mess of her own. Kent...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
339 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"An American GI, two Vietnamese bargirls, and an Amerasian man are forced to make decisions during and after the Viet Nam War that will reverberate throughout one another's lives"--
Language
English
Description
For years, rumors of the 'Marsh Girl' have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina coast. So, in late 1969, when handsome Chase Andrews is found dead, the locals immediately suspect Kya Clark, the so-called Marsh Girl. But Kya is not what they say. Sensitive and intelligent, she has survived for years alone in the marsh that she calls home, finding friends in the gulls and lessons in the sand. Then the time comes when she yearns to...