Turnage, Sheila.
Summary: Washed ashore as a baby in tiny Tupelo Landing, North Carolina, Mo LoBeau, now eleven, and her best friend Dale turn detective when the amnesiac Colonel, owner of a café and co-parent of Mo with his cook, Miss Lana, seems implicated in a murder.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC TURBurnell, Cerrie
Summary: A storm brings a floating circus to the City of Clouds, and when Harper and her friends attend they move ever closer to the secret of her origins.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sky Pony Press 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC BURGardner, Sally
Summary: Nine-year-old Emily Vole and her friends at Wings & Co. Fairy Detective Agency have their hands full with the sudden and mysterious death of local landowner Sir Walter Cross, devastating losses suffered by tailor Mr. Rollo, and the ruin of Pan Smith's wedding preparations the night before her big day.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Square Fish, Henry Holt and Company 2015
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED GARRogerson, Margaret
Summary: "All sorcerers are evil. Elisabeth has known that as long as she has known anything. Raised as a foundling in one of Austermeer's Great Libraries, Elisabeth has grown up among the tools of sorcery -- magical grimoires that whisper on shelves and rattle beneath iron chains. If provoked, they transform into grotesque monsters of ink and leather. She hopes to become a warden, charged with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Margaret K. McElderry Books 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC ROGCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ROGCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA Fiction Rogerson 2019Bartók, Mira
Summary: In this extraordinary debut novel with its deft nod to Dickensian heroes and rogues, Mira Bartók tells the story of Arthur, a shy, fox-like foundling with only one ear and a desperate desire to belong, as he seeks his destiny.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2017
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC BARUss, Christina
Summary: Left at the Mostly Silent Monastery in Washington, D.C. as a toddler and home-schooled by a retired nun, twelve-year-old Bicycle rides cross-country to meet a famous cyclist who she hopes will be her first friend.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Margaret Ferguson Books, Holiday House 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC USSHocking, Amanda
Summary: Ulla Tulin's journey to learn who her parents were has brought her to the attention of the Alvolk sect-- and a man claiming to be her father. The Alvolk released her-- but Ulla has lost a month of her life, and spends time trying to regain her memories. The incantation that will open the bridge to Alfheim, the First City, will unleash a menagerie of monstrous creatures upon Earth to consume...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wednesday Books 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC HOCHogan, Ruth
Summary: After a lifetime of keeping other people's secrets, fortune teller Madam Burova, before she can have a little piece of life for herself, must fulfill a promise made in the 1970s, when she and her girlfriends were carefree, with their whole lives still before them.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HOGCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HOGStaub, Wendy Corsi
Summary: Staring into his frightened blue eyes, investigative genealogist Amelia Crenshaw Haines vows to help a silent little boy who is unable, or unwilling, to communicate his past. Though her own roots remain shrouded in mystery, she relies on DNA evidence to help fellow foundlings uncover theirs, until a remarkable twist of fate presents a stranger bearing an eerily familiar childhood souvenir.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2019
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC STAGardner, Sally.
Summary: "When Emily Vole inherits an abandoned shop, it is up to her to battle a fairy-snatching witch and get to the bottom of Operation Bunny"--Page 4 of cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2014
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED GARCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC GARJackson, Aaron
Summary: "Abandoned as an infant by his actress mother in her theater dressing room, August March was raised by an ancient laundress. Highly intelligent, a tad feral, August is a true child of the theater. But like all productions, August's wondrous time inside the theater comes to a close, and he finds himself in the wilds of postwar New York City, where he quickly rises from pickpocket street urchin...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JACPaulsen, Gary
Summary: "Deep in the woods, in a rustic cabin, lives an old man and the boy he's raised as his own. This sage old man has taught the boy the power of nature and how to live in it, and more importantly, to respect it. In Fishbone's Song, this boy reminisces about the magic of the man who raised him and the tales that he used to tell--all true, but different each time."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC PAUCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction Paulsen 2016Summary: Silas Marner was a man who had everything, until he lost it all. Falsely accused of theft and driven out of his town, Silas starts life anew. One day, upon arriving home, he discovers a child asleep on the hearth.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV SILBrontë, Emily
Summary: A graphic novel adaptation of the tragic story of Catherine and Heathcliff, the star-crossed lovers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lucent Books 2012
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 BROBuckey, Sarah Masters
Summary: 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 Cécile grows and she hears rumors of yellow fever.
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Publisher / Publication Date: American Girl Pub. 2011
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC BUCBurnell, Cerrie
Summary: Late one evening as the stars begin to twinkle, Harper and her friends are flying on her magic scarlet umbrella when they see a girl running on air. She leads them to the Circus of Dreams, a menagerie of wonders suspended in the sky. But as the friends learn about the Circus of Dreams, they discover an important secret about Harper's past that could change everything.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD FIC BURClark, Zack Loran
Summary: Melanie Gate, a foundling with a peculiar talent for opening the unopenable, agrees to accompany a gearling automaton named Traveler on his quest to find a home, only to be pursued by the most dangerous wizard in the land and, along the way, discover her true powers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC CLAHalls, Stacey
Summary: "Two women, bound by a child, and a secret that will change everything. London, 1754. Six years after leaving her illegitimate newborn at the Foundling Hospital, Bess Bright returns to reclaim the daughter she has never known. Dreading the worst, that she has died in care, she is astonished to discover someone pretending to be Bess has already claimed her. Her life is turned upside down as she...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mira/Harlequin Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HALJackson, Lisa.
Summary: When Chandra Hill is awakened by a cry in the night, she is shocked to discover an abandoned newborn in her barn. Emergency room doctor Dallas O'Rourke finds himself bonding instantly with the baby and the intriguing woman who brought him in. And when the baby's adoption becomes national news, he's stunned to realize he wants a life with them both.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2011
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC JACBell, Alex
Summary: "It sounded like a respectable and worthy enough death for an explorer - tumbling from an ice bridge to be impaled upon a mammoth tusk - but Stella really, really didn't want that to happen, just the same. Join Stella Starflake Pearl and her three fellow explorers as they trek across the snowy Icelands and come face-to-face with frost fairies, snow queens, outlaw hideouts, unicorns, pygmy...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: W.F. Howes Ltd 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD BELStevenson, Robin
Summary: When Cameron discovers a baby abandoned in the woods, he tries to discover whether his sister is the mother.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orca Book Publishers 2012
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1 available in Young Adult Foreign Language, Call number: YA FOREIGN SPANISH STEBlack, Cara
Summary: Parisian computer expert Aimee Leduc finds herself in the midst of murder and corruption after an anonymous telephone call leads her to an abandoned baby girl.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Press 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BLABronte, Emily
Summary: A self-satisfied young man in flight from polite society stumbles upon a household in which the dogs try to bite him and the people snarl like dogs at each other and at him, and where a ghost cries outside his bedroom window demanding to be let in. Thus begins a story of violent loves and hatreds, and of a passion that extends across two generations and across death itself.
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Publisher / Publication Date: North Books 0000
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC BROBronte, Emily
Summary: Lockwood, the new tenant of Thrushcross Grange, situated on the bleak Yorkshire moors, is forced to seek shelter one night at Wuthering Heights, the home of his landlord. There he discovers the history of the tempestuous events that took place years before. What unfolds is the tale of the intense love between the gypsy foundling Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw. Catherine, forced to choose...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2003