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41) When I found you
Author
Publisher
Amazon Publishing
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
397 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Publisher
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (460 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A young girl is destined to liberate her world from the grip of the Magisterium, which represses people's ties to magic and their animal spirits known as daemons. Based on author Philip Pullman's beloved trilogy.
44) The wonderling
Author
Series
Wonderling volume 1
Lexile measure
820L
Description
In this extraordinary debut novel with its deft nod to Dickensian heroes and rogues, Mira Bart©đk tells the story of Arthur, a shy, fox-like groundling with only one ear and a desperate desire to belong, as he seeks his destiny.
45) If you find me
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
HL 750L
Physical Desc
248 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"There are some things you can't leave behind... A broken-down camper hidden deep in a national forest is the only home fifteen year-old Carey can remember. The trees keep guard over her threadbare existence, with the one bright spot being Carey's younger sister, Jenessa, who depends on Carey for her very survival. All they have is each other, as their mentally ill mother comes and goes with greater frequency. Until that one fateful day their mother...
Author
Publisher
Crown Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
800L
Physical Desc
324 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Lexington, a foundling raised in a zoo, spends a summer cementing friendships, growing closer to the elephant that saved her life, and learning about her family and herself.
47) Dead silence
Author
Series
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
384 pages ; 17 cm
Language
English
Description
"Staring into his frightened blue eyes, investigative genealogist Amelia Crenshaw Haines vows to help this silent little boy who is unable--or unwilling--to communicate his past. Though her own roots remain shrouded in mystery, she relies on tangible DNA evidence to help fellow foundlings uncover theirs...until a remarkable twist of fate presents a stranger bearing an eerily familiar childhood souvenir. NYPD Missing Persons Detective Stockton Barnes...
48) The witch's boy
Author
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
920L
Physical Desc
377 pages ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
A grotesque foundling turns against the witch who sacrificed almost everything to raise him when he becomes consumed by the desire for money and revenge against those who have hurt him, but he eventually finds his true heart's desire.
Author
Publisher
Peachtree Publishers
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
730L
Physical Desc
136 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Property Jones and her family are in dire straits when they win a drawing for the greatest bookstore in England but the previous owner was hiding something nearly as big as Property's secret.--
Author
Pub. Date
1998
Physical Desc
vii, 982 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Fielding's classic novel chronicles the adventures of Tom Jones, who was abandoned as an infant and grows into a lusty, imprudent young man. Promising to mend his ways, Tom competes with an abusive rival for the affections of a wealthy squire's daughter, and eventually learns the truth about his identity.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2011
Lexile measure
740L
Physical Desc
91 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Marie-Grace discovers a baby outside her father's office and a slave catcher claims the boy, she helps place him at a white orphanage where she becomes a volunteer, as her friendship with Cécile grows and she hears rumors of yellow fever.
Author
Publisher
Razorbill
Pub. Date
2013.
Lexile measure
830L
Physical Desc
328 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Raised in luxury as the pampered, adopted heiress of Enrico Vultusino, godfather of the Seven -- the powerful Families that rule magic-ridden New Haven -- Camille knows that she is not really Family. Unlike them, she is a mortal with a past that lies buried in trauma. Then she meets the mysterious Tor and begins to uncover the secrets of her birth ... to find out where she comes from and why her past is threatening her now.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"After he wrecks his car, Dr. Caleb Sutter finds himself stranded in an Amish community in Texas. What he didn't count on is becoming the temporary co-guardian to an abandoned newborn, along with pretty Amish teacher Rebecca Schroder. But the baby soon raises questions about his own family history, catching Caleb at a crossroads between his past--and the love he never expected to find." -- Page [4] cover.
Author
Series
Gunsmith volume 399
Publisher
Jove Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
Jove mass-market edition.
Physical Desc
186 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Clint Adams has always tried to do the right thing. But when he finds a toddler roaming a trail in Wyoming, he makes a choice that leads him down a path toward his toughest challenge yet--and possibly his last. With the child in one hand and his gun near the other, Clint rides into a nearby town, where he finds a mysterious mayor, a sheriff who's had one hard night too many, and a madam who'd be happy to start a home with the Gunsmith and his precious...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
275 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Abandoned as an infant by his actress mother in her theater dressing room, August March was raised by an ancient laundress. Highly intelligent, a tax feral, August is a true child of the theater. But like all productions, August's wondrous time inside the theater comes to a close, and he finds himself in the wilds of postwar New York City, where he quickly rises from pickpocket street urchin to star student at the stuffiest boarding school in the...
Author
Publisher
HQN
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
298 pages ; 17 cm
Language
English
Description
"When Chandra Hill is awakened by a cry in the night, she is shocked to discover an abandoned newborn in her barn. She rushes him to the hospital, but as a former pediatrician, Chandra finds her instincts have already kicked in. Before she knows it, she's discussing options for the baby with emergency room doctor Dallas O'Rourke. Dallas finds himself bonding instantly with the baby--and with the intriguing woman who brought him in. Though Chandra...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Lexile measure
600L
Physical Desc
289 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Kaye Umansky combines humor and a Dickensian atmosphere to bring young readers into the unlikely world of Solomon Snow. Solly's life stinks. He lives with Ma and Pa Scubbins in a rundown cottage outside of the village of Boring working as a delivery boy for their laundry service. But his luck soon changes when Ma lets slip a little secret-Solly was left on their doorstep as an infant with a silver spoon in his mouth. Solly sets out to find his spoon...
58) The druid
Author
Series
Dawning of Muirwood volume 1
Publisher
47North
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
321 pages : map ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Eilean was born a 'wretched'--A lowly foundling raised by the Aldermaston of Tintern Abbey. Then she's chosen to assist in establishing the new abbey of Muirwood, now the site of a castle in the swampy Bearden Muir. Eilean's role is as night servant to the druid Mordaunt, the king's exiled advisor--and prisoner. He's clever, dangerous, and invaluable to the Aldermaston. Mordaunt's priceless secret: the hiding place of an ancient tome that reveals...
Author
Series
Secrets of Bliss Valley volume 2
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
463 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"For Amish widow Naomi Ropp, moving back to her parents' Bliss Valley home--with her boisterous twin toddler boys--is a chance to start over and bury the painful secrets of her marriage forever. But her life is turned upside down once again when she learns she's not the only one hiding things. The parents she believed were always open and honest have been keeping a secret her whole life. And now her only confidant is her father's new employee--a handsome...
Author
Series
Bitterbynde volume 1
Pub. Date
2001
Physical Desc
437 pages : map ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
In a dark and perilous realm, an outcast without a name or a memory seeks a voice, a past, and a future in the first installment of a modern classic fantasy trilogy In all of Erith, there is perhaps no one as wretched as the nameless mute foundling confined to the lowest depths of Isse Tower. Abused by many and despised by all, the pathetic creature lives without memories in the shadows. The amnesiac longs to escape-to roam the wild landscape in search...