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Penobscot Indian Molly Ayer is close to 'aging out' out of the foster care system. A community service position helping an elderly woman clean out her home is the only thing keeping Molly out of juvie and worse. As she helps Vivian sort through her possessions and memories, Molly learns that she and Vivian aren't as different as they seem to be. A young Irish immigrant orphaned in New York City, Vivian was put on a train to the Midwest with hundreds...

Under the guise of a normal life, Ella Black hides a disturbing trait. Inside her nests a destructive impulse, which she calls Bella (contraction of Bad Ella), that seizes her actions and wreaks havoc on her daily. However, this intimate battle is not her only secret: after being forced by her parents to a hasty and inexplicable trip to Brazil, she will discover that her existence is based on a deception. Disgusted and confused, she embarks on a desperate...

Seventh-grader Ben, always an outsider, is led into a deep friendship with Halley, who is being treated for cancer, by the special dog he and his adoptive mother take in.

"After eleven-year-old David Bravo wishes for a do-over of a disastrous day of middle school, he and a shapeshifting spirit guide try to right a wrong in his past"--

"The sun beamed down on Melissa Henderson's shining dark hair, pinned up on her head in a loose knot, as sweat ran down her face, and the muscles in her long, lithe arms were taut with effort as she worked. She was lost in concentration, sanding a door of the house in the Berkshire Mountains in Massachusetts that had been her salvation. She had bought it four years before. It had been weather-beaten, shabby and in serious need of repair when she found...

Mary is adopted by mysterious Madame Z and in her new life begins to uncover scary secrets. -- Twelve-year-old Mary Hayes can't stand her orphanage. But when an attempted escape doesn't go quite as well as she'd hoped, Mary fears she'll be stuck in the Buffalo Asylum for Young Ladies forever. The very next day, a mysterious woman named Madame Z appears at the orphanage requesting to adopt Mary. The matron's all too happy to get the girl off her hands....

En el invierno de 1956, la joven embarazada Ivy es enviada en desgracia a St Margaret's, un hogar para madres solteras en el sur de Inglaterra, dirigido por monjas, para tener su hijo. Adoptan a su pequeña hija. Ivy nunca se irá. Sesenta años después, la periodista Samantha se topa con una serie de cartas de Ivy a su amante, suplicándole que la rescate de St. Margaret's antes de que sea demasiado tarde. Mientras Sam reconstruye la trágica historia...

A young girl asks her parents to tell her again the cherished family story of her birth and adoption.

After a hit-and-run accident kills her mother and leaves her badly injured, Sasha, formerly homeless, is taken in by a wealthy stranger who has never recovered from the loss of her own daughter and wants Sasha to take her place.

The Little Woman loves living in the big city despite all of the noise, so when she is given a peaceful farm in the country and finds it too quiet to be relaxing, she sets out to make it feel like home.