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|author= Hana Tooke
|title= The Unadoptables
|rating= 5
|genre= Confident Readers
|summary= In the winter of 1880, five babies are abandoned at the Little Tulip orphanage in Amsterdam, much to the annoyance of matron Gasbeek. Twelve years later, Milou, the last of the five babies to be abandoned back in that winter, struggles to work out the identity of her parents from the clues she was abandoned with: a small coffin with claw-marks on the outside, a cat doll made by someone called Bram Poppenmaker, and a velvet blanket. She, along with the other four, patiently wait for Milou's parents to come back and take her home. However, when the five children are sold to the dodgy merchant Meneer Rotman, they know they have to escape. And so begins the adventure of a lifetime as the Unadoptables join forces to reunite Milou with her parents, all the time being pursued by the Kinderbureau and Rotman…
|isbn=0241417465
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|author=Rob Harrell
In the heart of the Amazon rainforest, Maya is on the run after her father is kidnapped. Alone and unsure who to trust, she forges ahead. Raul is returning to his old village, the scene of an atrocity when he was a child, with vengeance on his mind. When the two run head-long into each other, so begins a tale of the how the old and the spiritual meets modern corruption and greed, and the children's quest to bring the truth to light.[[Fire Girl, Forest Boy by Chloe Daykin|Full Review]]
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