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2) Homecoming
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Series
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English
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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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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.
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Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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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.
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.
8) 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.
9) Rebel Seoul
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Publisher
Tu Books, an imprint of Lee & Low Books Inc
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
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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.
10) In the Woods
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Series
Publisher
Orca Book Publishers
Language
English
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When Cameron rescues a baby abandoned in the woods, everyone says it is a miracle. A stroke of luck that he just happened to be there, riding his bike along that trail, and heard the baby's cry. But Cameron has a secret: It wasn't just luck. He was there because his twin sister Katie begged him to go. Did Katie know about the baby? Is she covering for someone? At first Cameron just wants some answers but once he knows the truth he has to decide what...
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Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
©2015.
Language
English
Description
Soon after their mother's sudden death in San Diego, Liberty, twelve, and Billie, eight, are abandoned at an Arizona gas station by the father they barely know and Liberty must find a way to keep them together and safe until either Dad returns or they can contact Julie, their mother's best friend.
Author
Publisher
Puffin Books
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
After twelve-year-old Annika, a foundling living in late nineteenth-century Vienna, inherits a trunk of costume jewelry, a woman claiming to be her aristocratic mother arrives and takes her to live in a strangely decrepit mansion in Germany.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Abandoned as a baby in a forest to be eaten by Shadow Creatures, twelve-year-old Bo and his pet fox embark on a quest to return the wish-granting Stars to the Ulvian sky before the Shadow Witch can steal the star magic.
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Series
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Sammy's softball team is in contention for the Junior Slugger's Cup, and all she wants to do is hunker down behind the home plate and catch strikes. But Heather Acosta brings new meaning to the term "foul ball" as she schemes to get Sammy kicked off the team. Then Sammy is thrown a wild pitch by a frantic girl at the mall. The girl asks Sammy to watch her bag and dashes off before Sammy discovers that the bag she's left holding contains a baby! When...
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Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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"Seventeen-year-old Bliss Walker has been stuck in a home that doesn't feel like hers for six years. Ever since Mama dropped her off and never came back. Then, the summer before her senior year of high school, two things happen: Mama returns out of the blue, and Bliss meets Blake, a boy who listens like everything she has to say is worth hearing. It should be a dream come true. But as the summer spins on, Bliss finds herself facing a painful choice:...
Author
Series
Publisher
Lumen
Pub. Date
©2018.
Language
Español
Description
"Tras más de diez años de espera, llega el nuevo libro de Markus Zusak, autor del gran fenómeno editorial La ladrona de libros. Más de diez años después de La ladrona de libros, el extraordinario bestseller que superó los diez millones de ejemplares vendidos en todo el mundo, Zusak vuelve con una saga familiar inolvidable y arrolladora. Los cinco hermanos Dunbar viven en la indigencia de un hogar sin adultos cuidando los unos de los otros y...
18) Carry me home
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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Description
Twelve-year-old Lulu and her younger sister, Serena, have a secret. As Daddy always says, "it's best if we keep it to ourselves," and so they have. But hiding your past is one thing. Hiding where you live-and that your Daddy has gone missing-is harder. At first Lulu isn't worried. Daddy has gone away once before and he came back. But as the days add up, with no sign of Daddy, Lulu struggles to take care of all the responsibilities they used to manage...
Author
Series
Alone volume 7
Publisher
Cinebook Ltd
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Ivan, Leila, Camille, Terry, Dodzi. Five children who have never met each other, who live very different lives in a small city. Then, one day, they all wake up in their empty homes, walk out into empty streets and wander through the empty city... No adults, no other children; just the five of them eventually finding each other, and forced to band together to face the inevitable questions - and the dangers of a modern city suddenly emptied of its inhabitants....
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