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Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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Description
Washed ashore as a baby in tiny Tupelo Landing, North Carolina, Mo LoBeau, now eleven, and her best friend Dale turn detective when the amnesiac Colonel, owner of a café and co-parent of Mo with his cook, Miss Lana, seems implicated in a murder.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
"All sorcerers are evil. Elisabeth has known that as long as she has known anything. Raised as a foundling in one of Austermeer's Great Libraries, Elisabeth has grown up among the tools of sorcery -- magical grimoires that whisper on shelves and rattle beneath iron chains. If provoked, they transform into grotesque monsters of ink and leather. She hopes to become a warden, charged with protecting the kingdom from their power. Then an act of sabotage...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Oyster R. Motel, a lonely boy raised as a foundling in a Baltimore nunnery, travels through a portal to the imaginary world of his parents, where he heroically confronts the villainous Dark Mouth.
Author
Series
Unicorn's secret volume 4
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
To protect her gypsy friends, Heart and her unicorns leave them to continue their search for the place shown in Lord Dunraven's book whose symbols match those on Heart's foundling blanket.
Author
Series
Heromaker duology volume 1
Language
English
Description
"Aristene are an order of mythical female warriors. Though heroes might be immortalized in legends, it's the Aristene who guide their paths to victory. They are the Heromakers. Raised by the order after being orphaned, Reed grew up surrounded by her future sisters-in-arms and the incredible stories of their quests. She's been counting the days until her initiation, and now one final test stands in her way: shepherding her first hero to glory on the...
Author
Series
Publisher
American Girl Pub
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
When Marie-Grace discovers a baby outside her father's office and a slave catcher claims the boy, she helps place him at a white orphanage where she becomes a volunteer, as her friendship with C�ecile grows and she hears rumors of yellow fever.
8) Moonsilver
Author
Series
Publisher
Aladdin Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Heart, a foundling who was discovered five years earlier wrapped in a unicorn-embroidered blanket, finds a pregnant white mare in the woods and struggles to keep her and her colt safe and well.
Author
Publisher
Skyscape
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Kai, who has no memories from before she was found by Reev, whom she considers her brother, but who has the ability to slow time, and her friend Avan search for the missing Reev and become involved in a revolt against the ruler of Ninurta.
10) True colors
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
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.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
When dissension erupts in the town of Foley, South Carolina, after a baby is left on the steps of the Rock of Ages Baptist Church, eleven-year-old Randall must decide whether or not to keep secret his knowledge of who the foundling's mother is.
Author
Series
Publisher
Kathy Dawson Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
"When Miss Lana accidentally buys a haunted inn at the Tupelo Landing town auction, Desperado Detectives--aka Mo LoBeau and her best friend Dale--opens up a paranormal division to solve the ghost's identity before the town's big 250th anniversary bash"--
Author
Series
Accidental pirates volume 1
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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
Publisher
Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
"After unearthing a conspiracy at court, Red Sparkle Stone, the foundling orphan Empress Elisa has taken under her wing, dares to become a recruit for the Royal Guard-something no woman has done before"--
Author
Series
Minerva Mint volume 1
Publisher
Capstone Young Readers, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 3
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.
16) Operation Bunny
Author
Series
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
At the age of nine, Emily Vole, a foundling raised to be housemaid and nanny for a wealthy couple, inherits a shop and discovers a magical world where, with the help of Fidget the talking cat, she must try to save fairies being targeted by a terrible witch.
17) Breakout
Author
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2005, ©2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
A young woman presents a play based on her life as a seventeen-year-old runaway whose escape from her foster home in Los Angeles is thwarted by an all-day traffic jam, an event which provides time for her to explore her free-floating identity, hunger for her unknown mother, and yearning for human connection.
Author
Publisher
Margaret Ferguson Books, Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Left at the Mostly Silent Monastery in Washington, D.C. as a toddler and home-schooled by a retired nun, twelve-year-old Bicycle rides cross-country to meet a famous cyclist who she hopes will be her first friend.
20) The wonderling
Author
Series
Wonderling volume 1
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 14
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.
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