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101) Cake
Author
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Wilma Sue is wary of the eccentric sisters, Ruth and Naomi, at her new foster home, but wonders if she might have a true home with them, baking and delivering cakes and tending their chickens, until she is implicated in a series of neighborhood crimes.
102) Finding Stinko
Author
Pub. Date
2007.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
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 gives him back his voice and his hope.
103) Speranza's sweater
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Speranza wears her sweater everywhere, hanging onto the last memories of her birth home, until it's threadbare. Like her unraveled sweater, Speranza must weave together a new story, brining threads from her past and strands from her present, into a future of love, family and the true meaning of home.
104) Peas and carrots
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
After her mother is arrested, fifteen-year-old Dess is sent to live with the foster family that took in her baby brother several years before, and although she and her new foster sister, Hope, clash immediately, they soon realize they have much in common.
Author
Series
Gatekeepers volume 1
Pub. Date
2005.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Sent to live in a foster home in a remote Yorkshire village, Matt, a troubled fourteen-year-old English boy, uncovers an evil plot involving witchcraft and the site of an ancient stone circle.
Author
Pub. Date
2008.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Zac never believed his grandfather's tales about their enslaved ancestors being descended from an African king, but when his grandfather is murdered and the villains come after Zac, he sets out for Ghana to find King Baktu's long-lost treasure before the murderers do.
107) Over the edge
Author
Series
Mysteries in our national parks volume 7
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
While she studies condors in the Grand Canyon a scientist's life is threatened, and the strange, hostile, teenage computer whiz in her family's foster care might be involved.
108) Running scared
Author
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
While lost in a tunnel at Carlsbad Cavern, thirteen-year-old Jack, eleven-year-old Ashley, and their eight-year-old foster brother, Sam, think bats and darkness are their worst problems, until they stumble across thieves.
109) Cindy's runaway colt
Author
Series
Thoroughbred volume 13
Pub. Date
[1995]
Language
English
Description
Cindy Blake wants to stay at Whitebrook Farm forever. After being shuffled from one foster home to another, she's finally found a place where people love her and, best of all, where she's surrounded by horses. Then Lavinia Townsend accuses Cindy of stealing. The authorities want to send her to another home, and even her new foster parents seem to doubt her. Cindy's troubles multiply when she discovers a mistreated horse and hides him. If they find...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
In this modern retelling, Anne is fostered into the West Philly home of siblings Marilla and Matthew, and while she initially has a hard time at school, she ends up joining the robotics team and competes for a spot in an elite STEM program.
111) Ghost horses
Author
Series
Mysteries in our national parks volume 6
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
Visiting Zion National Park with his family, twelve-year-old Jack encounters two mysteries, the strange behavior of a band of wild mustangs and the possibly sinister actions of his new foster brother, a Shoshone boy.
112) Overdrive
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First Simon Pulse hardcover edition.
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Jules Parish turned to stealing cars to try to get her sister out of foster care, but after she is caught, a wealthy eccentic offers a promising--but perilous--solution.
113) I'll sing you one-o
Author
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Reunited with her long-lost twin brother, twelve-year-old Gemma constantly tests the boundaries of acceptable behavior while relying on angels to help her connect with her new family.
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
Primera edición.
Language
Español
Description
Gilly Hopkins tiene once años. Desde muy pequenña ha vivido con diferentes familias, ya que su madre nunca se ha ocupado de ella. Debido a su caraácter rebelde, todos los intentos de adopcioón han fracasado. Cuando llega a casa de la senñora Trotter, mujer sencilla y cordial, la ninña la rechaza pero poco a poco, a fuerza de carinño y comprensioón, Gilly comienza a querer a su nueva familia.
115) Little bits of sky
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First American edition.
Language
English
Description
"Siblings Ira and Zac know the foster system inside and out, but it's only when they are sent to Skilly House, a children's care home in London, that their lives truly start to change"--
116) Carolina Harmony
Author
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
In the summer of 1964, Carolina is a runaway hiding out at Harmony Farm in North Carolina's Blue Ridge Mountains. The Harmony's, Mr. Ray and Miss Latah treat Carolina as their own and wait for her to reveal her secret. But Carolina doesn't want to reveal the accident that claimed her parents and her younger brother and the surrogate grandmother who cared for Carolina until illness forced Carolina to go to a foster home. Russell, a troublemaker...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Josh was a squirrel without a squirrel family, so other families tried to take him in. Between the pelicans, the leopards, the otters, the snakes, and many more, no one seemed to want a squirrel like him. Josh didn't want a family, either. He did everything he could to scare those families away first, but the elephants weren't like other families. The elephants were very large and very patient, and they wanted Josh to be part of their family today,...
118) Solace of the road
Author
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
Library edition.
Language
English
Description
While running away from a London foster home just before her fifteenth birthday, Holly has ample time to consider her years of residential care and her early life with her Irish mother, whom she is now trying to reach.
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