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Join Ms. Heather in listening to various stories, rhymes, music and other fun activities!
Author
Series
(Virginia C.).Umbrella volume 1
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First Gallery Books trade paperback edition.
Physical Desc
273 pages, 18 unnumbered pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Left on the train platform of some strange village, eight-year-old Saffron Faith Anders is certain her father will return shortly, just like he promised. She holds out hope as the hour grows late and the station sets to close. She clings to her suitcase like a life raft. When a peculiar old woman carrying a large umbrella approaches and inquires about her situation, Saffron doesn't immediately trust the imposing do-gooder, but eventually does agree...
23) Any Day Now
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 97 minutes) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Winner of 10 Audience Awards at film festivals around the country and starring the amazing Alan Cumming, Any Day Now is a powerful tale of love, acceptance and family. When a teenager with Down syndrome (Isaac Leyva) is abandoned by his mother, a gay couple (Alan Cumming and Garret Dillahunt) takes him in and becomes the loving family he's never had. But when their unconventional living arrangement is discovered by authorities, the men are forced...
24) Warlight
Author
Language
English
Description
Decades after World War II, Nathaniel Williams reflects on his experiences in 1945, when his parents left him and his sister in the care of a mysterious neighbor.
Just after World War II, Nathaniel and his older sister Rachel stay behind in London when their parents move to Singapore, leaving them in the care of a mysterious figure named The Moth and his eccentric crew of friends. These friends are men and women joined by a shared history of unspecified...
Author
Series
Acorna series volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Formats
Description
A lady unicorn drifting in a spaceship is found to have unusual healing powers. As word spreads, various groups on Earth, from scientists to politicians, try to steal her so as to use her for their own ends. But the miners who found her are protective. Although she has made peace with her Linyaari heritage, Acorna knows that only by returning to the frozen stillness of space will she ever truly feel at home. But the solitude she desires must wait....
26) Rock-a-bye bones
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Sarah Booth Delaney and her friends are still recovering from the attack on Scott Hampton's blues club in Zinnia, Mississippi, and Sarah Booth herself is still overcoming her grief at ending things with her fiancé. One bitterly cold night at her family's ancestral home in Zinnia, Sarah Booth hears what sounds like a kitten as she passes the front door. She opens the door to find a newborn baby in a basket on her front porch - with bloody footsteps...
Author
Publisher
Tin House
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First US edition.
Physical Desc
545 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"In her twelfth year, Kirabo, a young Ugandan girl, confronts a piercing question that has haunted her childhood: who is my mother? Kirabo has been raised by women in the small village of Nattetta-her grandmother, her best friend, and her many aunts, but the absence of her mother follows her like a shadow. Complicating these feelings of abandonment, as Kirabo comes of age she feels the emergence of a mysterious second self, a headstrong and confusing...
29) The foundling
Author
Publisher
Bob Jones University Press
Pub. Date
c1997.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 15
Physical Desc
341 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Abandoned on the porch of a London church in 1644 at the age of four, Willy eventually becomes an apprentice while never quite giving up hope of finding his mother.
30) Abel's field
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (104 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Left motherless by tragedy and abandoned by his father, high school senior Seth McArdle has been put under enormous pressure to support his little sisters. At school, he endures the daily bullying of the football team. When he fights back, he's singled out for punishment, assigned to an after-school work detail under the supervision of a reserved groundskeeper, Abel. Much to his surprise, Seth discovers that Abel may be the only one who truly understands...
31) Blue Monday
Author
Series
Frieda Klein novels volume 1
Publisher
Pamela Dorman Books/Viking
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st American ed.
Physical Desc
322 p. : map ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Frieda Klein is a solitary, incisive psychotherapist who spends her sleepless nights walking along the ancient rivers that have been forced underground in modern London. She believes that the world is a messy, uncontrollable place, but what we can control is what is inside our heads. This attitude is reflected in her own life, which is an austere one of refuge, personal integrity, and order. The abduction of five-year-old Matthew Farraday provokes...
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
1995
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (60 min.) : sd., col. with b&w segments ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Explores the successes and failures of a resettlement program for orphaned and abandoned children on East coast who were put on trains and placed in farming communities in the midwest. This little known program ran from 1854 to 1929. Contains archival materials and interviews with elderly survivors.
Author
Series
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
291 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"To give this baby a refuge, she must reopen her heart... When Amish midwife Lovina Albrecht finds an abandoned baby, she's determined to give the child a home for the holidays--even if doing so brings up difficult memories. But she's not prepared for her bishop to assign standoffish Jonah Lapp to help care for the little girl. As their temporary arrangement begins to feel like family, can they overcome old hurts to build a future? From Love Inspired:...
34) Adopt a highway
Publisher
RLJ Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (81 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Russ Millings has just been released from prison after serving 21 years for a third strike conviction for possessing an ounce of marijuana. As he tries to adapt to a world he doesn't recognize, including trying to learn how to use the internet, he finds an abandoned baby in a dumpster behind the fast-food restaurant where he works as a dishwasher. Unsure of what to do, and caught between impulses of kindness and panic, Russ soon realizes this could...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Love and resentment, fear and hope intersect for two sisters as their desire to help an abandoned child forces them to face their past and decide their future."--
Delia Lamont loves her job at the Portland, Maine child services agency, but her frustrations have left her burned out and restless. Ready to join her sister Juniper and start a seaside bakery, she is called in on the case of a five-year-old girl named Hayley found by the side of the road....
Author
Language
English
Description
In 1950s Quebec, French and English tolerate each other with precarious civility--much like Maggie Hughes' parents. Maggie's English-speaking father has ambitions for his daughter that don't include marriage to the poor French boy the next farm over. But Maggie's heart is captured by Gabriel Phénix. When she becomes pregnant at fifteen, her parents send the baby Elodie to an orphanage where she receives horrible treatment. Seventeen years later,...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Many dedicated years working for the NYPD didn't mean much when criminal psychologist Trajan Jones was fired from the force. Now living in exile on a dairy farm in upstate New York, Trajan is reduced to teaching an online course in criminal investigation, along with his partner Mike Li, an expert in DNA evidence. But Trajan is called back to duty when a friend in county law enforcement consults him on the suspicious death of several local kids. They're...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Victor Alderheim has a lot to answer for. Not only has he heartlessly tricked his young ex-wife, Jenny, out of her art gallery inheritance, but he has also abandoned his son, Kevin, to die in the middle of the Kenyan savanna. It doesn't occur to Victor that Kevin might be rescued and adopted by a Maasai medicine man, or that he might be expected to undergo the rituals expected of all new Maasai warriors - which have him running back to Stockholm...
Author
Publisher
Graywolf Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
v, 152 pages, 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Marie, a nurse in Mayotte, a far-flung, tropical department of France in the Indian Ocean, adopts a baby abandoned at birth by his mother, a refugee from Comoros. She names him Moïse and raises him as her own--and she avoids his increasing questions about his origins as he grows up. When Marie suddenly dies, thirteen-year-old Moïse is left completely alone, plunged into uncertainty and turmoil. In a state of panic, he runs away from home, and sets...
Author
Publisher
The Dial Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
341 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"From "a talented writer whose lyrical, evocative writing invites comparisons to Rick Bass and Richard Ford" (Publishers Weekly, starred review) comes a deftly woven novel that examines the layered makeup of a family: the affections and resentments, obligations and sacrifices"--
"Set in a backwoods village in northern Canada, this is the story of a young woman who leaves her dysfunctional, male-dominated family to make a new life in London. With...
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