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81) Out of the deep
Author
Series
Mysteries in our national parks volume 10
Publisher
National Geographic Society
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
Jack, Ashley, and their unreliable new foster sister set out to solve the mystery of why whales are beaching themselves at Acadia National Park.
82) Leonardo's hand
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
Finally in a foster home with a caring family, Nard, a thirteen-year-old orphan with only one hand, invents a human-powered flying machine with the assistance of the 500-year-old hand of Leonardo da Vinci.
83) Running scared
Author
Series
Mysteries in our national parks volume 11
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
While lost in a tunnel at Carlsbad Cavern, thirteen-year-old Jack, eleven-year-old Ashley, and their eight-year-old foster brother, Sam, think bats and darkness are their worst problems, until they stumble across thieves.
84) Dangling
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Ben recalls his relationship with his unusual friend Ring, who walked into the river and disappeared one day.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Jocelyn follows clues apparently from her dead twin, Jack, in and around Seale House, the terrifying foster home where they once lived, and with help from childhood friend Noah she begins to uncover the truth about Jack's death and the company that employed him and Noah.
86) Returnable girl
Author
Publisher
Marshall Cavendish
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
Friendship with an outcast classmate and memories of her mother's desertion interfere with the relationship thirteen-year-old Ronnie tries to establish with her new foster mother.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2010, c2009
Language
English
Description
Very strange occurrences have long surrounded fourteen-year-old Bran, who learns of his link to a curse created by his murdered mother and strives to make things right, hindered by the ban on magic in the city of Dunce and pursued by his mother's former masters.
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Ten-year-old Aniyah and her little brother Noah find themselves living in foster care after the sudden disappearance of their mom, but with her life in disarray, Aniyah knows just one thing for sure--her mom is not gone forever.
90) Onion tears
Author
Publisher
Orchard Books
Pub. Date
1991
Language
English
Description
A little Vietnamese girl tries to come to terms with her grief over the loss of her family and her new life with the Australian family with whom she lives.
91) Ball don't lie
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
2005
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.
92) Oblivion
Author
Publisher
Egmont USA
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Callie Knowles fights her compulsion to write constantly, even on herself, as she struggles to cope with foster care, her mother's life in a mental institution, and her belief that she killed her father, a minister, who has been missing for a year.
Author
Publisher
Sapelo Publishing
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"When Foster teen Willa Elliot turns eighteen, she's pregnant and out of options. A DNA test gives her enough info to trace her biological family. But her dreams of a better life crash when her five-year-old stepsister drowns, and Willa is charged with manslaughter. Successful Savannah businesswoman Ivy Abernathy's capacity for love and forgiveness is put to the ultimate test when she's forced to set aside her grief for her younger daughter in order...
Author
Series
Keystone Stables volume 2
Publisher
Zonderkidz
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
The love of her foster parents, her friend Morgan, and her own devotion to the horses and dogs at Keystone Stables help Skye become a Christian and to, in turn, find a way to help her troubled friend Sooze.
95) Ghost horses
Author
Publisher
National Geographic Society
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
Visiting Zion National Park with his family, twelve-year-old Jack encounters two mysteries, the strange behavior of a band of wild mustangs and the possibly sinister actions of his new foster brother, a Shoshone boy.
96) Ball don't lie
Author
Publisher
Random House, Incorporated
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Sticky lives to play basketball at school and Lincoln Rec Center in Los Angeles and is headed for the pros, but he is unaware of the many dangers - including his own past - that threaten his dream.
Author
Publisher
HarperTempest
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
Troubled teen Lucy Pitt struggles to fit in as a new tenant at a last-chance foster home. The guy looked at me with a stare that would have frozen antifreeze. "You the new groupie, huh?" "Yeah," I said. "So?" "So no one wants you here. Why don't you go back where you came from?" I can't go back, I wanted to say. That was the thing about living in a group home. There was nowhere for me to go but forward. Brent Hartinger's second novel, a portrait of...
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Presents a young reader's version of a story in which Molly, close to aging out of the foster care system, takes a position helping an elderly woman named Vivian and discovers that they are more alike than different as she helps Vivian solve a mystery from her past.
100) Happily after all
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
1990
Language
English
Description
When her father dies, ten-year-old Rebecca is sent to live with the mother she's been brought up to believe had abandoned her and, through a growing relationship with a troubled foster child, begins to accept her mother. . .
When her father dies, ten-year-old Rebecca is sent to live with the mother she's been brought up to believe had abandoned her and, through a growing relationship with a troubled foster child, begins to accept her mother and some...