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Author
Publisher
Algonquin Young Readers
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 10
Physical Desc
281 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Natalia Rose Baleine Gallagher dreams of seeing whales on the beach near her new home, and is consumed with the prospect that her mother who abandoned her as a child loves and misses her, and wants Nat to find her.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
134 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
181 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Publisher
Milkweed Eds
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Physical Desc
192 p.: 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1935 Alabama, when twelve-year-old MaryJake is abandoned by her financially-strapped parents and told to walk to the house of unknown relatives, she dresses like a boy and joins the household of an old widow before discovering secrets about her own family.