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Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Description
242 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Karen Nieto passed her earliest years a feral child, left alone to wander the vast beach property near her family failing tuna cannery in Mazatlan, Mexico. When her mother dies, Karen's long-kept family secret is revealed. What to do with the troubled and autistic Karen?
Author
Language
English
Description
"Two teens appear out of nowhere, ransacking a small-town grocery and attacking the police officers who come to investigate. Their clothes are torn and filthy, their hands and bare feet callused, they have fangs. They're sister and brother, alone against the world. Where did they come from? Raised by wolves, they say. Kai and Holo are taken in by the police chief and his wife, and begin adjusting to life in a small town, attending school and going...
Author
Language
English
Description
The Jungle Book is a collection of Rudyard Kipling's animal stories, wonderfully told and interweaving moral lessons with classic tales. They include the stories of Mowgli, a boy raised by wolves in the Indian jungle, Rikki-Tikki-Tavi, a brave mongoose, and Toomai of the Elephants, the story of a young elephant handler. The Jungle Book was first published by Macmillan in 1894.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Denounced by her 1950 Tennessee community as an old maid, 30-something Ivorie Walker hides her loneliness and grief over her mother's death behind good-humored independence before advocating on behalf of a feral boy who has been stealing vegetables from her garden.
6) Angel's gate
Author
Pub. Date
c1995
Physical Description
252 p. ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Kimmy encounters two wild children who have grown up in the hills of Australia and tries to protect them from the unknown person who murdered their father.
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Description
323 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Out there is chaos, the collapse of society, and so much to be afraid of. All that matters is freedom. That's what Remy Blake has been taught by his survivalist father. Raised off the grid 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...
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Description
321 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"He believes he can save the girl in the woods. He doesn't know how wrong he is. In the deep woods of East Texas, Henry supports his family by selling bootleg liquor. It's all he can do to keep his compassionate but ailing mother and his stepfather--a fanatical grassroots minister with a bruising rhetoric--from ruin. But they have no idea they've become the obsession of the girl in the woods. Abandoned and nearly feral, Eve has been watching them,...
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Description
531 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
As a building awaits demolition, a horrifying discovery is made inside the basement: a cage made of human bones, with a terrified, feral child lurking within. Unbeknownst to Detective Inspector Phil Brennan and psychologist Marina Esposito, they have disturbed a killer who has been operating undetected for thirty years. A killer who wants that boy back. But the cage of bones is also a box of secrets-- secrets linking Brennan to the madman in their...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Description
xii, 192 pages ; 18 cm
Language
English
Description
"San Cristóbal was an unremarkable city--small, newly prosperous, contained by rain forest and river. But then the children arrived. No one knew where they came from: thirty-two kids, seemingly born of the jungle, speaking an unknown language. At first they scavenged, stealing food and money and absconding to the trees. But their transgressions escalated to violence, and then the city's own children began defecting to join them. Facing complete collapse,...
11) The boy
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Description
xvii, 455 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
The boy does not speak. The boy has no name. The boy, raised half-wild in the forests of southern France, sets out alone into the wilderness and the greater world beyond. Having never encountered another person aside from his mother, the boy must learn what it is to be human, to exist among people, and to live beyond simple survival. As this wild and naive child attempts to join civilization, he encounters earthquakes and car crashes, ogres, and artists,...
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Description
vii, 360 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"After being placed in foster care, Rhi is hungry for a fresh start and begins working at the Happy Valley Wildlife Preserve. While in the woods, she stumbles upon a surreal sight: a pack of wolves guarding four feral and majestic girls. After Rhi gains their trust, they reveal that they're princesses from another land, raised by a magical prophet they call Mother--and they're convinced Rhi is their lost fifth sister. Unsure what to believe, Rhi ushers...
14) Savage lands
Author
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Description
406 pages : map ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1704 the French colony of Louisiana needs wives for the struggling settlers and Elisabeth and twenty-three other girls are dispatched to satisfy the request. The skeptical bride soon falls in love with her charismatic and ruthlessly ambitious soldier-husband, Jean-Claude, a passion which is shared by an abandoned cabin boy, Auguste, who has also fallen under the spell of the dashing Jean-Claude. When in time Jean-Claude betrays them both, the two...
15) Wolf: roman
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Description
238 pages ; 22 cm
Language
Deutsch
Description
"Schrotten im Südschwarzwald, 1820: Ein verwilderter Knabe wird aufgefunden, niemand weiß, woher er kommt. Man gibt den Halbwüchsigen der Bauernfamilie Steinhauer in Obhut, wo er seine Umgebung durch seine Schonheit und Anmut sogleich fasziniert. Auch besitzt er erstaunliche Kenntnisse in der Naturheilkunde und rettet damit der jungen Maria Steinhauser das Leben. Mehr und mehr Dorfbewohner scheinen dem wundersamen Charme Gabriels zu erliegen. Als...
16) Savage Girl
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Description
402 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Explores "the dramatic events that transpire when an alluring, blazingly smart eighteen-year-old girl named Bronwyn, reputedly raised by wolves in the wilds of Nevada, is adopted in 1875 by the Delegates, an outlandishly wealthy Manhattan couple, and taken back East to be civilized and introduced into high society"--Amazon.com.
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