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81) Jump the Cracks
Author
Publisher
Flux
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (207 pages)
Language
English
Description
What would you do? As far as I'm concerned, there's no excuse not to be decent...Especially when you're responsible for a kid. It just figures that fifteen-year old Victoria's dad fails once again to be at the train station like he's promised. Fuming, Victoria watches as a teen mom stashes her bruised little boy in the train's bathroom. When the mom gets off the train alone, Victoria decides she has had it with all the poor excuses who call themselves...
Author
Publisher
HarperVia, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
vii, 372 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"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 and adopted by a Maasai medicine man, or that he might be expected to undergo the rituals expected of all new Maasai warriors--which have him running back to Stockholm as...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"For social worker Grace Schweitzer, arriving at Ben Hochsteller's farm to pick up an abandoned baby feels like stepping into her past - especially after a blizzard forces her to stay . . . She's losing her heart to ben and the faith she once held dear, but has she changed too much to return to this life?" -- Back cover.
Will she go home when the snow stops falling? For social worker Grace Schweitzer, arriving at Ben Hochstetlers farm to pick up...
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Young Readers
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
281 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Natalia Rose Baleine Gallagher dreams of seeing whales on the beach near her new home, and is consumed with the prospect that her mother who abandoned her as a child loves and misses her, and wants Nat to find her.
86) Ferals
Author
Series
Ferals volume 1
Pub. Date
2015
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
670L
Physical Desc
273 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
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
Publisher
Love Inspired
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Olivia Marshall will do anything to make her town's bicentennial celebration a success--even work with her ex-fiancé. It's only for a few weeks and then she'll never see Ben Kincaid again. But when her four-year-old nephew is abandoned on her doorstep, Olivia finds herself asking Ben for help. Soon, their tentative truce starts to feel like something more. But will Ben's past trauma destroy their second chance...before it even starts?" -- Page [4]...
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
Paperback ed.
Lexile measure
740L
Physical Desc
244 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
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
Language
English
Description
On the surface, Brandon Willard seems like your average eight-year-old boy. He loves his mama, peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, and G. I. Joe. But Brandon's life is anything but typical.
Wise beyond his years, Brandon understands he's the only one in this world he can count on. It's an outlook that serves him well the day his mama leaves him behind at the Raleigh bus station and sets off to Canada with "her destiny" -- the latest man that she...
91) Wildflower Ridge
Author
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
458 pages ; 18 cm
Language
English
Description
Natural Born Lawman: "After breaking off relations with her husband, single mom Patsy Longhorn is wary of men in general, and facing police deputy Justin Adams should have had her running for cover. But somehow this man makes her wonder if maybe the time has come to stop running--if maybe Justin is what she's been waiting her whole life to find." -- Page [4] cover.
The Unclaimed Baby: "Sharon Adams once thought she had her whole future planned--until...
Author
Series
Ferals volume 3
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Language
English
Description
The thrilling conclusion to Ferals, a fantasy trilogy that's part Batman, part The Graveyard Book, and all high-stakes adventure. Caw has defeated the dreaded Spinning Man and vanquished the Mother of Flies. But a new feral has appeared--one who intends to uphold the Spinning Man's dark legacy. Known as the White Widow, this spider feral is determined to destroy Caw and bring Blackstone back into an era of crime and fear. Now everyone Caw holds dear...
93) Take me with you
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
640L
Physical Desc
160 pages ; 19 cm
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.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
598 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Many dedicated years working for the NYPD didn't mean much when criminal psychologist Trajan Jones was fired from the force. Now living in exile on a dairy farm in upstate New York, Trajan is reduced to teaching an online course in criminal investigation, along with his partner Mike Li, an expert in DNA evidence. But Trajan is called back to duty when a friend in county law enforcement consults him on the suspicious death of several local kids. They're...
95) Water keep
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2008
Lexile measure
770L
Physical Desc
xi, 419 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Found in the desert as a baby by monks who named him, thirteen-year-old Marcus, who has been confined to a wheelchair ever since he can remember, knows nothing of his background and endures the difficulties of his daily life in various foster homes and schools by dreaming of Farworld, a magical place whose pull seems to be getting increasingly stronger.
96) The witch's kind
Author
Publisher
Redhook Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
468 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Barrie Anne Blythe and her aunt Charlotte have always known that the other residents of their small coastal community find them peculiar -- two women living alone on the outskirts of town. It is the price of concealing their strange and dangerous family secret. But two events threaten to upend their lives forever. The first is the arrival of a mysterious abandoned baby with a hint of power like their own. The second is the sudden reappearance of...
Author
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
1st American ed.
Lexile measure
880L
Physical Desc
405 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Read by actress Ruth Jones, Eva Ibbotson's hugely entertaining The Star of Kazan is a timeless classic for listeners young and old.
In 1896, in a pilgrim church in the Alps, an abandoned baby girl is found by a cook and a housemaid. They take her home, and Annika grows up in the servants' quarters of a house belonging to three eccentric Viennese professors. She is happy there, but dreams of the day when her real mother will come to find her.
And...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
371 pages ; 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
Pub. Date
2008
Lexile measure
720L
Physical Desc
viii, 136 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
On New Year's Eve, the octuplets Huit--Annie, Durinda, Georgia, Jackie, Marcia, Petal, Rebecca, and Zinnia--discover that their parents are missing, and then uncover a mysterious note instructing them that each must find her power and her gift if they want to know what happened to their parents.
100) When we last spoke
Publisher
MVD Visual
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In 1967, sisters Juliet and Evangeline are abandoned by their mother at their unsuspecting grandparents' farm in the small southern town of Fireside. Stunned by their sudden arrival, tender-hearted Walt and champion fiddler Ruby graciously stand in for the missing parents and create one blue-ribbon recipe for a loving family. Fireside, home of radio Station KOFF, kept secrets, broken promises and to-die-for sundaes serves as the backdrop for this...