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1) Ginny Moon
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Despite being placed in the ideal foster home, autistic fourteen-year-old Ginny Moon is intent on running back to her abusive, drug-addict birth mother, Gloria.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Lindsay and Kerrie Ann are sisters who have known hardship from an early age. Without guidance from their neglectful mother, their only aid came from an unlikely source, a retired exotic dancer by the name of Miss Honi Love. When the girls’ mother was sent to prison, Miss Honi tried unsuccessfully to save them from being separated and sent into foster care.
Thirty years later, Lindsay is still trying to reconnect with her sister. The owner
...3) Below Zero
Author
Series
Joe Pickett novels volume 9
Language
English
Description
After he receives a phone message supposedly from his believed-dead foster daughter, game warden Joe Pickett becomes increasingly suspicious when subsequent calls are placed from locations where serious crimes have occurred.
5) Night road
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
When stay-at-home mom Jude Farraday takes in Lexi, a former foster child with a dark past, the girl becomes inseparable from Jude's teenage twins before a shattering accident rips the family apart and sets the stage for a sobering confrontation years later.
Author
Series
Marked girl volume 1
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Stranded in modern-day Los Angeles by a magical portal, Prince Cedric of Caelum, his fellow royals and his betrothed, Kat, bond with a filmmaker foster girl, Liv, who discovers her surprising connection to Cedric's world.
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Billy Batson (aka Shazam!) and his fellow foster kids are still learning how to juggle teenage life with having adult superhero alter egos, but a vengeful trio of ancient gods has arrived on Earth in search of the magic stolen from them long ago. Billy and his family are thrust into a battle for their superpowers, their lives, and the fate of their world.
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
An African American lawman struggles to come to terms with the moral fallout of crimes committed by his loved ones when he learns that he was wrongly taken from his biological mother and that his white foster father exploited their family's influence to retain custody.
12) Sanctuary Bay
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
When Sarah Merson receives the opportunity of a lifetime to attend the most elite prep school in the country, Sanctuary Bay Academy, it seems almost too good to be true. When her roommate suddenly goes missing, she finds herself in a race against time, not only to find her, but to save herself and discover the dark truth behind Sanctuary Bay's glossy reputation.
Author
Publisher
Christy Ottaviano Books, Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old high school senior Emma's life is transformed by Dylan, her new foster brother, but she finds herself torn between romantic and familial feelings in a tale reminiscent of Wuthering Heights.
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
When eleven-year-old foster kid Mo finds a handmade cookbook filled with someone else's family recipes, she collects the stories behind them and builds a website to share them, secretly hoping a long-lost relative will find her and give her a family recipe all her own.
15) What I Carry
Author
Pub. Date
2020
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Entering her final year before being released from the foster-care system, a teen who has avoided emotional attachments forges unexpected bonds with three classmates, including a boy who changes her perspectives on everything.
16) City spies
Author
Series
City spies volume 1
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
"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"-- Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
MIRA
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
As children in foster care, Cecilia and Robin vowed they would be the sisters each other never had. Now when Robin is nearly killed in an accident, Cecilia drops everything to be with her. Reunited, the sister's begin to work on a project that could uncover memories for them both. Yet soon dark secrets of the past emerge that could test their bond to its very limit.
18) America
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Lost in the foster care system a teen boy finds help and hope from a caring psychiatrist.
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Raised off the grid by his survivalist father in the middle of nowhere, his own survival skills not yet honed, Remy is days shy of his eighth birthday when his father unexpectedly dies. He is found--near feral, silent, and terrified--in the small rural town of Blaire. To Anne, a nurturing mother of two adopted teenagers who's still dealing with her own childhood rejections, Remy is not a lost cause. Just a challenging one. As Remy cautiously adapts...
Author
Series
Berlin Bookmobile volume 2
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Miriam and Calvin Gingerich have been trying for a baby for several years, but the Lord hasn't seen fit to bless them. Unable to confide in anyone who might tell Calvin--out of fear she'll disappoint him with another miscarriage--Miriam turns to bookmobile librarian Sarah Anne Miller--and any books she may have on pregnancy and childbirth. Calvin has been keeping a secret from his wife, but it's not another woman. It's a little boy. One afternoon...
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