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Series
Language
English
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"A rumor that Blackbeard's buried treasure is somewhere near Tupelo Landing causes pirate fever to sweep through town just as clues about Mo's Upstream Mother surface and the Desperado Detectives--aka Mo LoBeau and her best friends Dale and Harm--take on the most important case of Mo's life"--
4) Fever Crumb
Author
Series
Language
English
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.
Author
Series
Accidental pirates volume 1
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Twelve-year-old Brine Seaborne and her friend Peter find themselves in an adventure with pirates, invisible bears, and a seriously evil magician"--
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
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.
7) Foundling
Author
Series
Monster blood tattoo volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Having grown up in a home for foundlings and possessing a girl's name, Rossamünd sets out to report to his new job as a lamplighter and has several adventures along the way as he meets people and monsters who are more complicated that he previously thought. Includes glossaries and maps.
Author
Series
Delphine series volume 1
Publisher
Disney Hyperion
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
When sixteen-year-old Delphine, a dressmaker mouse in Cinderella's chateau, learns of her connection to the Threaded, magical tailor mice of legend, she undertakes an epic quest to claim her identity.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Deep in the woods, in a rustic cabin, lives an old man and the boy he's raised as his own. This sage old man has taught the boy the power of nature and how to live in it, and more importantly, to respect it. In Fishbone's Song, this boy reminisces about the magic of the man who raised him and the tales that he used to tell--all true, but different each time."--
10) Way Down Deep
Author
Series
Way down deep novel volume 1
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the West Virginia town of Way Down Deep in the 1950s, a foundling called Ruby June is happily living with Miss Arbutus at the local boarding house when suddenly, after the arrival of a family of outsiders, the mystery of Ruby's past begins to unravel.
Author
Publisher
Nosy Crow
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 x 28 cm
Language
English
Description
When a little bundle appears on the Deer's doorstep, Mrs. Deer thinks her wish for a baby has come true while Mr. Deer is more wary, but the little one will not stop roaring and those who try to help keep disappearing.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2002]
Edition
First Aladdin edition.
Language
English
Description
Heart must hide her beloved unicorn, Moonsilver, from Lord Dunraven's hunters. She and her animal friends join a troupe of traveling minstrels. Everyone thinks Moonsilver's horn is fake--just part of the act. Then Moonsilver heals a badly injured boy and the unicorn's secret is in danger. Can Heart's mysterious silver bracelet help her find the one place Moonsilver might be safe?
13) Always October
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
[2012]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
367 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Best friends Jake and "Weird Lily" enter the monster-filled land of Always October, made famous in Jake's grandfather's books, to save a foundling who becomes a monster during the full moon.
14) Lamplighter
Author
Series
Monster blood tattoo volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
As Rosamund starts his life as a lamplighter on the Wormway, he continues his fight against monsters, making friends and enemies along the way, but questions about his origins continue to plague him. Includes glossary.
16) Tumbleweed Baby
Author
Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
Long ago in Nowhere, Texas, Mama and Papa Upagainstit agree to take in the wild baby their five children find in a passing tumbleweed, despite the objections of the one who used to be "the littlest-of-all girl."
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
283 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
A once-intrepid spy, a dignified rodent, and a girl with a perplexing past team up to find out who is draining the minds of great scientists of their knowledge.
Author
Series
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
[2002]
Edition
First Aladdin Paperbacks edition.
Physical Desc
76 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Heart must find a safe haven for her beloved unicorns and decipher the symbols on a bundle of paper found in Dunraven's castle, which may unlock the secrets of the dreams that have been haunting her.
Author
Publisher
David R. Godine
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 21 x 27 cm
Language
English
Description
When Isabella, a beautiful but lazy young woman, agrees to marry an equally lazy prince, the sorceress who raised her gives her the head of a goat in hopes that she will learn to do things for herself.
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