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81) Fast break
Author
Language
English
Description
Since his mother's death, Jayson, twelve, has focused on basketball and surviving but he is found out and placed with an affluent foster family of a different race, and must learn to accept many changes, including facing his former teammates in a championship game.
Author
Publisher
HarperElement
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
Damaged is the true story of the relationship between Jodie and her foster mother, Cathy Glass. Jodie, a troubled eight-year old, was the most disturbed and abused child Glass had ever taken care of. In Cathy, Jodie found the one adult worthy of her trust, one who could help her begin the process of recovery.
84) Foster Mary
Author
Publisher
McGraw-Hill
Pub. Date
c1979
Language
English
Description
Mary's dreams for her foster children include a warm house, regular meals and no more traveling.
Author
Publisher
Puffin Books
Pub. Date
1988, c1982
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Stephen, his new foster brother, and his friends are sentenced to help out in an old age home for the summer after Stephen is caught writing graffiti on a train.
Fourteen-year-old Stephen, his new foster brother, his friends are sentenced to help out at an old age home for the summer after Stephen is caught writing graffiti on a train.
Author
Series
Thoroughbred volume 13
Publisher
HarperPaperbacks
Pub. Date
[1995], c1995
Language
English
Description
Cindy Blake wants to stay at Whitebrook Farm forever. After being shuffled from one foster home to another, she's finally found a place where people love her and, best of all, where she's surrounded by horses. Then Lavinia Townsend accuses Cindy of stealing. The authorities want to send her to another home, and even her new foster parents seem to doubt her. Cindy's troubles multiply when she discovers a mistreated horse and hides him. If they find...
90) 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
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...
94) Mine for a year
Author
Publisher
Coward
Pub. Date
1984
Language
English
Description
Describes a foster child's year spent socializing a puppy destined to be trained as a guide dog for a blind person.
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
When fifteen-year-old Cathy decides to carpool from Norwalk to tony Greenwich, Connecticut, to study Latin in summer school, she does not expect the shocking events that occurred five years earlier to suddenly come flooding back into her relatively settled life.
98) The wrong girl
Author
Series
Publisher
Forge Books
Language
English
Description
"Award-winning and Boston Globe bestselling author Hank Phillippi Ryan presents a spine-chilling, heart-wrenching suspense novel that explores a terrifying scenario striking at the heart of every family. Does a respected adoption agency have a frightening secret? 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...
99) 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.
100) Free Verse
Author
Language
English
Description
When her brother dies in a fire, Sasha Harless has no one left, and nowhere to turn. After her father died in the mines and her mother ran off, he was her last caretaker. They'd always dreamed of leaving Caboose, West Virginia together someday, but instead she's in foster care, feeling more stuck and broken than ever. But then hen Sasha discovers family she didn't know she had, and she finally has something to hold onto, especially sweet little Mikey,...
