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English
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The foundling Tom Jones is found on the property of a benevolent, wealthy landowner. Tom grows up to be a vigorous, kind-hearted young man, whose love of his neighbor's well-born daughter brings class friction to the fore. The presence of prostitution and promiscuity in Tom Jones caused a sensation at the time it was published, as such themes were uncommon. It is divided into 18 shorter books, and is considered one of the first English-language
...2) Fever Crumb
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English
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Foundling Fever Crumb has been raised as an engineer although females in the future London, England, are not believed capable of rational thought, but at age fourteen she leaves her sheltered world and begins to learn startling truths about her past while facing danger in the present.
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Series
Language
English
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A clever farce poking fun at the complex set of social conventions that defined upper-class England at the time, the play tells the story of Jack and Algernon and the antics that ensue as they seek romance while also trying to avoid the cumbersome demands of their class. To this end, they both adopt the alias Ernest, causing no end of confusion. Despite its resounding success, scandal in Wilde's personal life caused the run to be ended early. It has,...
6) The guardian
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Language
English
Description
When Jodi Winfield comes to Lancaster to house-sit, the last thing she expects to find is a disheveled little girl alone on the side of the road who can't speak English; Jodi turns her attention to Hickory Hollow--and the cloistered world of the Old Order Amish--in search of answers.
Author
Series
Bunnicula series volume 1
Publisher
Aladdin Paperbacks
Language
English
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Though scoffed at by Harold the dog, Chester the cat tries to warn his human family that their foundling baby bunny must be a vampire.
Author
Series
Cemeteries of Amalo volume 2
Publisher
Tor, a Tom Doherty Associates Book
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Description
"In The Grief of Stones, Katherine Addison returns to the world of The Goblin Emperor with a direct sequel to The Witness For The Dead... Celehar's life as the Witness for the Dead of Amalo grows less isolated as his circle of friends grows larger. He has been given an apprentice to teach, and he has stumbled over a scandal of the city-the foundling girls. Orphans with no family to claim them and no funds to buy an apprenticeship. Foundling boys go...
10) Moonsilver
Author
Series
Publisher
Aladdin Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2001
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
Series
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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Description
"A rumor that Blackbeard's buried treasure is somewhere near Tupelo Landing causes pirate fever to sweep through town just as clues about Mo's Upstream Mother surface and the Desperado Detectives--aka Mo LoBeau and her best friends Dale and Harm--take on the most important case of Mo's life"--
Author
Series
Accidental pirates volume 1
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2016.
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"--
15) Red butterfly
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2015?]
Language
English
Description
In China, a foundling girl with a deformed hand raised in secret by an American woman must navigate China's strict adoption system when she is torn away from the only family she has ever known.
17) Breakout
Author
Publisher
Cricket Books
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
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, her hunger for her unknown mother, and her yearning for human connection.
18) Fishbone's song
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Language
English
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Description
"Deep in the woods, in a rustic cabin, lives an old man and the boy he's raised as his own. This sage old man has taught the boy the power of nature and how to live in it, and more importantly, to respect it. In Fishbone's Song, this boy reminisces about the magic of the man who raised him and the tales that he used to tell--all true, but different each time"--
20) Rory's promise
Author
Series
Hidden histories volume 1
Publisher
Calkins Creek, an imprint of Highlights
Pub. Date
[2014?]
Language
English
Description
Twelve year old Rory Fitzpatrick and her younger sister are orphans living in New York City's Foundling Hospital. When Rory finds out her sister is being sent to the Arizona Territory to be adopted, she decides she is going to do whatever it takes to stay with her sister. So Rory stows away on a train traveling west. When Rory and her sister arrive in Arizona everything goes wrong.
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