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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.
Publisher
Economic Productions
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
1 DVD (76 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Todd is a pot-smoking custodian at a retirement community. When one of the residents mistakes him for her son, he finds himself becoming emotionally attached to his work for the first time.The film was shot "in an actual nursing home, using real residents as many of the actors, with mixed in footage from a documentary that was made at the facility, blurring the lines between fact and fiction."
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.
6) 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.
Author
Appears on list
Formats
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.
8) Touch blue
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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.
10) 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.
11) The pinballs
Author
Publisher
HarperTrophy
Pub. Date
1987
Physical Desc
136 pages ; 20 cm.
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...
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Description
Aphasia is a condition caused either by a stroke to the left side hemisphere of the brain, or by a violent trauma to the left side of the brain, it often leaves patients with weakness to the right hand side of their bodies, and can affect speech. This book enables people to use melodic intonation therapies and basic speech therapies to overcome the often debilitating effect of aphasia. This book was written jointly by Dr Liz Barnes who is the clinical...
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Description
El concepto de familia se ha transformado, con un acento importante en la razón y la disciplina, la norma y el control, la práctica religiosa y la vida pública. La institución familiar es la base de la sociedad y este texto describe el concepto de familia desde la perspectiva sistémica, psicosocial e identifica patrones de interacción, comunicación y funcionamiento familiar, así como el abordaje de la familia frente a la enfermedad y las crisis...
Author
Publisher
Pearson Education
Pub. Date
c2013
Physical Desc
xix, 392 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 23cm.
Description
"Using simple explanations and clear examples, Being a Caregiver in a Home Setting teaches all aspects of caring for individuals in the home. It explains how to accomplish the daily tasks involved in home care; emphasizes the importance of both efficiency and a caring and sensitive attitude towards patients and family members; and helps home health aides understand their roles in the home health care system. All activities are geared toward encouraging...
18) 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.
20) 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...
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