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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 6
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From blurb: "It's like looking into a mirror, and seeing yourself, except it's not you. It's someone else. -- They were both twelve, though they'd been given different birthdays by accident. The had the same color hair, the same color eyes; they were the same height, though Alice was skinner.".
2) Orphan train
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
890L
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English
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"Between 1854 and 1929, so-called orphan trains ran regularly from the cities of the East Coast to the farmlands of the Midwest, carrying thousands of abandoned children whose fates would be determined by luck and chance. This is the story of one such child. As a young Irish immigrant, Vivian Daly was sent by rail from New York City to an uncertain future a world away. Returning east later in life, Vivian leads a quiet, peaceful existence on the coast...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
690L
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English
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Maud Flynn is "plain, clever, and bad," so it comes as a surprise when she's plucked from the Barbary Asylum for Female Orphans and adopted by the elderly Hawthorne sisters. Maud eagerly hopes to be pampered and cherished by the sisters, and life seems perfect -- until Maud learns of the role she has to play in the high-stakes "family business." Set in the early twentieth century, a drowned Maiden's Hair takes readers into the shadowy world of spiritualism...
4) Pollyanna
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
480L
Language
English
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Unwanted and unloved, Pollyanna Whittier comes to her aunt's home without a warm welcome. Pollyanna's irrepressible spirits make punishments seem like treats and her cheerfulness brings happiness to her aunt and other members of the community.
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Based on the author's research into her grandfather's past as an adopted child, and the surprising discovery of his family of origin and how he came to be adopted, Julia Park Tracey has created a mesmerizing work of historical fiction illuminating the darkest side of the Orphan Train. In 1859, women have few rights, even to their own children. When her husband dies and her children become wards of a predator, Martha--bereaved and scared--flees their...
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"What if the most important decision of your life was not yours to make? This vivid and powerful novel follows two women whose paths intersect at a maternity home in the "Baby Scoop Era." In 1960, free-spirited Doreen is a recent high-school grad and waitress in a Chicago diner. She doesn't know Margie, sixteen and bookish, who lives a sheltered suburban life, but they soon meet when unplanned pregnancies send them to the Holy Family Home for the...
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[Guardian's son] volume i
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English
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"An American army doctor, Major Grayson Pierce, finds a little boy hiding in a stench-filled barrack at the Buchenwald concentration camp in April 1945. A devout Catholic, Pierce realizes that God is allowing him to save one precious life among the ubiquitous piles of naked corpses in this notorious Nazi slave labor camp. After the war, the doctor, a widower, brings Joe to his home in Ithaca, New York, and becomes his guardian. At the Pierce mansion,...
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Eleven-year-old Ellen finds herself wrongly accused of stealing while selling flowers on the Liverpool docks. In her escape she becomes a stowaway aboard a steamship bound for Canada, an unwilling member of a band of orphans headed for new families on the Prairies. Adopted by the Aitkens, a family on a Manitoba homestead, she soon lands herself at the centre of a number of calamities, unexpectedly learning about rural life in the New World and the...
10) Sunrise
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'It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us Father and Son.' -Johann Schiller
Rune is, caught by vampire hunters and used, as bait to lure starving, vampires. Rune is on the cusp of death, content to let life go after living on the street for so many years, but this all changes when one vampire finds him. It is Syrus Valerius, a vampire wandering the earth for five-hundred years, who finds this young boy and offers him eternal life.
Wakening...
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What great things will you do if you discover a time portal?
Will you save children from their imminent deaths, change your fate, and change history? Will it affect the present or make another past?
Journey with Dr. Daniel Wallace and Willie Lincoln as they travel through time in Saving CJ-a story with a wonderful blend of friendship, history, and time travel.
12) Raccoon Summer
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Climbing the tree to rescue the orphaned baby raccoons was just the beginning.
From eye dropper to bottle feedings, from wiggling worms to pinching crayfish, from cage building to camping trips to final release-Lance's summer has never been so busy, or so bodaciously awesome. He could almost call it a perfect summer.
Except for the situation with his mom.
His mom who is thinking of adopting a human baby-a baby with Down syndrome.
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I became a man when I was nine. My other option was death.
I just didn't know it then, but the truth is that I...we...had to leave.
Why would parents send their children, alone, to a foreign country with no guarantee that they would ever see each other again? From December 1960 to October 1962, over 14,000 unescorted children fled Cuba for the United States in what became known as Operation Peter Pan. Under Fidel Castro's tyrannical regime, the state...
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Two women. One secret. Will they be able to keep it under wraps?
It was a stormy evening in 1920s London. When newly qualified almoner, Alice, stepped into the home of Charlotte, a terrified teenager who had just given birth out of wedlock, she did not expect to make a pact that would change her life forever. Thrown into secrecy after an unexpected turn, Alice was determined to keep bewildered Charlotte and her newborn baby safe. But when a threatening...
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Letters from Alice can either be read as a full-length eBook or in 3 serialised eBook-only parts.
This is PART 1 of 3.
It was a stormy evening in 1920s London. When newly qualified almoner, Alice, stepped into the home of Charlotte, a terrified teenager who had just given birth out of wedlock, she did not expect to make a pact that would change her life forever. Thrown into secrecy after an unexpected turn, Alice was determined to keep bewildered...
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It was a stormy evening in 1920s London. When newly qualified almoner, Alice, stepped into the home of Charlotte, a terrified teenager who had just given birth out of wedlock, she did not expect to make a pact that would change her life forever. Thrown into secrecy after an unexpected turn, Alice was determined to keep bewildered Charlotte and her newborn baby safe. But when a threatening note appeared, she realized that Charlotte may need more protection...
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It was a stormy evening in 1920s London. When newly qualified almoner, Alice, stepped into the home of Charlotte, a terrified teenager who had just given birth out of wedlock, she did not expect to make a pact that would change her life forever. Thrown into secrecy after an unexpected turn, Alice was determined to keep bewildered Charlotte and her newborn baby safe. But when a threatening note appeared, she realized that Charlotte may need more protection...
18) The family way
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Cammie series volume Prequel
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English
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"Tulia May lives in rural Nova Scotia with her mother, who works in the laundry of the nearby Ideal Maternity Home. It㠡 place where unwed mothers can discreetly give birth, a place where adoptions by rich Americans can be quickly arranged. Tulia doesn䠴hink about the workings of the home much; mostly she hates being roped in to helping scrub the endless diapers. Her friend Finny Paul has suspicions that the home is holding sinister secrets the...
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With high school behind him, Sam Barger was ready to make 1969 his year. He would finally become a setnet fisherman like he'd always dreamed. Sam soon learned that dreams and reality often differ with the fishing turned sour, the military draft was threatening, and his girlfriend was pregnant. With Tricky Dick in the White House, peace talks in Paris, and war in Vietnam all of America was in turmoil. After 1967s summer of love and 1968s summer of...
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Is their love strong enough to weather the storm?
It's 1945, the war is over and the soldiers are coming back to the bomb-ravaged East End. Tom Smith is one of the thousands who are returning home. He can't wait to see his wife, Jessie, their son, Billy, and the new baby daughter he hasn't even laid eyes on.
But life back home wasn't easy, especially once Jessie's army pension was stopped after Tom deserted. So when she was told to put her infant...
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