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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
When a custody battle divides her placid town, straitlaced family woman Elena Richardson finds herself pitted against her enigmatic tenant and becomes obsessed with exposing her past, only to trigger devastating consequences for both families.
2) Reunion
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
As preparations are made for a Baxter family reunion, a deadly diagnosis sends a wave of shock through the family as they face an uncertain future.
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Language
English
Description
"The sun beamed down on Melissa Henderson's shining dark hair, pinned up on her head in a loose knot, as sweat ran down her face, and the muscles in her long, lithe arms were taut with effort as she worked. She was lost in concentration, sanding a door of the house in the Berkshire Mountains in Massachusetts that had been her salvation. She had bought it four years before. It had been weather-beaten, shabby and in serious need of repair when she found...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
"Penobscot Indian Molly Ayer is close to 'aging out' out of the foster care system. A community service position helping an elderly woman clean out her home is the only thing keeping Molly out of juvie and worse.... As she helps Vivian sort through her possessions and memories, Molly learns that she and Vivian aren't as different as they seem to be. A young Irish immigrant orphaned in New York City, Vivian was put on a train to the Midwest with hundreds...
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English
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"Maddie Baxter West is shaken to the core when she finds out everything she believed about her life was a lie. Her parents had always planned to tell her the truth about her past: that she was adopted as an embryo. But somehow the right moment never happened. Then a total stranger confronts Maddie with the truth and tells her something else that rocks her world - Maddie had a sister she never knew about. Betrayed, angry, and confused, Maddie leaves...
Author
Language
English
Description
Isabelle McAvoy (58), private art consultant in New York City. The first half of the book focuses on her past, having three daughters with three different men and following her through each of those relationships. Her first love was a reclusive American living in France, much older than her, who was always a part of their daughter's life, though they never married. Her second husband went to prison for fraud when Isabelle was pregnant with her second...
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Language
English
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Description
"Susie Mast's Amish life in Lancaster County has been shaped by events beyond her control, with the tragic deaths of her Dat and close-in-age brother casting long shadows. Now twenty-two, Susie remains unmarried despite her longtime affection for friend Obie Yoder. Unfortunately, her concerns are soon multiplied due to her mother's worsening health and her younger sister's urgent desire for answers about her adoption. Once again, Susie faces the possibility...
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Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Molly Arnette is very good at keeping secrets. She lives in San Diego with a husband she adores, and they are trying to adopt a baby because they can't have a child on their own. But the process of adoption brings to light many questions about Molly's past and her family-the family she left behind in North Carolina twenty years before. The mother she says is dead but who is very much alive. The father she adored and whose death sent her running from...
11) The rescue
Author
Publisher
Forge, Tor Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
339 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"The Rescue is a gripping thriller that explores the strength of the human-animal bond and how far we will go to protect what we love by three-time Edgar Award winner and New York Times bestselling author T. Jefferson Parker. While reporting on a Tijuana animal shelter, journalist Bettina Blazak falls in love with one of her story's subjects-an adorable Mexican street dog who is being treated for a mysterious gunshot wound. Bettina impulsively adopts...
13) Any other family
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"The New York Times bestselling author of The Weird Sisters returns with a striking and intimate new novel about three very different women facing an impossible question: What makes a family?"--
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A thrilling new novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Lisa See explores the lives of a Chinese mother and her daughter who has been adopted by an American couple. Li-yan and her family align their lives around the seasons and the farming of tea. There is ritual and routine, and it has been ever thus for generations. Then one day a jeep appears at the village gate--the first automobile any of them have seen--and a stranger arrives. In...
16) Lost cat
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Slipper the cat is mistakenly left behind in the commotion when the lady she has always lived with moves in with her daughter's family, so Slipper sets out to find someone new to adopt.
Author
Publisher
Bethany House Publishers
Pub. Date
2001
Physical Desc
270p. 21cm.
Language
English
Description
A Powerful Novel From Tracie Peterson "A child of my Own. Flesh of my flesh..." That is the deep yearning that fills Tess's heart. Despite years spend under a doctor's care and advances in medical technology, she and her husband have discovered their options have been exhausted, leaving them with arms empty, long-held dreams shattered. A unique opportunity arises in the form of a young pregnant teen desperate to free herself from her misguided decisions....
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Series
Language
English
Description
Tarzan of the Apes is a coming of age story of John Clayton, the son of an English couple who are marooned in the western coastal jungles of equatorial Africa. His father is killed by the savage king ape Kerchak, and his mother dies of natural causes. At one year old, Clayton is adopted by the she-ape Kala and renamed Tarzan, or "white-skin" in the ape language.
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Series
Publisher
Looking Glass Library is an imprint of Magic Wagon, a division of ABDO
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
32 pages color illustrations.
Language
English
Description
My Adopted Family is the story of a normal day in Adam's life. When classmate Lenny visits his home, he discovers Adam is adopted. Who makes him do his homework? Mom! Who makes Dinner? Dad! Who tucks him in? Mom and Dad! Lenny realizes love makes a family.
20) We wanted you
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2002
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
[28] p.: col. ill.; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Parents tell how they waited and prepared for the baby that they wanted so much.