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Abandoned children

The Girls

Lori Lansens

A fictional autobiography of conjoined twins told by Rose and Ruby Darlen, two young women who, nearing the age of thirty, are about to become history's oldest surviving twins to be joined at the head

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Firefly Cloak

Sheri Reynolds

Seven years after being abandoned with her little brother at a Tennessee campground, fifteen-year-old Tessa Lee learns that her mother has been living two hours away.

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Born Blue

Han Nolan

Janie was four years old when she nearly drowned due to her mother's neglect.

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Love in the Driest Season

Neely Tucker

Describes the white author's long and frustrating ordeal of trying to adopt a Zimbabwean AIDS-infected child.

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Acorna

Anne McCaffrey

The story of an amazing unicorn girl as she grows from foundling infant into a freedom-loving young woman.

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Born Blue

Han Nolan

Janie was four years old when she nearly drowned due to her mother's neglect.

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Orphan

Roger Dean Kiser

Roger Dean Kiser chronicles the experiences he had after he was abandoned by his family as a child, and discusses how his life in the system influenced him.

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The Painted Bird

Jerzy N. Kosinski

A young boy, abandoned by his parents during World War II, wanders though Eastern Europe.

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