abandoned children

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abandoned children

En la oscuridad

1995
Tells the story of six-year-old Roli?a who has been abandoned on the streets of Sao Paulo and her struggle to survive.

Man crazy

a novel
1997

Stranded

2010
When Kelly Louise and her mother move to Heaven, Iowa, to live with her grandmother and cousin, she learns a terrible secret about a baby recently left to die in a corn field and must decide whether or not to tell the truth.

The foundling

1986
A French foundling who is sold to a circus at the age of eight experiences many adventures before he finally finds his real home.

Kumquat May, I'll always love you

1986
Abandoned by her mother, Livvy decides she is smart and self-reliant enough to live by herself, if she can only keep her situation a secret.

The Body in the Sleigh

2010
Faith Fairchild looks for a connection between the death of a teenage drug addict whose body was found in an antique sleigh, and the discovery of a newborn baby boy in the manger of spinster Mary Bethany's barn on Christmas Eve.

The Gift Moves

2006
In a futuristic United States devoid of wealth and material things, a teenage baker befriends a talented weaver's apprentice who holds a dark secret.

It's love we don't understand

2002
In three episodic scenes of their family life, a fifteen-year-old girl describes the troubled interrelationships, alternating between love and hate, between herself and her siblings and their self-absorbed, neglectful, and often absent mother.

Jackie's jokes

the Sisters 8, book 4
2009
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.

Georgia's greatness

the Sisters 8, book 3
2009
As the Huit octuplets prepare for a St. Patrick's Day parade, Georgia discovers her powers and uncovers the substitute teacher's secret.

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