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Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
Tori grew up in the foster care system, a biracial child with a mentally ill mother in a volatile world. And yet, even after living in twelve different foster homes with a miniscule chance of graduating college and a great risk of being homeless, jobless, and on drugs, Tori overcame every negative stereotype and assumption that attacked her idenity.
Author
Series
Keeper of the lost cities (Graphic novels) volume 1
Keeper of the lost cities graphic novel volume Volume 1
Keeper of the lost cities graphic novel volume Volume 1
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 3
Formats
Description
Twelve-year-old Sophie Foster has never quite fit into her life. She’s skipped multiple grades and doesn’t really connect with the older kids at school, but she’s not comfortable with her family, either. The reason? Sophie’s a Telepath, someone who can read minds. No one knows her secret—at least, that’s what she thinks… But the day Sophie meets Fitz, a mysterious (and adorable) boy, she learns she’s not alone. He’s a Telepath too,...
43) The tower room
Author
Pub. Date
1998, c1990
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 6
Description
In a modern version of the Rapunzel fairy tale, Megan, who lives at a secluded girl's school where her foster mother is headmistress, falls in love for the first time with the young man her foster mother has chosen for herself.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
Jackson's mother, Kayla, can no longer cope. Having tragically lost her husband and son, Kayla is crippled with grief and unable to manage Jackson's challenging behavior. Aggressive, confrontational, and often running away, Jackson's mother puts him into foster care. He remains volatile. Cathy, his carer, encourages Jackson to talk about what has happened but he won't engage. His actions continue to test and worry everyone. Adrian, Cathy's son, fears...
Author
Pub. Date
2022
Description
Growing up in the foster care system was normal for a young girl like Dawn Marie. Often, she spent time envisioning what it would be like to have a family. But with people always coming and going, it was difficult to imagine. A skewed perspective of humanity made her wonder ifr she would ever find the family and home she yearned for.
47) The ride
Author
Pub. Date
2018
Description
Tells the story of a BMX champion who overcomes an abusive childhood through the support and care of his interracial foster family.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 3
Description
Things start looking up for Emily and Jackson when Emily's inheritance clears and Aunt Hilda becomes her legal guardian and offers to become Jackson's, as well, but Uncle Victor reappears, willing to do anything to steal Emily's fortune.
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
"The Christmas not-wish (Shelley Shepard Gray)..."When the foster parents they've cautiously grown to love discover they're expecting, orphaned Roy and Jemima Fisher, ages six and seven, are secretly devastated by the certainty they'll be given up. With Christmas around the corner, their only wish is for new foster parents as nice as Mr. and Mrs. Kurtz. Meanwhile, the Kurtzes have wishes of their own--and with faith, they all may be gifted with twice...
51) Everblaze
Author
Series
Keeper of the lost cities volume 1
Pub. Date
2014
Description
Sophie uncovers shocking secrets'and faces treacherous new enemies'in this electrifying third book in the Keeper of the Lost Cities series. Sophie Foster is ready to fight back. Her talents are getting stronger, and with the elusive Black Swan group ignoring her calls for help, she's determined to find her kidnappers'before they come after her again. But a daring mistake leaves her world teetering on the edge of war, and causes many to fear that she...
52) Kings
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
Millie Dunbar is a foster parent who looks after her many children in Los Angeles in 1992. After the verdict from the Rodney King Incident is revealed, the city quickly begins to descend into all-out chaos between its denizens and the police. Now, Millie must protect her children from the ensuing anarchy and erupting violence all while navigating the precarious waters of police violence and finding justice for her family.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 13
Description
Stella Parrish, an attractive, intelligent, alienated seventeen-year-old girl who has lived with foster parents since age eleven, when her parents died of a heroin overdose, chronicles her last two weeks of high school as she plans to commit suicide.
54) The Book of Fred
Author
Pub. Date
[2001]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 15
Description
A sheltered fifteen-year-old girl named Mary Fred Anderson is removed from her home in a fundamentalist sect and placed in foster care in a Washington, D.C. suburb, where a violent act upon her new family has an indelible impact on her, making her reexamine her long-held beliefs.
56) No child of mine
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Description
The day their colleague Daniel Martinezs foster son is kidnapped from a wedding reception homicide detectives Deborah Smith and Alex Luna find the remains of a little girl not far from the abduction site. Determined to save the boy and solve the murder the team travels from San Antonios drug-dealing gang territory to the back roads of rural America exposing the cracks in an overburdened understaffed foster care system -- Publisher.
Author
Pub. Date
p2011
Description
In The Rider of Lost Creek, Lance Kilkenny is the fastest gun in the West, but once the gunfight is over, he disappears. Most folks don't even know what he looks like. Some time back, Mort Davis saved Kilkenny's life. Now Davis needs Kilkenny's help with a pair of feuding ranchers, both of them claiming his property and water rights. In The Trail to Peach Meadow Canyon, Mike Bastian was an orphan taken in by the outlaw Ben Curry and raised to one...
Author
Pub. Date
p2011
Description
Jude Farraday is a happily married, stay-at-home mom who puts everyone's needs above her own. Her twins, Mia and Zach, are bright and happy teenagers. When Lexi Baill enters their lives, no one is more supportive than Jude. A former foster child with a dark past, Lexi quickly becomes Mia's best friend. Then Zach falls in love with Lexi and the three become inseparable. But senior year of high school brings unexpected dangers and one night, Jude's...