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41) Runaway twin
Author
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Sunny, accompanied by a stray dog, takes advantage of a windfall to travel from her Nebraska foster home to Enumclaw, Washington, to find the twin sister from whom she was separated at age three.
44) Three more words
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Ashley Rhodes-Courter spent a harrowing nine years of her life in fourteen different foster homes. Her memoir, Three Little Words, captivated audiences everywhere and went on to become a New York Times bestseller. Now Ashley reveals the nuances of life after foster care: College and its assorted hijinks, including meeting "the one." Marriage, which began with a beautiful wedding on a boat that was almost hijacked (literally) by some biological family...
45) Ball don't lie
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Sticky lives for basketball and plays at school and at the Lincoln Rec Center in Los Angeles but he is unaware of the many dangers--including his own past--that threaten his dream of playing professionally.
46) Just Lucky
Author
Publisher
Second Story Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Lucky loves her grandparents, and they are all the family she really has. True, her grandma forgets things... like turning off the stove, or Lucky's name. But her grandpa takes such good care of them that Lucky doesn't realize how bad things are. That is until he's gone. When her grandma accidentally sets the kitchen on fire, Lucky can't hide what's happening any longer, and she is sent into foster care. She quickly learns that some foster families...
47) The kid: a novel
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
After his mother dies when he is nine years old, Abdul Jones finds his way toward adulthood by overcoming the legacy of physical and sexual abuse he carries with him from his time in a foster home and at a boys' Catholic school.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
"Willow has never felt like she belonged anywhere and is convinced that the only way to find a true home is to travel the world. But her plans to act on her dream are put on hold when her aloof and often absent mother drags Willow to Salem, Massachusetts, to wrap up the affairs of an aunt Willow didn’t even know she had. An aunt who may or may not have been a witch. There, she meets Mason, a loner who’s always felt out of place and has been in...
Author
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
When Loretta surrenders her young girls to the county and then disappears, she becomes one more missing Native woman in Indian Country's long devastating history of loss. But she is also a daughter of the Mozhay Point Reservation in northern Minnesota and the mother of Azure and Rain, ages 3 and 4, and her absence haunts all the lives she has touched--and all the stories they tell in this novel. In the Night of Memory returns to the fictional reservation...
51) The wrong girl
Author
Series
Jane Ryland mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Forge Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Tipped off by a determined ex-colleague on a desperate quest to find her birth mother, Boston newspaper reporter Jane Ryland begins to suspect that the agency is engaging in the ultimate betrayal--reuniting birth parents with the wrong children.For detective Jake Brogan and his partner, a young woman's brutal murder seems a sadly predictable case of domestic violence, one that results in two toddlers being shuttled into the foster care system. Then...
52) Watch over me
Author
Publisher
Dutton Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
A newly graduated Mila emerges from foster care to accept a job on an isolated Northern California Coast farm where she confronts haunting memories and the traumas of her fellow residents.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
"Celebrate L. M. Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables with this vibrant, contemporary graphic novel retelling! When Marilla and Matthew Cuthbert decide to foster a teenage girl for the first time, their lives are changed forever. Their redheaded foster daughter, Anne Shirley, is in search of an exciting life and has decided that West Philly is where she's going to find it. Armed with a big personality and unstoppable creativity, Anne takes her new home...
54) Locomotion
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
In a series of poems, eleven-year-old Lonnie writes about his life, after the death of his parents, separated from his younger sister, living in a foster home, and finding his poetic voice at school.
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Lucy, a spirited French-Ojibwe orphan, is sent to the stormy waters of Lake Superior to live with a mysterious family of lighthouse-keepers -- and, she hopes, to find the legendary necklace her father spent his life seeking."--
Author
Series
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
"Brian has always been anxious, whether at home or in class or on the basketball court. His dad tries to get him to stand up for himself, and his mom helps as much as she can, but after he and his brother are placed into foster care, Brian starts having panic attacks. And he doesn't know if things will ever be 'normal' again ... Ezra's always been popular. He's friends with most of the kids on his basketball team--even Brian, who usually keeps to...
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Rynn was born with a hole in her heart--literally. Although it was fixed long ago, she still feels an emptiness there when she wonders about her birth family. As her relationship with her adoptive mother fractures, Rynn finally decides she needs to know more about the rest of her family. Her search starts with a name, the only thing she has from her birth mother, and she quickly learns that she has a younger sister living in foster care in a nearby...
59) No boyz allowed
Author
Publisher
Dafina Books
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Gem and her little brother navigate their way through New Jersey's foster care system while Gem tries to hide her attraction to new boy Ny'eem from her friends, who have declared that no boys can come between their friendship.
Author
Publisher
HarperElement
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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, for a short while. Taylor tries desperately not to fit in, to be the tough young teen that she has had to become, making it clear that she cares about nothing and no-one, while Reece is just desperate for someone to love him. Rosie finds herself battling...
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