Catalog Search Results
Author
Language
English
Description
"At the turn of the twentieth century in the Pacific Northwest, reclusive orchardist William Talmadge tends to his apples and apricots. One day, two teenaged girls steal his fruit and later return to his orchard to see the man who gave them no chase. Feral, scared, and pregnant, they take up on Talmadge's land and indulge in his deep reservoir of compassion. But just as the girls begin to trust him, men arrive in the orchard with guns ..." --P. [4]...
Author
Language
English
Description
When her 16-year-old daughter reveals that she is pregnant--an announcement that shocks the small community of Yorktide, Maine--Cindy Bauer, as their family is thrown into chaos, bands together with her friends and neighbors to make a baby quilt that reflects all of their hopes and dreams.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
The story of three sisters: young Frances, gregarious and strong-willed Jory, and moral-minded Grace. Their father, Oren, is a respected member of the community and science professor at the local college. Yet their mother's depression and Grace's religious fervor threaten the seemingly perfect family, whose world is upended when Grace returns from a missionary trip to Mexico and discovers she's pregnant with--she believes--the child of God. Distraught,...
Author
Series
At 17 volume 02
Language
English
Formats
Description
After learning that she is pregnant and the man she testified against is getting out of prison, Chelsea finds an unlikely friend in Sonia, a generous woman who Chelsea believes she can trust, but trouble from her past looms.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Set against the backdrop of the deadly 2007 wildfires that forced the evacuation of half a million San Diego residents, Debra Ginsberg’s new novel, The Neighbors Are Watching, examines the dark side of suburbia—a place where everyone has something to hide.
Aside from their annual block party, the neighbors on Fuller Court tend to keep to themselves—which doesn’t mean that they aren’t all watching and...
Aside from their annual block party, the neighbors on Fuller Court tend to keep to themselves—which doesn’t mean that they aren’t all watching and...
6) Hooked
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
After their relationship survives Will going to college, their love is tested again when Thea realizes she is pregnant.
Author
Language
English
Description
She isn't your typical teenage kidnapped victim. She's a 16-year-old pregnant teenager, and from the moment she is kidnapped, she feels a calm desire to not only save her unborn son but to also exact merciless revenge. Leaving nothing to chance, and secure in her timing and practice, she considers what her assets are and waits for the perfect moment to strike. Method 15/33 is what happens when the victim is just as cold as her abductors.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
950L
Language
English
Description
A pregnant girl abandoned by her boyfriend hides in a Wal-Mart store, gives birth and becomes a celebrity as the mother of the Wal-Mart Baby. Help flows from everywhere as people jump on the publicity bandwagon, then the baby is kidnaped.
Author
Language
English
Description
"Eighteen years old, pregnant, and working as a pizza delivery girl in suburban Los Angeles, our charmingly dysfunctional heroine is deeply lost and in complete denial about it all. She's grieving the death of her father (who she has more in common with than she'd like to admit), avoiding her supportive mom and loving boyfriend, and flagrantly ignoring her future. Her world is further upended when she becomes obsessed with Jenny, a stay-at-home mother...
10) Kinfolk
Author
Language
English
Description
"When a mysterious teenager shows up in Nub's life in rural Alabama, he learns that family, forgiveness, and kindness can be found in the most unlikely of places." --
11) Under the radar
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
A Sister's work is never done--not when there are wrongs to right and underdogs to defend. Just returned to their mountaintop hideaway in the wake of their latest successful mission, the seven fearless friends have barely had time to enjoy a celebratory dinner with their mentor, Charles Martin, when they're embroiled in a new adventure.
12) Plan A
Author
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Ivy's road trip across the country to get an abortion becomes a transformative journey of vulnerability, strength, and above all, choice.
"Ivy can't entirely believe it when the plus sign appears on the test. Now, instead of spending the summer in her small Texas town working at the local drugstore and swooning over her boyfriend, Lorenzo, she's planning a cross-country road trip to her grandmother's house on the West Coast, where...
13) Reunion: a novel
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Keira Johnson, a 50-year-old mother of two grown sons, believes she lives a good Christian life without secrets-- until she discovers a life-jarring fact her late mother kept hidden all her life. Kiera was born out of wedlock, and the man she had always known as her father had adopted her as an infant.
14) The Banty House
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A homeless young woman finds an unexpected family in beloved New York Times bestselling author Carolyn Brown's novel of healing hearts and new beginnings in a small Texas town."--Provided by publisher.
15) Take the lead
Author
Series
Dance with me volume 2
Language
English
Description
"Growing up in foster care, Officer Traci Lucky had a rough start to life, but things are looking up now that she's found a place in Bridgeport with two sisters she never knew she had. One night while on the job Traci finds Gwen, a pregnant teen caught up in a dangerous world of drugs, and takes her straight to the hospital. There Traci encounters the oh-so-charming Dr. Matt Rossi, who surprises Traci with his compassion--and his movie-star good looks....
Author
Language
English
Description
In the small Amish town of Sugarcreek, Ohio, Joshua knows what's expected of him: work at the family store and marry Gretta, whom he's courted for years. But when a new English family moves in next door - and their teenage daughter, Lilly, catches his eye - Joshua wonders if his future is too firmly set in stone. Gretta is shocked by the change in Joshua, and considers what her life would be like without him. But Lilly, enamored of her handsome neighbor,...
17) Just between us
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Monica Albright volunteers to be a big sister to fourteen-year-old, motherless Ann Small during a troubling time in her life.
18) Two weeks
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"From #1 New York Times bestselling author Karen Kingsbury comes a heart-wrenching and redemptive new story in the Baxter Family series about a couple desperately waiting to bring their adopted child home and a young mother about to make the biggest decision of her life. Cole Blake, son of Landon and Ashley Baxter Blake, is months away from going off to college and taking the first steps towards his dream--a career in medicine. But as he starts his...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2006]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
The inner worlds of characters isolated by geography and habit are revealed in a novel, set in the Nebraska Sandhills, about an aging widow on the verge of losing her family's ranch and her sixteen-year old pregnant granddaughter who visits her for the summer.
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Materials Request Service. Submit Request