The Star Of Kazan
Annika, a twelve-year-old foundling in late nineteenth-century Vienna, inherits a trunk of costume jewelry, and soon afterwards a woman claiming to be her aristocratic mother arrives and takes her to live in a strangely decrepit mansion in Germany.
FIC
year: 2006
copies: 33
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 880
subjects: abandoned children [X], identity, mothers and daughters [X], jewelry, mystery and detective stories, vienna (austria), austria, germany, individuality, mother-daughter relationship [X], mystery fiction
The Rain Catchers
Growing up in a house full of women, fourteen-year-old Grayling learns to deal with death, love, and the unanswered questions raised by her widowed mother's apparent abandonment.
FIC
year: 1992
copies: 4
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 660
Kiffe Kiffe Tomorrow
After her father's abandonment, Doria struggles to make a new life for herself and her mother in the projects of Paris.
FIC
year: 2006
copies: 7
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 890
subjects: mothers and daughters [X], abandoned children [X], mother-daughter relationship [X], paris (france)
The Strange Inheritance Of Leah Fern
When 6-year-old empath Leah Fern--once 'the youngest and very best fortune teller in the world'--is abandoned by her beautiful magician mother, she is consumed with longing for her mother's return.
FIC
year: 2022
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: mothers and daughters [X], mother-daughter relationship [X], abandoned children [X], carnivals, inheritance and succession, magic, paranormal fiction, supernatural fiction