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Language
English
Description
Narrator Jack and his mother, who was kidnapped seven years earlier when she was a 19-year-old college student, celebrate his fifth birthday. They live in a tiny, 11-foot-square soundproofed cell in a converted shed in the kidnapper's yard. The sociopath, whom Jack has dubbed Old Nick, visits at night, grudgingly doling out food and supplies. But Ma, as Jack calls her, proves to be resilient and resourceful--and attempts a nail-biting escape.
3) Son
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Unlike the other Birthmothers in her utopian community, teenaged Claire forms an attachment to her baby, feeling a great loss when he is taken to the Nurturing Center to be adopted by a family unit.
Author
Series
[Bird box volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Twelve years after Malorie and her children rowed up the river to safety, a blindfold is still the only thing that stands between sanity and madness. There remains no explanation, no solution. But for the first time Malorie has allowed herself to hope: someone very dear to her, someone she believed dead, may be alive. Now she must choose: to live by the rules of survival that have served her so well, or to venture into the darkness and reach for...
13) Sailor's song
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
A mother sings her child a song that describes how a sailor makes his way home from the sea to his family.
14) On the rooftop
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A stunning novel about a mother whose dream of musical stardom for her three daughters collides with the daughters' ambitions for their own lives-set against the backdrop of gentrifying 1950s San Francisco"--
16) I'll be there
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
A young boy and his mother talk about what she did for him as a baby, what he can do for himself now, and that she will always be there when he needs her.
17) Never far away
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Placed in witness protection in remote northern Maine, Leah risks exposing herself to the dangerous forces of her past when her homesick children run away.
18) Little mouse
Author
Publisher
Disney Hyperion Books
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
A little girl explains how she does not always fit her nickname, little mouse, but it is perfect for when she is cuddling with her mother.
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