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Lost And Found

author: Clements, Andrew, Jacobs, L. R, Dower, Laura, Louise Vitellaro Tidd, Tripp, Valerie, Purney, Dawn
Contains seven stories of some of history's most baffling cases of lost and found, including the disappearance of Amelia Earhart, and the discovery of the HMS "Beagle, " each with a time line, definitions of key words, and related facts.
FIC
year: 2012
copies: 123
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 780

The Turnabout Shop

author: Rodowsky, Colby F
In "conversations" with her dead mother, fifth-grader Livvy records her adjustment to living in Baltimore with a woman she had never met, and she comes to see the wisdom of her mother's choice as she gets to know the woman's large, loving family.
FIC
year: 1998
copies: 2
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 960
subjects: mothers and daughters, death, grief, orphans [X], mother-daughter relationship [X]

Unbroken

author: Haas, Jessie
Following her mother's death in the early 1900s, thirteen-year-old Harry lives on Aunt Sarah's farm where an accident with her spirited colt leaves her a changed young woman.
FIC
year: 2001
copies: 10
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 640
subjects: death, grief, orphans [X], aunts, mothers and daughters, horses, mother-daughter relationship [X]

Always With You

author: Vander Zee, Ruth
Orphaned at the age of four when her village in Vietnam is bombed, Kim is rescued by soldiers and raised in an orphanage, always finding comfort in her mothers last words--"Don't be afraid.
FIC
year: 2008
copies: 2
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 570
subjects: mothers and daughters, orphans [X], mother-daughter relationship [X], vietnam

Hazelle Boxberg

author: Goodman, Susan E.
Hazelle, taken to live in an orphanage after her mother is hospitalized, is forced to leave New York and travel to Texas on an orphan train, but she is lucky enough to be adopted by an understanding family that helps her find out what happened to her mom.
920
year: 2004
copies: 1
call number/section: 920
lexile:
subjects: orphans [X], mothers and daughters, historical fiction, mother-daughter relationship [X], texas

Unbroken

author: Haas, Jessie
Following her mother's death in the early 1900's, thirteen-year-old Harry lives on Aunt Sarah's farm where an accident with her spirited colt leaves her a changed young woman.
FIC
year: 2001
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 640
subjects: mother-daughter relationship [X], horses, aunts, orphans [X], grief

Zenn Diagram

author: Brant, Wendy
"Eva Walker is a seventeen-year-old math genius. And if that doesn't do wonders for her popularity, there is another thing that makes it even worse: when she touches another person or anything that belongs to them from clothes, to textbooks, to cell phones, she sees a vision of their emotions.
FIC
year: 2017
copies: 14
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 800

How To Make Friends With The Dark

author: Glasgow, Kathleen
Tiger, sixteen, has been pushing away from her overprotective mother, but when her mother dies suddenly Tiger must learn to live when it feels she is surrounded by darkness.
FIC
year: 2019
copies: 29
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: grief, death, orphans [X], single-parent families, mothers and daughters, mother-daughter relationship [X]

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