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Chang, Janie

Summary: After being abandoned by her mother in 1908 Shanghai, a young Eurasian girl, Jialing, becomes the bondservant to the new owners of a grand estate until she befriends a young English girl who mysteriously disappears and forever changes her life.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2017

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1 available in Adult, Call number: P CHA

Stark, Rachel

Summary: "In this unforgettable debut novel, twenty-seven-year-old Tessa, pregnant with her third child and living in a trailer on her mother-in-law's property, encounters the woman she used to love-leading Tessa to question the very foundations of the life she's built Abandoned by first her father and then her mother, as a girl Tessa is left to live with her abusive stepfather and stepbrother. She...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2024

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Michaels, Fern

Summary: When the call comes, the Men of the Sisterhood drop everything to help their friends. This time it's Cyrus, their four-legged hound dog and unofficial mascot. While member Joe Espinosa is driving along an isolated country road with Cyrus in tow, he catches a glimpse of movement in the woods bordering the road and notes Cyrus pawing desperately at the car window. As soon as he pulls over to...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2018

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MIC

Fox, Janet S.

Summary: Twelve-year-old Lulu, burdened with caring for her sister, Serena, since their father disappeared, must learn to trust her new friends and community when secrets and lies catch up with her.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2021

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC FOX

Evans, Richard Paul

Summary: "When bestselling romance author Jacob Churcher returns to Salt Lake City to settle his estranged mother's estate, a young woman arrives looking for her birth mother who lived with Jacob's family during her pregnancy. They discover a diary written by Noel and begin a quest to find her, reconcile their pasts and rewrite their futures"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2018

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC EVA

Wilson, Jennifer

Summary: "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...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC WIL

Bieker, Chelsea

Summary: "Drought has settled on the town of Peaches, California. The area of the Central Valley where fourteen-year-old Lacey May and her alcoholic mother live was once an agricultural paradise. Now it's an environmental disaster, a place of cracked earth and barren raisin farms. In their desperation, residents have turned to a cult leader named Pastor Vern for guidance. He promises, through secret...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Catapult 2020

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BIE

Kadohata, Cynthia.

Summary: 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.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2014

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC KAD

Gunderson, Jessica

Summary: Kamilla has a wonderful singing voice, but she does not want to sign up for the Memorial Middle School musical because she sees herself as overweight, even though the doctor tells her she is not--so can exercise and the support of her family and friends help her overcome her negative image and lead her to the starring role her talent demands?

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2018

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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 JUN

Kellerman, Faye.

Summary: Rescuing a newborn that has been abandoned in a dumpster, LAPD officer Cindy Decker, the daughter of detective Peter Decker, begins a quest through inner-city Hollywood in search of the baby's mother and uncovers a dangerous drug ring.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Books 2003

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KEL

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS KEL

See, Lisa.

Summary: 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. Li-yan, one of the few educated girls on her mountain, translates for the stranger and is among the first to reject the rules...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2017

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC SEE

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD Fiction See 2017

Kellerman, Faye.

Summary: Rescuing a newborn that has been abandoned in a dumpster, LAPD officer Cindy Decker, the wife of detective Peter Decker, begins a search through inner-city Hollywood in search of the baby's mother and uncovers a dangerous drug ring.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Books Large Print 2003

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M KEL

Zusak, Markus

Summary: 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.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2018

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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC ZUS

Onomé, Louisa

Summary: Summer Uzoma's parents went on the run after they were accused of committing a crime, leaving her behind. She has been alternating stays with her friends' families, and secretly visits her old home. But she's fine: she has her skateboard and her bus pass. She just has to turn eighteen in a few weeks and then she'll truly be free. Then a nosy social worker arranges for Summer to be living with...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Feiwel & Friends 2023

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ONO

Nguyẽ̂n, Phan Qué̂ Mai

1 hold on 4 copies

Summary: "An American GI, two Vietnamese bargirls, and an Amerasian man are forced to make decisions during and after the Viet Nam War that will reverberate throughout one another's lives"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2023

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC NGU

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NGU

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Nguyen

Frey, Rea

Summary: Emma Grace Townsend. Five years old. Gray eyes. Brown hair. Missing since June. Emma Townsend is lonely. Living with her cruel mother and clueless father, Emma retreats into her own world of quiet and solitude. Sarah Walker. Successful entrepreneur. Broken-hearted. Abandoned by her mother. Kidnapper. Sarah has never seen a girl so precious as the gray-eyed child in a crowded airport...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Griffin 2018

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FRE

Jacobson, Jennifer

Summary: Abandoned by his mother in an Acadia National Park campground, Jack tries to make his way back to Boston before anyone figures out what is going on, with only a small toy elephant for company.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway Digital Audio 2011

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Owens, Delia

Summary: En Barkley Cove, un tranquilo pueblo de pescadores, circulan extraños rumores sobre la "chica de la marisma". Desde los seis años, Kya deambula completamente sola entre canales y cañaverales, apenas cubierta y descalza. Aunque solo asiste un día a la escuela, la marisma y sus criaturas no tienen secretos para ella: la alimentan, la acunan, la protegen, son sus maestros y compañeras de juego....

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Español, una división de Penguin Random House LLC 2019

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.4 FIC OWE

Lo, Rich

Summary: "Animal names and their significance in Chinese culture is explained in simple bilingual text for young readers."--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2021

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE LO

Reynolds, Sheri.

Summary: Seven years after being abandoned with her little brother at a Tennessee campground, fifteen-year-old Tessa Lee learns that her mother has been living two hours away.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Shaye Areheart Books 2006

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC REY

Jortner, Maura

Summary: "After being abandoned by her mother in an amusement park, twelve-year-old Mouse is determined to secretly live in the park on her own, even though getting caught could mean saving her life"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2023

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC JOR

Paris, Harper.

Summary: Separated from their parents in Beijing, China's Forbidden City, second-grade twins Ethan and Ella luckily find an ancient map that helps them find their way.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Little Simon 2014

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in J Series, Call number: J FIC PAR

Dessen, Sarah.

Summary: 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.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Speak 2009

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC DES

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC DES

Willett, Marcia.

Summary: Abandoned by her mother as a child, Brigid Foster struggles with conflicted feelings when her mother reenters her life, while her summer lodger, Louise, also gives way to a painful past, with unexpected repercussions.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books 2003

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WIL

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