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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.
Author
Formats
Description
From a beguiling voice in Mexican fiction comes an astonishing novel—her first to be translated into English—about a mysterious child with the power to change a family’s history in a country on the verge of revolution. From the day that old Nana Reja found a baby abandoned under a bridge, the life of a small Mexican town forever changed. Disfigured and covered in a blanket of bees, little Simonopio is for some locals the stuff of superstition,...
63) 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.
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.
66) 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
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
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Description
When Mr. and Mrs. Deer find a baby sporting antlers on their doorstep, they take it in even though it won't stop roaring. Leaving the baby in the care of friends, the husband and wife set out in search of what the baby needs -- but each time they return, another caretaker has gone missing.
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.
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Description
"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
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.
74) 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.
Author
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...
79) The slippery map
Author
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 8
Description
Oyster R. Motel, a lonely boy raised as a foundling in a Baltimore nunnery, travels through a portal to the imaginary world of his parents, where he heroically confronts the villainous Dark Mouth.
80) The witch's boy
Author
Pub. Date
2006, c2005
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.