missing children

Mini Rabbit refuses all help and denies he is lost during his epic quest to find more berries for the cake he and Mother Rabbit are making.

When a child goes missing from the Orphan House in the town of Stone-in-the-Glen, the mayor suggests the kindly Ogress is responsible, but the orphans do not believe that and try to make their deluded neighbors see the real villain among them.

Nineteen-year-old orphan Kidan Adane, heiress to a fallen House of humans tethered to vampiric creatures called draniacs, navigates her duty to foster human-draniac relations, but when her sister is kidnapped, Kidan suspects a draniac and will do anything to find her.

"July 1962. Following in the tradition of Indigenous workers from Nova Scotia, a Mi'kmaq family arrives in Maine to pick blueberries for the summer. Weeks later, four-year-old Ruthie, the family's youngest child, vanishes. She is last seen by her six-year-old brother, Joe, sitting on a favorite rock at the edge of a berry field. Joe will remain distraught by his sister's disappearance for years to come. In Maine, a young girl named Norma grows up as the only child of an affluent family. Her father is emotionally distant, her mother frustratingly overprotective. Norma is often troubled by recurring dreams and visions that seem more like memories than imagination. As she grows older, Norma slowly comes to realize there is something her parents aren't telling her. Unwilling to abandon her intuition, she will spend decades trying to uncover this family secret"--Provided by publisher.

When a child goes missing from the Orphan House in the town of Stone-in-the-Glen, the mayor suggests the kindly Ogress is responsible, but the orphans do not believe that and try to make their deluded neighbors see the real villain among them.

"Ali Tahir is a Pakistani American second grader who loves his family and friends--and also loves getting attention! Ali's big ideas sometimes lead to a little trouble--but his clever solutions and kind heart always save the day. Whether he's at the South Asian market, the dinosaur museum, a rainy indoor recess, or an Eid party in his own backyard, Ali is always discovering new things. Jump into this lively collection of four stories to see how every day is an adventure with curious, clever Ali!"--Back cover.

When ten-year-old orphan Peter Augustus Duchene encounters a fortune teller in the marketplace one day who tells him that his sister, who is presumed dead, is in fact alive, he embarks on a remarkable series of adventures in an attempt to find her.

"Malaya, 1945. Cecily Alcantara's family is in terrible danger: her fifteen-year-old son, Abel, has disappeared, and her younger daughter, Jasmin, hides in a basement to avoid being pressed into service at the comfort stations. Her older daughter, Jujube, who serves tea to drunk Japanese soldiers, becomes angrier by the day. Cecily knows two things: that this is all her fault, and that her family must never learn the truth. A decade prior, Cecily, desperate to be more than a housewife in British-colonized Malaya, is lured into a life of espionage by the charismatic General Fuijwara. Mesmerized by a dream of an 'Asia for Asians,' she helps usher in a war, and with it, a new and more brutal occupier. Now, her family is on the brink of destruction--and she will do anything to save them"--Provided by publisher.

Omega will have to learn to trust her powers once again as she comes face to face with the Mexican legend El Cucuy.

In 1978, to avoid becoming a desaparecido like her mother, eighteen-year-old Mavi takes a teaching job at Vaccaro School, an isolated finishing school in Patagonia, rumored to be haunted.