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21) The wonderling
Author
Series
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
450 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
In this extraordinary debut novel with its deft nod to Dickensian heroes and rogues, Mira Bartók tells the story of Arthur, a shy, fox-like foundling with only one ear and a desperate desire to belong, as he seeks his destiny.
Author
Publisher
Crown Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
324 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Lexington, a foundling raised in a zoo, spends a summer cementing friendships, growing closer to the elephant that saved her life, and learning about her family and herself.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
309 pages : map ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
From the time she was a crippled baby, left in a church, Maggie's life has never been easy but when she glimpses her destiny in a magic mirror, she goes off on a quest to find her father and, along the way, finds happiness, as well.
24) Land keep
Author
Series
Publisher
Shadow Mountain
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
374 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Having discovered that his destiny is tied to that of Farworld, Marcus, despite his growing power over water, struggles with physical pain and inner doubts as, with the help of his companions, he tries to complete the quest to find the other elementals that will help destroy the evil force of the Dark Circle.
25) Water keep
Author
Series
(Jeffrey Scott),Farworld volume 1
Publisher
Shadow Mountain
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
xi, 419 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Found in the desert as a baby by monks who named him, thirteen-year-old Marcus, who has been confined to a wheelchair ever since he can remember, knows nothing of his background and endures the difficulties of his daily life in various foster homes and schools by dreaming of Farworld, a magical place whose pull seems to be getting increasingly stronger.
27) Operation Bunny
Author
Series
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
1st American ed.
Physical Desc
176 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"When Emily Vole inherits an abandoned shop, it is up to her to battle a fairy-snatching witch and get to the bottom of Operation Bunny"--Page 4 of cover.
28) Factotum
Author
Series
Monster blood tattoo volume 3
Publisher
G.P Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
xiv, 684 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Accused of being a monster instead of human, Rossamünd Bookchild looks to monster-hunter Branden Rose for help, but powerful forces are after them both, believing that Rossamünd holds the secret to perpetual youth.
Author
Series
Way down deep novel volume 2
Publisher
Margaret Ferguson Books
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
165 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1954, when mine closings bring an economic crisis to Way Down Deep, West Virginia, foundling Ruby Jolene Hurley makes a thirteenth-birthday wish to find the treasure rumored to have been buried by one of the town's founders.
30) Raven summer
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
©[2009], 2008.
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
198 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Led to an abandoned baby by a raven, fourteen-year-old Liam seems fated to meet two foster children who have experienced the world's violence in very different ways as he struggles to understand war, family problems, and friends who grow apart.
31) Folly
Author
Publisher
Wendy Lamb Books
Pub. Date
[2010]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
249 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In a parallel narrative set in late nineteenth-century England, teenaged country girl Mary Finn relates the unhappy conclusion to her experiences as a young servant in an aristocratic London household while, years later, young James Nelligan describes how he comes to leave his beloved foster family to live and be educated at London's famous Foundling Hospital.
33) True heart
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
In the beautiful armor Joseph Lequire has created for Moonsilver, no one can tell he is a unicorn. It's safe for Heart to travel to Bidenfast, where she hopes to find her Gypsy friends. But the streets are jammed with people in town for the crowning of the new Lord Irmaedith, and the young lord himself takes a special interest in the unicorns. Will Heart be able to keep her secret?
34) The sunset gates
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Heart must find her family and a safe haven for the unicorns. A drawing in the book from Dunraven's castle shows the same unicorn design as her foundling blanket! Perhaps the book tells more about her family -- but she cannot read it. Searching for a teacher, she finds a blacksmith whose family forge was made by unicorn magic. His old records show that his grandfather made giant iron gates using the same design. If Heart can find those gates perhaps...
Author
Publisher
Peachtree Publishers
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
136 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"The Joneses have just won the Great Montgomery Book Emporium in a contest, and it's every book lover's dream! The pull of a lever calls forth a room full of marvelous wonders -- from the Room of Woodland tales with its squirrels and mice, to the rocket ship in the Room of Space Adventures, and the aquarium ceiling in the Room of Ocean Tales. But there is more to the Emporium than its thousands of books in extravagant displays. In fact, the previous...
Author
Series
Polar Bear Explorers' Club volume 1
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First US edition.
Physical Desc
xvi, 300 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Stella Starflake Pearl knows, without a doubt, that she was born to be an adventurer. It's too bad girls are forbidden from becoming explorers. But Stella's father has never been one to play by the rules. Leaving behind her pet polar bear, Gruff, and beloved unicorn, Magic, Stella and Felix set off on an expedition to the snowy Icelands. There, Stella plans to prove herself as a junior explorer, worthy of membership in the Polar Bear Explorers' Club....
Author
Series
Publisher
Capstone Young Readers
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
154 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
As a baby Minerva Mint was found in a travel bag in the waiting room of a London train station, together with the deed to a rundown mansion called Lizard Manor, and for nine years she has been living there with Geraldine Flopps, the former station custodian who found her--now, together with two new friends, she is determined to find her true identity.
38) Moonsilver
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
Heart Avamir, an abandoned girl with no memory of her origins, who wakes up one day in a strange feudal community. She lives with the hard-hearted curmudgeon who found her, but it is the neighborhood apothecary, Ruth, who names and befriends her. When the girl finds a wounded mare limping around untethered, she claims it for her own and nurses it back to health despite her guardian's protests that the animal would be better off sold for slaughter....
39) A web of air
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
In Mayda, a post-apocalyptic city off the coast of Portugal, a brilliant young engineer and a mysterious recluse race to build a flying machine, unaware that powerful enemies will kill to possess--or destroy--their new technology.
40) True colors
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2012]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
242 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1952 Vermont, ten-year-old Blue decides to set out in the middle of her town's sesquicentennial celebration to find the mother who abandoned her as a baby, but a series of events reminds her that she already has everything she needs.
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