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Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
"Experienced foster carer Rosie Lewis is used to looking after children from difficult home situations, but she finds herself struggling when she agrees to take in Taylor and her younger brother Reece. Taylor tries her hardest not to fit in, making it clear that she cares about nothing and no one, but Reece is just desperate for someone to love him. Rosie finds herself battling an unknown terror, as social media and the internet become a means to...
Author
Series
Outlaws of time volume 1
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
Description
"Sam Miracles life is made up of dreams, dreams where hes a courageous, legendary hero instead of a foster kid with two bad arms that can barely move. Sometimes these dreams feel so real, they seem like forgotten memories. And sometimes they make him believe that his arms might come alive again. But Sam is about to discover that the world he knows and the world he imagines are separated by only one thing: time. And that separation is only an illusion....
Author
Series
Blessings volume 11
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
As Bernadine Brown and Malachi July prepare for their upcoming wedding, Amari's birth mother comes to Henry Adams, Kansas, with the hope of spending Christmas with her son.
Author
Series
Blessings volume 4
Pub. Date
2012.
Description
Anyone worried that living in a small town could be boring certainly hasn't lived in Henry Adams, Kansas. From the wealthy divorcee who saved this historic town founded by freed slaves to the romantic entanglements that have set tongues wagging and hearts fluttering (and everything in between), there's plenty to keep the lovably eccentric townsfolk busy. Preston Miles is happy living with his foster parents, but an e-mail from his maternal grandmother...
85) Losers bracket
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 8
Description
When it comes to family, Annie is in the losers bracket. While her foster parents are great (mostly), her birth family would not have been her first pick. And no matter how many times Annie tries to write them out of her life, she always gets sucked back into their drama. Love is like that. But when a family argument breaks out at Annie's swim meet and her nephew goes missing, Annie might be the only one who can get him back. With help from her friends,...
87) Now you say yes
Author
Pub. Date
c2021.
Description
"When her adoptive mother dies, fifteen-year-old Mari and is desperate to avoid being caught up in the foster system. Again. And to complicate matters, she is now the only one who can take care of her super-smart and on-the-spectrum nine-year-old stepbrother, Conor. Is there anyone Mari can trust to help them? Certainly not her mother’s current boyfriend, Dennis. Not the doctors or her teachers, who would be obliged to call in social services. So...
88) The kill club
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
"Their foster mother, Carol, has always been fanatical, but with Jazz grown up and out of the house, Carol takes a dangerous turn that threatens thirteen-year-old Joaquin's life. Over and over, child services fails to intervene, and Joaquin is running out of time. Then Jazz gets a blocked call from someone offering a solution. There are others like her--people the law has failed. They've formed an underground network of "helpers," each agreeing to...
90) The run: #1
Author
Series
The Run Productions volume 1
Pub. Date
2014
Description
The Run follows Lindsey, where life as a foster child proves to be hard enough. But when Lindsey is forced to move out of her foster home and live illegally, her already complicated world is stirred by Nathaniel - an obnoxious, pushy, and conceited boy who can't seem to leave Lindsey alone. The Run showcases a crazy journey of adventure, a hate that turns into the most unexpected love, and reveals that no one saw coming.
Author
Pub. Date
[2003]
Description
This powerful and haunting memoir details the years Paula McLain and her two sisters spent as foster children after being abandoned by both parents in California in the early 1970s. As wards of the State, the sisters spent the next fourteen years moving from foster home to foster home. The dislocations, confusions, and odd pleasures of an unrooted life form the basis of one of the most compelling memoirs in recent years-a book in the tradition of...
92) A list of cages
Author
Pub. Date
2017
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 10
Description
When Adam Blake lands the best elective ever in his senior year, serving as an aide to the school psychologist, he thinks he's got it made. Sure, it means a lot of sitting around, which isn't easy for a guy with ADHD, but he can't complain, since he gets to spend the period texting all his friends. Then the doctor asks him to track down the troubled freshman who keeps dodging her, and Adam discovers that the boy is Julian -- the foster brother he...
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
Born in a prison and removed from his drug-dependent mother, rejection is all that 7-year-old Alex knows. When Cathy is asked to foster little Alex, aged 7, her immediate reaction is: Why cant he stay with his present carers for the last month? Hes already had many moves since coming into care as a toddler and hell only be with her a short while before he goes to live with his permanent adoptive family. But the present carers are expecting a baby...
Author
Pub. Date
c2012
Description
"After making a new life for herself and her infant daughter in Rose Mountain, widow Maggie Bennett thought they were safe. Getting caught in the middle of a bank robbery changes everything--and introduces her to policeman Reese Kirkpatrick. He seems to be everything her abusive late husband wasn't ... just the man she needs to help her through the growing list of sinister occurrences. But Reese has his own baggage--and when a shocking betrayal puts...
Author
Description
"Maddy Adriana knows that magic is real. All her life, her heart has pulled her toward things too perfect to be ordinary, things no one else can see. And then there's the bracelet she's worn since she was a baby; a bracelet that grows as she grows and doesn't come off. Knowing that magic exists has made it a little easier to be a foster kid bounced between homes. Then, one day, Maddy feels a ... tug. It leads her to Il Circo delle Strade, the magical...
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Formats
Description
"From the author of the international bestseller The Sweetness of Forgetting, named one of the Best Books of Summer 2012 by Marie Claire magazine, comes a captivating novel about the struggle to overcome the past when our memories refuse to be forgotten. In this richly told story where Sliding Doors meets P.S. I Love You, Kristin Harmel weaves a heart-wrenching tale that asks: what does it take to move forward in life without forgetting the past?...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
"Civilized societies attempt to take care of the most vulnerable among them. This includes children who have been abused, neglected, or abandoned--who, as a result, may end up in foster care. Readers will come to a more comprehensive understanding of the types of foster care, the benefits and potential pitfalls of such care, and how to navigate within a system designed to safeguard the individuals it serves. Helpful elements that augment the text...
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