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Series
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
Lochiel Ogle was born with a red-wine birthmark and it put her life in jeopardy from the moment she entered the world. Mountain folks called it "the mark of the devil," and for all the evil that has plagued her nineteen-year existence, Lochiel is ready to believe that is true. And the evil surely took control of the mind of the boy who stole her as an infant, bringing her home for his mother to raise.
Author
Series
The Polar Bear Explorers' Club volume 1
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 11
Description
"Stella Starflake Pearl just wants to be part of the Polar Bear Explorers Club. But Stella's a girl, and everyone knows that girls aren't allowed to be explorers. Stella's ready to prove everyone wrong"--
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"Blue Bishop has a knack for finding lost things. While growing up in charming small-town Buttonwood, Alabama, she’s happened across lost wallets, jewelry, pets, her wandering neighbor, and sometimes, trouble. No one is more surprised than Blue, however, when she comes across an abandoned newborn baby in the woods, just south of a very special buttonwood tree. Sarah Grace Landreneau Fulton is at a crossroads. She has always tried so hard to do...
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Tate is different, and not just because he came from a pumpkin patch. He loves numbers, especially the number eleven, and he can count lots of things just by looking at them! But sometimes people think Tate talks nonsense. Tate never seems to mind, but his older brother, Balen, does. One day, when Tate gets lost in the bustling village market, it's up to Balen to try to understand how Tate's mind works in order to find him.
65) The orphan house
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
"As she looks at the baby wriggling in her father's arms, a bolt of recognition goes through her and she takes a step back. And it's in that moment that she begins to protect her father's secrets. 1934, Weirfield-on-Thames. Connie Burroughs loves living in the orphanage that her father runs. Exploring its nooks and crannies with her sister, hearing the pounding of a hundred pairs of feet on the wooden stairs, having a father who is doing so much good....
Author
Series
Cottage tales of Beatrix Potter volume 4
Pub. Date
[2007]
Description
When a baby arrives on her doorstep during Sawrey's annual summer fête, Beatrix Potter sets out to discover the truth about the abandoned baby, following her only clue, a scarab ring, to Hawthorn House, a legendary manor reputed to be haunted.
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"Emily receives an unexpected and precious Christmas gift: a baby girl tucked away in a decorative cradle set up outside the church, with a note begging whoever discovers the child to take care of her. Emily is granted temporary custody and realizes that if the mother is not found, she badly wants to keep baby Jane as her own. But problems and changes an adoption would bring do not sit well with her husband Dan."-Book Jacket.
68) Summer Longing
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Description
Ruth Cooperman arrives in beautiful beachside Provincetown for her retirement, renting the perfect waterfront cottage while she searches for her forever home. After years of hard work and making peace with life's disappointments, Ruth is looking forward to a carefree summer of solitude. But when she finds a baby girl abandoned on her doorstep, Ruth turns to her new neighbors for help and is drawn into the drama of the close-knit community. The appearance...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 2
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 Ccile grows and she hears rumors of yellow fever.
70) Bird
Author
Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Miranda, a small, delicate girl easily carried off by the wind, lands at Bourne Manor on the coast of Lake Champlain and is raised by the dour Wysteria Barrows, but she begins to believe rumors that the Manor is cursed and, aided by a new friend and kites secreted in an attic, seeks to escape.
Author
Series
The Littles volume 11
Pub. Date
1991.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 2
Description
Major Nick Little and his band of soldiers find two babies abandoned in Trash City and they must find out how they got there.
Author
Series
Monster blood tattoo volume 3
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.7 - AR Pts: 27
Description
Accused of being a monster instead of human, Rossamünd Bookchild looks to monster-hunter Branden Rose for help, but powerful forces are after them both, believing that Rossamünd holds the secret to perpetual youth.
Author
Pub. Date
2005, c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 6
Description
Ten-year-old Solomon Snow, a foundling who was discovered with a distinctive silver spoon in his mouth, sets out to find his parents and receives help along the way from an aspiring writer, a precocious young circus performer, and several orphans.
Author
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 16
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.
76) Tumbleweed Baby
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Long ago in Nowhere, Texas, Mama and Papa Upagainstit agree to take in the wild baby their five children find in a passing tumbleweed, despite the objections of the one who used to be "the littlest-of-all girl."
Author
Series
Monster blood tattoo volume 1
Pub. Date
2007, c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 12
Description
Having grown up in a home for foundlings and possessing a girl's name, Rossam�nd sets out to report to his new job as a lamplighter and has several adventures along the way as he meets people and monsters who are more complicated that he previously thought.
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Series
Tupelo Landing volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 10
Description
"A rumor that Blackbeard's buried treasure is somewhere near Tupelo Landing causes pirate fever to sweep through town just as clues about Mo's Upstream Mother surface and the Desperado Detectives--aka Mo LoBeau and her best friends Dale and Harm--take on the most important case of Mo's life"--
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Series
Secrets of Bliss Valley volume 2
Pub. Date
c2022.
Description
For Amish widow Naomi Ropp, moving back to her parents' Bliss Valley home is a chance to start over and bury the painful secrets of her marriage forever. But her parents have been keeping a secret and now her only confidant is her father's new employee, who was once her childhood tormentor. Samuel King knows more than anyone should about mistakes--and the way he treated Naomi is at the top of his list. But the shock of seeing her again is overshadowed...