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The Pinballs
You can't always decide where life will take you--especially when you're a kid. Carlie knows she's got no say in what happens to her. Stuck in a foster home with …
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The Great Gilly Hopkins
Eleven-year-old Gilly has been stuck in more foster families than she can remember, and she's disliked them all. She has a county-wide reputation for being brash, brilliant, and completely unmanageable. …
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The Last Chance Texaco
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 …
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Pictures of Hollis Woods
This Newbery Honor book about a girl who has never known family fighting for her first true home “will leave readers . . . satisfied” (Kirkus Reviews). Hollis Woods is …
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Anna Casey's Place in the World
For use in schools and libraries only. Anna, a twelve-year-old girl with strong survival instincts, tries to adjust to life in a Florida foster home in a strange neighborhood with …
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The Sorta Sisters
In Florida, Anna Casey lives with what she hopes is the last in a long line of foster mothers, and Mica Delano lives with her father on their small boat, …
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Grover G. Graham and Me
With compassion and wry humor, this moving story follows an 11-year-old boy'sjourney through the foster care system and describes how he forms a bond withthe baby boy in his current …
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The Very Worst Thing
David has never had a permanent home or a real friend, but when he decides to try to hatch an owl egg with the help of a classmate, his life …
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Finding Stinko
Having spent his life trying to escape the foster care system, eventually becoming mute to keep out of trouble, twelve-year-old Newboy finally hits the streets, where a discarded ventriloquist's dummy …
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I'll Sing You One-o
Twelve-year-old Gemma doesn’t know where to turn. She is being adopted by relatives she didn’t know she had. The foster family she has loved all her life is breaking up. …
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The Story of Tracy Beaker
First published: Great Britain: Doubleday, 1991.
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Gossamer
While learning to bestow dreams, a young dream giver tries to save an eight-year-old boy from the effects of both his abusive past and the nightmares inflicted on him by …
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The Boy From the Basement
For Charlie, the cold, dark basement is home. Father has kept him locked in there as punishment. Charlie doesn’t intend to leave, but when he is accidentally thrust outside, he …
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Locomotion
In a series of poems, eleven-year-old Lonnie writes about his life, after the death of his parents, separated from his younger sister, living in a foster home, and finding his …
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Peace, Locomotion
Through letters to his little sister, who is living in a different foster home, sixth-grader Lonnie, also known as "Locomotion," keeps a record of their lives while they are apart, …
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Adam and Eve and Pinch-Me
“If you don’t want your heart broken, don’t let on you have one.” Sara Moone is an expert on broken hearts. She is a foster child who has been bounced …
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The Mailbox
For readers of Unbroken and Flags of Our Fathers, The Mailbox is a sympathetic portrayal of veterans and the burdens they carry throughout their lives. Vernon Culligan had been dead …
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Holding Up the Earth
Fourteen-year-old Hope visits her new foster mother's Nebraska farm and, through old letters, a diary, and stories, gets a vivid picture of the past in the voices of four girls …
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The Handle and the Key
Dan is a shy foster child who has been moved from home to home, until the Know family adopts him permanently. Like a vivid assortment of snapshots, the short chapters …
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Parents Wanted
When 12-year-old Andy meets Laurie and Jeff at an adoption party, he has already been in eight foster homes. Andy s alcoholic mother has given him up to the state …
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Ruby Holler
"You are now entering Ruby Holler, the one and only Ruby Holler! Your lives are never going to be the same—" "Trouble twins" Dallas and Florida are orphans who have …
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Where I'd Like To Be
A ghost saved twelve-year-old Maddie's life when she was an infant, her Granny Lane claims, so Maddie must always remember that she is special. But it's hard to feel special …
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The Road to Paris
Inconsolable at being separated from her older brother, eight-year-old Paris is apprehensive about her new foster family but just as she learns to trust them, she faces a life-changing decision.
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Chance and the Butterfly
Having problems with all school subjects except science, Chance gets excited about going to school when a box of caterpillars and supplies needed to raise them to butterflies arrives in …
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Benni & Victoria
In residential placement as a result of his mother's substance abuse, ten-year-old Benni travels back in time to befriend a nine-year-old girl during a diphtheria epidemic.
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You're Dead, David Borelli
David has always known wealth and comfort, but after his mother dies and his father absconds with company funds, David is sent to a foster home, an inner-city school, and …
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When the Road Ends
Sent to spend the summer in the country, three foster children and an older woman recovering from a serious accident are abandoned by their slovenly caretaker and must try to …
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Returnable Girl
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.
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Onion Tears
Nam-Huong is miserable living in a new country without her beloved family. Then why can't she cry? Vietnamese Nam-Huong wants to adjust to her new life in Australia, but she …
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Team Picture
Trying to hold onto the newfound stability of his life in a foster home, thirteen-year-old David worries about the growing moodiness of his guardian Paul and the fluctuating fortunes of …
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Dancing Through the Snow
The story of an abandoned dog helping an abandoned girl open her heart.
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The Monster in Me
The Monster in Me, is the story of a troubled thirteen-year-old girl named Natalie Wills. Natalie's mother has just gone into a drug rehab program, so Natalie is placed in …
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Nightwalkers
After a school trip to the Washington zoo, ten-year-old James becomes so attached to Daisy, an orphaned African elephant, that he jeopardizes his placement in a new foster home to …
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Heads, I Win
In this sequel to "Kevin Corbett Eats Flies," Bailey runs for class president hoping that popularity will secure her place in her current foster home.