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Author
Series
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Formats
Description
Detective Peter Decker teams up with his wife and daughter to solve a crime rooted in both the past and present.
While on routine patrol, LAPD Officer Cindy Decker rescues a newborn abandoned in an alley dumpster. But she can't call it a night until she sees the infant safe in a hospital, cared for by a professional — in this case a male nurse with soulful eyes and lots of charm.
Now the hunt is on for the mother. Armed with advice...
While on routine patrol, LAPD Officer Cindy Decker rescues a newborn abandoned in an alley dumpster. But she can't call it a night until she sees the infant safe in a hospital, cared for by a professional — in this case a male nurse with soulful eyes and lots of charm.
Now the hunt is on for the mother. Armed with advice...
3) Warlight
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Decades after World War II, Nathaniel Williams reflects on his experiences in 1945, when his parents left him and his sister in the care of a mysterious neighbor.
Author
Series
Publisher
Silhouette
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
"#1 New York Times bestselling author Sherryl Woods brings readers the final chapter in the classic tales of the Devaneys… five brothers torn apart in childhood, reunited by love. Previously published in The Devaney Brothers: Daniel.
When a runaway teen surfaces at Molly Creighton’s tavern, Daniel Devaney’s job as a child advocate forces him to investigate…and to confront his tumultuous past with Molly. Though a tragic loss shattered their...
5) Love, Aubrey
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
While living with her Gram in Vermont, eleven-year-old Aubrey writes letters as a way of dealing with losing her father and sister in a car accident, and then being abandoned by her grief-stricken mother.
Author
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Formats
Description
Two sisters determined to be each other's family find scandal under the bright lights of Hollywood and take a trip to a wealthy Long Island carriage house before a twist of fate separates superstar Iris from her sidekick and sister, Eva, in a novel spanning three decades spent seeing the people you love through good times and bad in America.
Author
Series
Publisher
Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Formats
Description
It is 1864 and the nation is still torn apart by civil war when Heather Worth discovers she is with child. She has been working as a laundress with her husband's army unit, but when the army gets orders to march south to Tennessee, Gideon insists Heather go home to have their child under safer conditions. Heather agrees, but returns home to another kind of devastation--deaths in the family and a father who refuses to forgive her for marrying a Yankee....
Author
Series
Intervention volume Volume 2
Publisher
Zondervan
Pub. Date
2011
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
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
As mysterious circumstances bring Giuseppe, Frederick, and Hannah together, their lives soon interlock like the turning gears in a clock and they realize that each one holds a key to solving the others' mysteries.
11) Lock and key
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Formats
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
Series
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
Fearing that her legal guardian plans to abandon her to return to France, ten-year-old aspiring scientist Lucky Trimble determines to run away while also continuing to seek the Higher Power that will bring stability to her life.
Author
Series
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
In 1955, Woodrow and his cousin Gypsy befriend a new girl in their seventh grade class in rural Virginia, and the three of them set off to find Woodrow's missing mother, encountering unlikely and intriguing coincidences along the way.
14) The Ash House
Author
Publisher
Chicken House, Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Sol arrives at the Ash House, hoping for a cure to his rare disorder, but it is not what he expected and the longer he spends time there, the more his memories fade and reality blurs.
Author
Publisher
Dial
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Firm in her belief that her missing parents will return to the bombed-out circus camp where she lives with a group of "leftover" children, ten-year-old Babo has no desire to leave her war-torn country.
16) Take me with you
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
c2010
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.
17) Jellicoe Road
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen
Pub. Date
2008, c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Abandoned by her drug-addicted mother at the age of eleven, high school student Taylor Markham struggles with her identity and family history at a boarding school in Australia.
19) Marcia's madness
Author
Series
Publisher
Sandpiper/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
The Huit octuplets discover Marcia's special power--the ability to see through things--which helps when their evil neighbor calls Social Services to report that they are living alone because their parents have not returned from wherever they disappeared to.
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