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Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
197 pages ; 22 cm.
Description
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.
Author
Series
Whidbey Island saga volume 1
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 17
Physical Desc
440, 17 pages ; 21 cm.
Description
When her mother abandons her on Whidbey Island, Washington, Becca, a fourteen-year-old girl with psychic abilities meets a Ugandan orphan with a secret.
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 8
Physical Desc
215 pages ; 22 cm.
Description
"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"--
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 4
Formats
Description
On New Year's Eve, the octuplets Huit--Annie, Durinda, Georgia, Jackie, Marcia, Petal, Rebecca, and Zinnia--discover that their parents are missing, and then uncover a mysterious note instructing them that each must find her power and her gift if they want to know what happened to their parents.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 10
Formats
Description
"When Eleven-year-old Sol arrives at the Ash House, desperate for a cure for his complex pain syndrome, he finds a community of strange children long abandoned by their mysterious Headmaster. The children at the Ash House want the new boy to love their home as much as they do. They give him a name like theirs. They show him the dorms and tell him about the wonderful oasis that the Headmaster has created for them. But the new boy already has a name....
6) Homecoming
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 16
Formats
Description
Abandoned by their mother, four children begin a search for a home and an identity.
7) Middletown
Author
Description
"Thirteen-year-old Eli likes baggy clothes, baseball caps, and one girl in particular. Her seventeen-year-old sister Anna is more traditionally feminine; she loves boys and staying out late. They are sisters . . . Their dad has long been out of the picture, and their mom lives at the mercy of her next drink. When their mom lands herself in enforced rehab, Anna and Eli are left to fend for themselves. Eli and Anna have each gotten used to telling lies...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 3
Formats
Description
During the month of June, Petal, one of the eight Huit octuplets, gets her power, which she uses to great advantage when Crazy Aunt Serena tries to kidnap Rebecca and throw her off the Eiffel Tower while the rest of the family attends a wedding.
10) Jellicoe Road
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 12
Formats
Description
Abandoned by her drug-addicted mother at the age of eleven, high school student Taylor Markham struggles with her identity and family history at a boarding school in Australia.
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Physical Desc
200 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
When fifteen-year-old Cathy decides to carpool from Norwalk to tony Greenwich, Connecticut, to study Latin in summer school, she does not expect the shocking events that occured five years earlier to suddenly come flooding back into her relatively settled life.
Author
Series
Hard Pan trilogy volume 1
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
134 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Description
Fearing that her legal guardian plans to abandon her to return to France, ten-year-old aspiring scientist Lucky Trimble determines to run away while also continuing to seek the Higher Power that will bring stability to her life.
13) Marcia's madness
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 3
Formats
Description
The Huit octuplets discover Marcia's special power--the ability to see through things--which helps when their evil neighbor calls Social Services to report that they are living alone because their parents have not returned from wherever they disappeared to.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 3
Formats
Description
One month after their parents' disappearance, the third-grade Huit octuplets deal with a malfunctioning refrigerator and try to win the love of the only boy in their class at Valentine's Day, while Dorinda discovers her special power and gift.
17) Jackie's jokes
Author
Series
Sisters eight volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 3
Formats
Description
April Fools' Day is long and hard for the third-grade Huit octuplets, but it is nothing compared to the challenges of Tax Day, through which Jackie discovers her special power and gift and learns more about their parents' mysterious disappearance.
18) Lock and key
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 17
Formats
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
Series
Edge chronicles. Original series volume 1
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 7
Physical Desc
276 p. : ill., map ; 21 cm.
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.
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