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1) Foster
Author
Description
It is a hot summer in rural Ireland. A child is taken by her father to live with relatives on a farm, not knowing when or if she will be brought home again. In the Kinsellas' house, she finds an affection and warmth she has not known and slowly, in their care, begins to blossom. But there is something unspoken in this new household-where everything is so well tended to-and this summer must soon come to an end.
Author
Publisher
Crowell
Pub. Date
c1978
Physical Desc
212, 11, 14 pages ; 22 cm
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Description
Finding herself in the latest and most intolerable of a string of foster homes, an eleven-year-old who prides herself on her cleverness and unmanageability tries gamely to provoke the adults around her.
An eleven-year-old foster child tries to cope with her longings and fears as she schemes against everyone who tries to be friendly.
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
1999
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
Description
Welcome Comfort, a lonely foster child, is assured by his friend the school custodian that there is a Santa Claus, but he does not discover the truth until one wondrous and surprising Christmas Eve.
Author
Series
Disaster strikes (Marlane Kennedy) volume 3
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
100 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Description
Taking a winter trip to bond with his new foster family, Jayden and his siblings Maggie and Connor are forced by a terrible car accident into a bleak storm to search for help and survive the elements.
5) Elliot
Author
Publisher
Pajama Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Description
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.
6) Touch blue
Author
Formats
Description
When the state of Maine threatens to shut down their island's one-room schoolhouse because of dwindling enrollment, eleven-year-old Tess, a strong believer in luck, and her family take in a trumpet-playing foster child to increase the school's population.
8) Gossamer
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
140 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
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 the frightening Sinisteeds.
Author
Series
Unforgettable Logan Foster volume 1
Publisher
HarperCollins
Formats
Description
Logan, an undersized twelve-year-old orphan with a photographic memory and no filter, discovers that his foster parents are superheroes in grave danger and only Logan's highly logical mind can save them.
10) Don't look now
Author
Series
Persefone trilogy (Michelle Gagnon) volume 2
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2013.
Physical Desc
319 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"Teen hackers Noa and Peter struggle to take down the AMRF corporation while rescuing foster kids from AMRF's gruesome experiments"--
12) Short term 12
Publisher
Cinedigm Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (96 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A young woman experiences the highs and lows of being a supervisor at a foster care facility.
14) The pinballs
Author
Formats
Description
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 two other kids, Harvey and Thomas J, she's just a pinball being bounced from bumper to bumper. As soon as you get settled, somebody puts another coin in the machine and off you go again. But against her will and her better judgment, Carlie and the boys become friends. And all three of them...
15) Rainbow Valley
Author
Series
Anne of Green Gables volume 7
Formats
Description
When widower, John Meredith and his four children move to a new town, they quickly bond with Jem, Walter, Nan, Di, Shirley and Rilla Blythe. Despite their questionable reputation, they become close friends spending time at a place called, Rainbow Valley.
Anne and Gilbert Blythe are happily married with six children. Similar to their parents, Jem, Walter, Nan, Di, Shirley and Rilla are bright, kind and extremely perceptive. They soon meet a new...
Author
Series
Persefone trilogy (Michelle Gagnon) volume 1
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
310 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
After waking up on an operating table with no memory of how she got there, Noa must team up with computer hacker Peter to stop a corrupt corporation with a deadly secret.
Author
Publisher
Razorbill, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC
Pub. Date
c2014.
Physical Desc
240 pages ; 22 cm
Description
In this twist on "The Nightingale," Little John, despite his own poverty and grief, reaches out to Gayle, an unhappy foster child living next-door who sings beautifully and hides a great secret.
19) Hope's boy
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
viii, 306 p. ; 25 cm.
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.
20) Orbiting Jupiter
Author
Formats
Description
"Jack, 12, tells the gripping story of Joseph, 14, who joins his family as a foster child. Damaged in prison, Joseph wants nothing more than to find his baby daughter, Jupiter, whom he has never seen. When Joseph has begun to believe he'll have a future,he is confronted by demons from his past that force a tragic sacrifice"--
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