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Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Willow and Mason, two teens who are unceremoniously dragged to Salem, Massachusetts for the summer, meet and help each other figure out their places in the world.
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...
143) Watch over me
Author
Publisher
Dutton Books
Pub. Date
2020.
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.
144) Little bits of sky
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Siblings Ira and Zac know the foster system inside and out, but it's only when they are sent to Skilly House, a children's care home in London, that their lives truly start to change"--
145) 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.
146) Cliff-hanger
Author
Series
Mysteries in our national parks volume 3
Publisher
National Geographic Society
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Jack and his younger sister visit Mesa Verde National Park, where they delve into the park's history while gradually uncovering the mysterious past of their family's teenage foster child Lucky.
148) The big picture
Author
Series
A Katie Parker Production volume act 3
Publisher
NavPress
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Dumped by her possible boyfriend at a drive-in theater, Katie returns home to find that her mother, a former convict and current addict, wants to take her away from her foster family, friends, and church, and Katie must make important decisions as she considers what family and home really mean.
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.
150) Sara lost and found
Author
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
When their mother abandons them and their father ends up in jail again, ten-year-old Sara and her mentally troubled sister are thrust back into the foster care system.
151) Garbage bag girl
Author
Publisher
illustrations
Pub. Date
21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"This book is an honest and vulnerable first-person account of Celeste Edmunds a young woman who was raised by drug addict parents and, at a young age, learned to survive and protect her siblings among rapists and drug dealers. Eventually the state separated the family and Celeste was adopted, alone, into a dysfunctional, fractured home where she was treated, by a sadistic and manipulating mother, as an unwanted outsider. Contemplating taking her...
152) Hotel for dogs
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Foster children Andi and Bruce have been placed with a flaky couple who care more for their aspiring rock careers than their charges. Their mischievous tendencies repeatedly get them into trouble. After a close call with the local pound, the kids end up searching for Friday, their secretly adopted dog, in an abandoned old hotel where they find several other stray dogs seeking shelter. They, along with three other local kids, begin caring for the strays....
153) 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.
154) A forever family
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
1992
Language
English
Description
Eight-year-old Jennifer Jordan-Wong describes her adoption by a family after four years of living as a foster child with many different families.
Author
Series
David Pelzer trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Health Communications
Pub. Date
c1995
Language
English
Description
David Pelzer, victim of one of the worst child abuse cases in the history of California, tells the story of how he survived his mother's brutality and triumphed over his past.
Author
Publisher
Roadworthy Press
Pub. Date
�2012
Language
English
Description
"Riders on the Orphan Train is a novel about a little-known piece of American history. Bewteen 1854 and 1929, over 250,000 orphans and 'surrendered' children were 'placed out' across the country. They started their journey in New York and were given away in train stations in every state in the continental United States. This is the story of two children from very different backgrounds, Ezra Duval and Elizabeth Farrell, who find themselves on the same...