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"Miss Janie is at the end of a long and full life, but she has no intention of crossing that finish line until she's found her girls . . . It's been ten years since Teresa and Kayla shook off the dust of Birthright, Texas, went their separate ways, and never looked back. Apart from their foster mom, Miss Janie, they don't have many fond memories of their hometown. Or of each other. Still, neither can forget the kind woman who opened her home and heart...
Author
Series
Keeper of the lost cities volume 6
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
As the battles continue, Sophie must uncover the truth about the Lost Cities' past.
24) Foster families
Author
Series
Publisher
ReferencePoint Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"On any single day, there are nearly 428,000 children in foster care in the United States. Foster parents open their homes to these children and take care of them. Together, they become a foster family. This book presents a real-world look at how American families are changing and helps teen readers gain an understanding of what it is like to be part of a foster family."--Amazon.com.
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Series
Publisher
Love Inspired
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Foster mom Rae Girard’s determined to make her children’s first Christmas with her the best they’ve ever had—and she’s shocked when the town scrooge, attorney Cole Heinsohn, offers to pitch in. Rae’s young charges have melted Cole’s heart, and he wants them to experience the special day he never had. But when disaster strikes, an imperfect holiday might bring them something better: a family."--Back...
Author
Publisher
Starry Night Publishing.Com
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
This book is not solely written to discuss the plight of the underrepresented, but rather to assist former and current foster children and their foster parents to understand how to reach for and achieve success.This book will provide tools to overcome challenges as well as contribute to the knowledge foster children have about the great opportunities they have been afforded by simply being foster children. Written by a former foster child who now...
Author
Publisher
Credo House Publishers
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Foster parents face a unique set of circumstances and experience a wide array of emotions that few can relate to. Their journey is one of equal parts beauty and brokenness, joy and heartache, excitement and exhaustion. There is no textbook on how to be a foster parent, no formula, no simple three-step guide. But there is hope--in God's capacity to bring great beauty out of tragic brokenness. This is the gospel--the lens through which you can filter...
Author
Series
Keeper of the lost cities volume 3
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Sophie's talents are getting stronger and, with the elusive Black Swan group ignoring her calls for help, she's determined to find her kidnappers. But a daring mistake pushes her world to the edge of war, and soon she's exposed a major conspiracy that could threaten all she loves.
30) Hope's boy
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Relates the author's harrowing family circumstances that led to his placement in the equally daunting foster-care system, and describes how he beat the odds through high academic achievement.
Author
Publisher
Bookouture, an imprint of Storyfire Ltd
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"In their holiday home, a stone's throw from the beach, Elizabeth dials the police with trembling hands. 'My little boy, he's missing.' Elizabeth is Joe's foster mother, but she loves him like her own. The five-year-old, who adores superheroes and watching the birds outside, is the child she has dreamed of. As she looks into the garden, where he was playing just moments ago, her heart feels like it has been ripped from her chest. She was meant to...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
50 First Dates : Henry Roth falls in love with Lucy who has short-term memory loss.
Big Daddy : Thirty-two-year-old Sonny Koufax has spent his whole life avoiding responsibility. When his girlfriend dumps him for an older man, he adopts five-year-old Julian to impress her. She's not impressed and Julian cannot be returned.
Author
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
[2023]-
Language
English
Description
A graphic novel adaptation of the book, in which twelve-year-old Sophie discovers the abilities that have always caused her to stand out are because she is actually an elf and, after she is brought to Eternalia where she can hone her skills, Sophie learns she harbors certain secrets that others would kill to learn.
Author
Publisher
HarperElement
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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 behaviour. 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...
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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...
38) Snow foal
Author
Publisher
Peachtree
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
When eleven-year-old Addie goes to stay with a foster-care family on a remote Exmoor farm in the midst of a very cold winter, she is full of hurt, anger and a deep mistrust of everyone around her. Until one day, when she rescues a tiny wild foal from the moorland snow and Addie discovers that perhaps she's not so alone after all. And as adventure and unexpected friendship blossom, Addie is determined that both of them will know what is to be home...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c1994
Language
English
Description
The author writes about raising children late in life. "Liz Carpenter, a widow with grown children living . . . in Austin, Tex., agreed to her 79-year-old brother Tom's . . . deathbed request to rear his youngest children. It was 1991. . . . He had cared for the children, ages 14 and 11, and their 16-year-old sister since he was divorced by their mother. Now, with death requiring a shift of custody, the mother felt unequal to the task. . . . All three...
Publisher
Lions Gate Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
In addition to being saddled with an unruly foster teen, Madea has two troubled nieces to deal with. Lisa is engaged to an abusive and controlling investment banker and Vanessa is finding it difficult to open herself to the affection of a bus driver/artist Frankie because of childhood abuse. Wreaking havoc on both of the girls's lives is their mother Victoria.