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21) Walkabout
Series
Criterion collection volume 10
Publisher
Home Vision Cinema
Pub. Date
c1998.
Language
English
Description
"Nicolas Roeg's mystical masterpiece chronicles the physical, spiritual, and emotional journey of a sister and brother abandoned in the harsh Australian outback. Joining an Aborigine boy on his walkabout--a tribal initiation into manhood--these modern children pass from innocence into experience as they are thrust from the comforts of civilization into the savagery of the natural world." --container.
22) The bean trees
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Series
Language
English
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Description
Feisty Marietta Greer changes her name to "Taylor" when her car runs out of gas in Taylorville, Illinois. By the time she reaches Oklahoma, this strong-willed young Kentucky native is catapulted into a surprising new life. When a forlorn Cherokee woman drops a baby in Taylor's passenger seat and asks her to take it, she does.
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Language
English
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Description
Between 1854 and 1930, more than 200,000 orphaned or abandoned children were sent west on orphan trains to find new homes. Some were adopted by loving families; others were not as fortunate. In recent years, some of the riders have begun to share their stories. Andrea Warren alternates chapters about the history of the orphan trains with the story of Lee Nailling, who in 1926 rode an orphan train to Texas.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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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.
27) The wool cap
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
c2005.
Language
English
Description
Gigot, a mute building superintendent, is tortured by his past but finds new life when he befriends Lou, a bright young girl who is abandoned by her mother.
Author
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
"A novel about the entangled lives of two women in 1920s New England, both mothers to the same unforgettable girl"--
1917. Beatrice Haven-- Jewish, unwed-- sneaks out of her uncle's house on Cape Ann, Massachusetts, leaves her newborn baby at the foot of a pear tree, and watches as another woman claims the infant as her own. Ten years later Prohibition is in full swing, post-WWI America is in the grips of rampant xenophobia, and Bea's hopes for her...
30) Rebel Seoul
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Abandoned as a child in the slums of Old Seoul by his rebel father, Jaewon wants only to escape his past and prove himself a loyal soldie of the Neo State. When he is reruited into weapons-development, it looks like his in on the road to military glory--until he is assigned to a secret project which forces him to question the goals of the Neo regime.
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
Series
Edge chronicles volume 1
Language
English
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Description
Thirteen-year-old Twig, having always looked and felt different from his woodtroll family, learns that he is adopted and travels out of his Deepwoods home to find the place where he belongs.
33) Criminals
Author
Language
English
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Description
Margot Livesey's early novel Criminals is the story of adult brother and sister Ewan and Mollie and their decision to rescue an abandoned child. But is the child being rescued by these two, or abducted? Where is the line between moral and criminal behavior? Livesey paints a thrilling and devastating portrait of two people blinded by need and the desire for betterment.
35) Future weather
Publisher
Virgil Films
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
When 13-year-old Lauduree's mother abandons her, Lauduree and her grandmother have to rethink their futures.
Author
Publisher
Pocket
Pub. Date
c2000.
Language
English
Description
With the startling emotional immediacy of a fractured family photo album, Jennifer Lauck's incandescent memoir is the story of an ordinary girl growing up at the turn of the 1970s and the truly extraordinary circumstances of a childhood lost. Wrenching and unforgettable, Blackbird will carry your heart away.
37) Girl in pieces
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Language
English
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Description
As she struggles to recover and survive, seventeen-year-old homeless Charlotte "Charlie" Davis cuts herself to dull the pain of abandonment and abuse.
38) Lock and key
Author
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Charlotte Tucker has always followed her heart, and now it leads her to one of Oklahoma's largest ranches where she can teach in her very own schoolhouse. When suspicious accidents put the ranch-and lives-in jeopardy, Charlotte believes in the one man no one else trusts and asks him to help her uncover the truth. There's bad blood between the ranch owner and its newest hand, Owen Wallace, but Owen is as brave as he is caring, risking even his own...
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