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2) Lock and key
Author
Language
English
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
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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Description
In a near future world of heat, greed, and hunger, Devin earns a coveted spot in a home for abandoned children that promises unlimited food and toys and the hope of finding a new family, but Devin discovers the home's horrific true mission when he investigates its intimidating Administrator and the zombie-like sickness that afflicts some children.
5) Middletown
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Thirteen-year-old Eli likes baggy clothes, baseball caps, and one girl in particular. Her seventeen-year-old sister Anna is more traditionally feminine; she loves boys and staying out late. They are sisters ... Their dad has long been out of the picture, and their mom lives at the mercy of her next drink. When their mom lands herself in enforced rehab, Anna and Eli are left to fend for themselves. Eli and Anna have each gotten used to telling lies...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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Told from three viewpoints, a brisk historical tale follows the experiences of two sisters who discover an abandoned baby on the library steps, while their estranged friend, racing to complete an important errand for his World War II soldier brother, jumps to the wrong conclusion.
7) Homecoming
Author
Series
Language
English
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Description
Abandoned by their mother, four children begin a search for a home and an identity.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Language
English
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Description
Seventeen-year-old Lucille is struggling to get through each day, paying bills and looking after her little sister, Wren, while her father is institutionalized after a breakdown and her mother is "on vacation," but nothing else seems to matter when she is with Digby Jones, her best friend's twin brother.
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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Description
Upon their father's return, the five Dunbar boys, who have raised themselves since their mother's death, begin to learn family secrets, including that of fourth brother Clay, who will build a bridge for complex reasons, including his own redemption.
10) The ash house
Author
Publisher
Chicken House/Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"When eleven-year-old Sol arrives at the Ash House, desperate for a cure for his complex pain syndrome, he finds a community of strange children long abandoned by their mysterious Headmaster. The children at the Ash House want the new boy to love their home as much as they do. They give him a name like theirs. They show him the dorms and tell him about the wonderful oasis that the Headmaster has created for them. But the new boy already has a name....
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
When twelve-year-old Raymond and his pup Rosie are abandoned by his family, he uses his wilderness skills to survive in the woods, but as winter comes, he realizes his wits are not enough, and that perhaps it is time he starts trusting others with his secret.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2014]
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.
15) Don't look now
Author
Series
Persefone trilogy (Michelle Gagnon) volume 2
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
©2013.
Language
English
Description
"Teen hackers Noa and Peter struggle to take down the AMRF corporation while rescuing foster kids from AMRF's gruesome experiments"--
16) Nobody knows
Author
Publisher
Groundwood Books/House of Anansi Press
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Akira must take care of his younger siblings after they are abandoned by their mother and left to fend for themselves in a Tokyo apartment.
Author
Series
Persefone trilogy (Michelle Gagnon) volume 1
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
After waking up on an operating table with no memory of how she got there, Noa must team up with computer hacker Peter to stop a corrupt corporation with a deadly secret.
Author
Series
Whidbey Island saga volume 3
Publisher
Viking, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
©2015.
Language
English
Description
Someone is setting fires on Whidbey Island and Becca King and her friends may know who the arsonist is.
Author
Series
Whidbey Island saga volume 2
Publisher
Viking, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
©2014.
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Jenn McDaniel's life on Whidbey Island becomes more complicated and her relationships with old and new friends take strange turns, partly due to the arrival of a woman researching a strange black seal.
20) Rebel Seoul
Author
Publisher
Tu Books, an imprint of Lee & Low Books Inc
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
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Description
Abandoned as a child in the slums of Old Seoul by his rebel father, Jaewon wants only to escape his past and prove himself a loyal soldie of the Neo State. When he is reruited into weapons-development, it looks like his in on the road to military glory--until he is assigned to a secret project which forces him to question the goals of the Neo regime.
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