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Author
Publisher
Bookouture
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Mother-of-two, Ally has always dreamed of fostering--it feels like her chance to give back when she has been so lucky in life. But when seven-year-old Dylan joins her family in their big, spacious, suburban home, Ally isn't prepared for the responsibility--or for the love--she will feel for him. Life with Dylan isn't easy though. He refuses to speak and Ally finds herself only able to guess what his needs might be. And, as her family feels the impact...
2) Ginny Moon
Author
Publisher
Park Row Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Meet Ginny Moon. She's mostly your average teenager--she plays flute in the high school band, has weekly basketball practice, and reads Robert Frost poems in English class. But Ginny is autistic ... After being traumatically taken from her abusive birth mother and moved around to different homes, Ginny has finally found her 'forever home'--a safe place with parents who will love and nurture her. This is exactly what all foster kids are hoping for,...
Author
Publisher
Hogarth
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Like everyone else in the Panopticon, 15-year-old Anais Hendricks has been in and out of foster care practically since birth. "[B]orn in a nuthouse to nobody that was ever seen again," she had her only successful foster placement with a prostitute later stabbed to death (Anais found the body). She's been sent to this facility, where the inmates are under constant surveillance, because she had a bad history with a policewoman who has been bludgeoned...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Raised on hip-hop and foster care, defiant city kid Ricky gets a fresh start in the New Zealand countryside. He quickly finds himself at home with his new foster family: the loving Aunt Bella, the cantankerous Uncle Hec, and dog Tupac. When a tragedy strikes that threatens to ship Ricky to another home, both he and Hec go on the run in the bush. As a national manhunt ensues, the newly branded outlaws must face their options.
6) Otto and Pio
Author
Publisher
Princeton Architectural Press
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
Otto the squirrel reluctantly becomes a foster parent when a strange, furry creature hatches outside his home, saying nothing but "Pio" and growing very, very quickly
9) You're next
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Mike Wingate, left at a playground at the age of four and raised in foster care, grows up to marry Annabel, the woman of his dreams, with whom he has an eight-year-old daughter, Kat, and with his construction business taking off it looks as though he has created the life he always wanted, but problems arise when menacing characters from a past he does not even remember begin threatening Mike and his family, and with the police unwilling to help, he...
Author
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
"Alex has a set of Enchanted cards. When she flutters her fingers above them, something magical happens: the cards come alive and create moving pictures of what is now and what is yet to come. But Enchantment is illegal in the city of Luma, and those who practice it are imprisoned forever in the Vaults--dark dungeons deep below the city. When Alex is betrayed by her foster sister Zerra, she knows she is in great danger. With the help of her little...
12) Flight: a novel
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
Follows the life of a troubled teen as he is transported back and forth in time in a search for his true identity.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Rosalie Iron Wing has grown up in the woods with her father, Ray, a former science teacher who tells her stories of plants, of the stars, of the origins of the Dakota people. Until, one morning, Ray doesn't return from checking his traps. Told she has no family, Rosalie is sent to live with a foster family in nearby Mankato - where the reserved, bookish teenager meets rebellious Gaby Makespeace, in a friendship that transcends the damaged legacies...
15) What I carry
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Growing up in foster care, Muir has lived in many houses. And if she's learned one thing, it is to Pack. Light. Carry only what fits in a suitcase. Toothbrush? Yes. Socks? Yes. Emotional attachment to friends? foster families? a boyfriend? Nope! There's no room for any additional baggage. Muir has just one year left before she ages out of the system. One year before she's free. One year to avoid anything--or anyone--that could get in her way. Then...
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Casablanca
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
What happens when falling in love makes everyone around you go bonkers? Amber Nicholls, Lachlan McCarthy, and Raffaele Wright grew up as foster kids in Teddy Penhaligon's seaside home and have forged a bond tighter than glue. When they get the news that Teddy's met someone while on vacation, they'll do anything to protect him from a presumed gold-digger--even if she seems lovely and charming. Is she fooling them all? Or is she spurring them to uncover...
17) City spies
Author
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
"Sara Martinez is facing years in the juvenile detention system for hacking into the foster care computer system to prove that her foster parents are crooks. But then she gets a second chance when a mysterious man offers her a chance to join a group of MI6 affiliated spies"--Provided by the publisher.
18) Sky's story
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Louise is called up again to step in and help young Sky. From the bestselling author of the foster care series - Thrown Away Children, comes a new challenge and a precious life to save.
19) The rabbit hutch
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Formats
Description
"A debut novel about an odd assortment of residents living in a crumbling apartment building in the post-industrial Midwest"--
The automobile industry has abandoned Vacca Vale, Indiana, leaving the residents behind, too. In a run-down apartment building on the edge of town, commonly known as the Rabbit Hutch, a number of people now reside quietly, looking for ways to live in a dying city. Apartment C2 is lonely and detached. C6 is aging and stuck....
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