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1) Warlight
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
289 pages ; 22 cm
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
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
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
225 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Jaden, an emotionally damaged adopted boy fascinated by electricity, feels a connection to a small, weak toddler with special needs in Kazakhstan, where Jaden's family is trying to adopt a "normal" baby.
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.
5) Virgin River
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Arriving in the remote mountain town of Virgin River in response to an ad, recently widowed Melinda realizes that she has made a mistake, until she finds an abandoned baby on her porch and lets a former Marine into her heart.
Author
Series
Hard Pan trilogy volume 1
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
NEWBERY COLLECTION. Newbery medal winner, 2007. 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.
7) Finding Noel
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
A twenty-one-year-old woman searches for clues to her past while struggling with vague memories of being sent away by her parents at the age of seven, a younger sister, and a Christmas ornament inscribed with the word, "Noel."
8) 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
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...