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2) The guardian
Author
Series
Home to Hickory Hollow volume 3
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
After schoolteacher Jodi Winfield finds a little girl on the side of the road, she delves into the isolated community of the Lancaster Old Order Amish to find answers.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 11.3 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Description
Classic novel of consuming passions, played out against the lonely moors of northern England, recounts the turbulent and tempestuous love story of Cathy and Heathcliff. A masterpiece of imaginative fiction, the story remains as poignant and compelling today as it was when first published in 1847.
Author
Series
Rock Harbor series volume 5
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A mysterious crying in the night leads a woman to an abandoned baby. Against objections from her husband, she takes in the baby and every thing she thought she knew about her life is turned upside down.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Early on the morning of her eleventh birthday, on the beach beside her North Carolina home, Daria Cato receives an unbelievable gift from the sea, an abandoned newborn baby. When the infant's identity cannot be uncovered, she is adopted by Daria's loving family. But her silent secrets continue to haunt Daria. Now, twenty years later, Shelly has grown into an unusual, ethereal young woman whom Daria continues to protect. But when Rory Taylor, a friend...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Town mayor Emily receives an unexpected and precious Christmas gift on her doorstep: a baby girl. As the police search for the mother who abandoned the infant, Emily gains temporary custody of infant Jane and begins to wrestle with her yearnings to raise the child herself. Her husband, Dan, struggles with his own mixed feelings about the adoption.
8) Silas Marner
Author
Publisher
Focus on the Family
Pub. Date
[2008, 2000]
Language
English
Description
Betrayed by his best friend, Silas Marner loses his fiancee, his friends, his reputation and, worst of all, his faith in God. So, he puts his trust in gold, hoarding it, loving it. But then his treasure is stolen. Suddenly, a beautiful, golden-haired child enters his life, a little girl he loves more than his lost gold. But will his treasure be taken from him, too? Experience the transforming power of a child on a heart grown cold in Silas Marner,...
9) Fever crumb
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
Foundling Fever Crumb has been raised as an engineer although females in the future London, England, are not believed capable of rational thought, but at age fourteen she leaves her sheltered world and begins to learn startling truths about her past while facing danger in the present.
10) The lock-eater
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
Melanie Gate, a foundling with a peculiar talent for opening the unopenable, agrees to accompany a gearling automaton named Traveler on his quest to find a home, only to be pursued by the most dangerous wizard in the land and, along the way, discover her true powers.
Author
Series
Bride ships volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In 1863, Upon discovering an abandoned baby, Pastor Abe Merivale cares for the infant along with Zoe Hart, one of the newly arrived bride-ship women. With mounting pressure to find the baby a home, they hastily marry - but soon realize their marriage of convenience is not so convenient after all"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Publisher
Love Inspired
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"After he wrecks his car, Dr. Caleb Sutter finds himself stranded in an Amish community in Texas. What he didn't count on is becoming the temporary co-guardian to an abandoned newborn, along with pretty Amish teacher Rebecca Schroder. But the baby soon raises questions about his own family history, catching Caleb at a crossroads between his past--and the love he never expected to find."--
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