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1) A place to belong

Author

Nixon, Joan Lowery

Series

Orphan Train adventures volume 4
Orphan train quartet

Language

English

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In 1860, having traveled with his young sister from New York to a foster home on a farm near St. Joseph, Missouri, ten-year-old Danny plots to get his newly-widowed foster father to send for and marry his mother.

2) Caught in the act

Author

Nixon, Joan Lowery

Series

Orphan Train adventures volume 2
Orphan train quartet

Language

English

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Eleven-year-old Michael Patrick Kelly from New York City is sent to a foster home, a Missouri farm with a sadistic owner, a bullying son, and a number of secrets, one of which may be murder.

3) In the face of danger

Author

Nixon, Joan Lowery

Series

Orphan Train adventures volume 3
Orphan train quartet

Language

English

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Deeply unhappy about the separation of her family because of poverty, twelve-year-old Megan gradually finds contentment and purpose in her new home on the Kansas prairie with a kind and loving adopted family.

4) Blackberry Beach

Author

Hannon, Irene

Series

Hope Harbor volume 7

Language

English

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Book, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle, Large Print

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"Katherine Parker is on the cusp of having everything she ever wanted - fame, money, and acclaim. So why isn't she happy? In search of answers, she comes incognito to Hope Harbor on the Oregon coast for some R&R. Maybe in her secluded rental house overlooking the serene Pacific she'll be able to calm the storm inside. Coffee shop owner Zach Garrett has found his niche after a traumatic loss - and he has no plans to change the life he's created. Nor...

5) Anne of Green Gables

Author

Montgomery, L. M

Series

Anne of Green Gables volume 1
Usborne illustrated originals
Tantor unabridged classics
Puffin in bloom collection
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Language

English

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Book, Audiobook, CD, eAudiobook, eBook

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Anne, an eleven-year-old orphan, is sent by mistake to live with a lonely, middle-aged brother and sister on a Prince Edward Island farm and proceeds to make an indelible impression on every one around her.

6) Searching for home

Author

Vogt, Martha Nelson

Language

English

7) Welcome Comfort

Author

Polacco, Patricia

Publisher

Philomel Books

Language

English

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Welcome Comfort, a lonely foster child, is assured by his friend the school custodian that there is a Santa Claus, but he does not discover the truth until one wondrous and surprising Christmas Eve.

8) Grover G. Graham and me

Author

Quattlebaum, Mary

Publisher

Delacorte Press

Pub. Date

2001

Language

English

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In his eighth foster home since the death of his great-grandmother, eleven-year-old Ben becomes very attached to a baby living with the same family and worries when the baby's biological mother takes him away.

9) The promised land

Author

Holland, Isabelle

Publisher

Scholastic

Pub. Date

c1996

Language

English

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Orphaned by their mother's death, two Irish Catholic sisters find a home with a kind Protestant couple on the Kansas frontier, but their new life is suddenly threatened by the appearance of their uncle, who is determined to take them back to New York and their "true" religion.

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1) A place to belong

2) Caught in the act

3) In the face of danger

4) Blackberry Beach

5) Anne of Green Gables

6) Searching for home

7) Welcome Comfort

8) Grover G. Graham and me

9) The promised land