Catherine Ryan Hyde
Author
Publisher
Amazon Publishing
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
While duck hunting one morning, childless, middle-aged Nathan McCann finds a newborn abandoned in the woods. To his shock, the child is still alive. To his wife's shock, Nathan wants to adopt the boy, but the child's grandmother steps in. Nathan makes her promise, however, that one day she'll bring the boy to meet him so he can reveal that he was the one who rescued him. Fifteen years later, the widowered Nathan discovers the child abandoned...
2) Worthy
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Years after a tragedy ends her relationship with a loving widower and his son, Virginia breaks off her engagement to a man who loses her dog and ends up bonding with the dog's rescuer, a person from her past.
4) Ask Him Why
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
Ruth and Aubrey are worried about their hero older brother, who returned from a deployment in Iraq just three months after he left, and who disappears amidst unanswered questions.
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
After the death of her best friend and business partner, a high-powered Manhattan lawyer seeks a new life on a ramshackle farm in the Adirondacks, complete with squatters who she allows to stay, despite believing she doesn't want company.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
A gay teenage boy and a fragile teenage girl meet while living on the streets of New York City and eventually decide to take a road trip across America to discover whether or not the world is a beautiful place.
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Raised off the grid by his survivalist father in the middle of nowhere, his own survival skills not yet honed, Remy is days shy of his eighth birthday when his father unexpectedly dies. He is found--near feral, silent, and terrified--in the small rural town of Blaire. To Anne, a nurturing mother of two adopted teenagers who's still dealing with her own childhood rejections, Remy is not a lost cause. Just a challenging one. As Remy cautiously adapts...
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Rescuing seven puppies from a nearby river, 13-year-old Abby, whose cruel father makes life miserable, hides the puppies in an abandoned cabin where she meets a grieving widower named Elliot who helps her — and her mother — find the courage to be free.