"Sara Martinez is facing years in the juvenile detention system for hacking into the foster care computer system to prove that her foster parents are crooks. But then she gets a second chance when a mysterious man offers her a chance to join a group of MI6 affiliated spies"--

Provides insight into the foster care system for new and experienced foster parents and caseworkers. Chapters begin with stories from foster parents or others, and they cover foster care and children; the history of foster care in the US and around the world; training; placement; mental health, school, trust, behavior, and other problems foster children face; creating rules and expectations; child development; school; working with caseworkers; birth...

Sent to a home for chronic offenders, fifteen-year-old foster child Anais considers her bleak life in the hands of untrustworthy adults before discovering herself within an ad hoc family that helps her take first steps toward personal strength.

A Los Angeles girl whose mother goes to jail is taken in hand by the city's foster-care program and the novel describes her experience in a series of homes, each a new adventure. A first novel.

When Elliot's parents do not know how to take care of him, a social worker takes him to live with a foster family, which begins a series of changes that leave Elliot worried and anxious, until he finds a forever home and a forever family.

As an unloved foster child on a farm in rural Iceland, Olaf Karason has only one consolation: the belief that one day he will be a great poet. The indifference and contempt of most of the people around him only reinforce his sense of destiny, for in Iceland poets are as likely to be scorned as they are to be revered. Over the years, Olaf comes to lead the paradigmatic poet's life of poverty, loneliness, ruinous love affairs, and sexual scandal. But...

"In the tradition of The Promise of a Pencil and Kisses from Katie comes an inspirational memoir by the founder of Comfort Cases about his turbulent childhood in the foster care system and the countless obstacles and discrimination he endured in adopting his four children"--

Unable to remember her life before foster care, a teen anxious to rescue her newborn from an oppressive matriarch studies the properties of a powerful but addictive plant behind the foster family's business.

Inspired by the filmmaker's family history, Fabien Gorgeart's heartfelt, heartbreaking second feature focuses on an excruciating period in one family's life. Anna, her husband, and their two young sons are told they must hand six-year-old Simon, the foster child they've raised since he was eighteen months old, over to his 'real' father. Powerless before a social services system that fails to understand the powerful emotional ties that inevitably form...