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1) Reunion
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
The Baxters is now an original series on Prime Video, starring Roma Downey and Ted McGinley.
A story of God’s grace, redemption, and victory even in the most difficult times, from Karen Kingsbury, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of “heart-tugging and emotional” (Romantic Times) life-changing fiction, co-authored with Gary Smalley.
A Deadly Diagnosis
Plans are being made for...
A story of God’s grace, redemption, and victory even in the most difficult times, from Karen Kingsbury, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of “heart-tugging and emotional” (Romantic Times) life-changing fiction, co-authored with Gary Smalley.
A Deadly Diagnosis
Plans are being made for...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"In Shaker Heights, a placid, progressive suburb of Cleveland, everything is planned - from the layout of the winding roads, to the colors of the houses, to the successful lives its residents will go on to lead. And no one embodies this spirit more than Elena Richardson, whose guiding principle is playing by the rules. Enter Mia Warren - an enigmatic artist and single mother - who arrives in this idyllic bubble with her teenaged daughter Pearl, and...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
With more than a score of heartwarming novels to her credit, Karen Kingsbury is a best-selling inspirational author who captivates fans with her tales of triumph over personal tragedy. Halfway to Forever continues the story of Hannah Ryan, the grieving widow who found her way back to God in Waiting for Morning. As Hannah and her new husband Matthew confront obstacles while waiting to adopt a child, their best friends must cope with a devastating illness....
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Susie Mast's Old Order life has been shaped more by tragedy than her own choices. But when she decides to accept another's invitation and stop waiting on her childhood friend, she soon realizes her mistake. Family secrets and missed opportunities might dim Susie's hopes for the future but what seems like the end might only be the beginning.
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Every day, Paige Redwine is haunted by a choice she made when she was only seventeen. Now, just past forty, still single, she lives a tidy, controlled life as a well-respected English professor at a college in Nashville. Nothing could prepare her for the day Treha Langsam -- the daughter she secretly placed for adoption -- walks into her classroom as a student, unknowingly confronting Paige with both her greatest longing and her greatest fear. As...
6) Found
Author
Series
The missing volume 1
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2008.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
When thirteen-year-olds Jonah and Chip, who are both adopted, learn they were discovered on a plane that appeared out of nowhere, full of babies with no adults on board, they realize that they have uncovered a mystery involving time travel and two opposing forces, each trying to repair the fabric of time.
Author
Series
Brio girls volume 2
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
2001.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
High-school junior Becca finds herself resentful when her parents suggest adopting Alvaro, the ill Guatemalan boy staying with them temporarily.
Author
Language
English
Description
Isabelle McAvoy (58), private art consultant in New York City. The first half of the book focuses on her past, having three daughters with three different men and following her through each of those relationships. Her first love was a reclusive American living in France, much older than her, who was always a part of their daughter's life, though they never married. Her second husband went to prison for fraud when Isabelle was pregnant with her second...
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Told in separate voices, Kat and Robin leave Boston on a church mission to help combat human trafficking in India while Kat recovers from a sexual assault and Robin seeks his birth mother.
Katina King having trouble fighting off the secrets in her past. Robin Thornton was adopted from an orphanage in Kolkata, India and is reluctant to take on his future since he knows nothing about his past. They meet during a summer service trip to India to work...
11) Mysterious love
Author
Series
Nikki Sheridan series volume 2
Publisher
Focus on the Family Pub
Pub. Date
[1996]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Involvement with a charming, but troubled new boy at school distracts Nikki from her sadness over giving up her baby, but it is the loving support of her grandparents and a close friend that help her resolve her feelings of anger and guilt.
12) Saffy's angel
Author
Series
Casson family volume 1
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
2002.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
After learning that she was adopted, thirteen-year-old Saffron's relationship with her eccentric, artistic family changes, until they help her go back to Italy where she was born to find a special momento of her past.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In 1975, three thousand children were airlifted out of Saigon to be adopted into Western homes. When Mindy, one of those children, announces her plans to return to Vietnam to find her birth mother, her loving adopted family is suddenly thrown back to the events surrounding her unconventional arrival in their lives. Though her father supports Mindy's desire to meet her family of origin, he struggles privately with an unsettling fear that he'll lose...
Author
Series
Publisher
Multnomah Publishers
Pub. Date
[2005]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Kim Peterson learns more about herself and her friends, and practices her new commitment to God, by writing a teen advice column for the newspaper on which her father is managing editor.
Author
Language
English
Description
"Molly Arnette is very good at keeping secrets. She and her husband live in San Diego, where they hope to soon adopt a baby. But the process terrifies her. As the questions and background checks come one after another, Molly worries that the truth she's kept hidden about her North Carolina childhood will rise to the surface and destroy not only her chance at adoption, but her marriage as well. She ran away from her family twenty years ago after a...
16) Second choices
Author
Series
Nikki Sheridan volume 6
Publisher
Bethany House Publishers
Pub. Date
2000.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Having given her baby up for adoption, Nikki tries to explain her feelings about abortion to her classmates, while struggling with a relationship that may be leading her away from God and while being exposed to dangerous vandalism at school.
17) Eden's children
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When former teacher Paula Eden adopts Faith and Trevor, she is astounded by their natural intelligence and decides to homeschool them to nurture their brilliance. But as the years go on, Faith and Trevor itch for more independence. When Faith sets her sights on a handsome young man visiting from out of town, Paula grows increasingly desperate to preserve her small family and her plans for the children to carry on her legacy. Luckily, she has a cohort...
18) Jars of glass
Author
Publisher
Speak
Pub. Date
2009.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Teenage sisters Chloe and Shana offer their views of events that occur during the year after their mother is diagnosed with schizophrenia and their family, including a recently adopted Russian orphan, begins to disintegrate.
19) The rescue
Author
Series
Dog whisperer volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
"Emily has dreams of drowning. Night after night, she's being sucked under--until the third night. She realizes it's not just a dream. It's really happening to someone--or something. On the rocky shore outside her house, Emily finds a large dog. He's barely alive, but she's determined to save him. She can feel his pain--and his determination to live. The dog is brought to the vet. And with Emily's help, he starts to improve. But is the bond between...
20) The rescue
Author
Publisher
Forge, a Tom Doherty Associates Book
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"The Rescue is a gripping thriller that explores the strength of the human-animal bond and how far we will go to protect what we love by three-time Edgar Award winner and New York Times bestselling author T. Jefferson Parker. While reporting on a Tijuana animal shelter, journalist Bettina Blazak falls in love with one of her story's subjects-an adorable Mexican street dog who is being treated for a mysterious gunshot wound. Bettina impulsively adopts...
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