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1) Foster
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"An international bestseller and one of The Times's "Top 50 Novels Published in the 21st Century," Claire Keegan's piercing contemporary classic Foster is a heartbreaking story of childhood, loss, and love, now released as a standalone book for the first time ever in the US. 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'...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
A Child Called "It" is the unforgettable account of one of the most severe child abuse cases in California history. Dave Pelzer was brutally beaten and starved by his emotionally unstable, alcoholic mother. He survived the abuse, and through his story, helps other people who have had abusive childhoods.
3) Night road
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
After a string of foster homes and the death of her heroin-addict mother, Lexi Baill is taken in by a newly discovered great-aunt who lives a spartan life near Seattle. Lexi soon meets Mia and her loving twin brother, Zach. The friendship flourishes, and Mia's mother draws Lexi into the family circle. A slowly growing attraction between Zach and Lexi begins, but then Lexi, Mia, and Zach collectively make a bad decision that results in a tragedy with...
Author
Series
Keystone Stables volume 1
Publisher
Zonderkidz
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 4
Physical Desc
137 p. : ill., map ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Skye, a troubled foster child, comes to live at Keystone Stables, a Christian home where she discovers her love for horses.
6) Middletown
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Thirteen-year-old Eli likes baggy clothes, baseball caps, and one girl in particular. Her seventeen-year-old sister Anna is more traditionally feminine; she loves boys and staying out late. They are sisters...Their dad has long been out of the picture, and their mom lives at the mercy of her next drink. When their mom lands herself in enforced rehab, Anna and Eli are left to fend for themselves. Eli and Anna have each gotten used to telling lies...
Author
Series
Keystone Stables volume 2
Publisher
Zonderkidz
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 4
Physical Desc
136 p. : ill., map ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
The love of her foster parents, her friend Morgan, and her own devotion to the horses and dogs at Keystone Stables help Skye become a Christian and to, in turn, find a way to help her troubled friend Sooze.
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Jabberwocky
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 18
Physical Desc
430 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Very strange occurrences have long surrounded fourteen-year-old Bran, who learns of his link to a curse created by his murdered mother and strives to make things right, hindered by the ban on magic in the city of Dunce and pursued by his mother's former masters.
Author
Series
Keystone Stables volume 3
Publisher
Zonderkidz
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
126 p. : ill., map ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Skye and Morgan have their hands full trying to share friendship and God's love with Tanya, a new foster child in the Chambers' household, who is a veteran shoplifter and a runaway but who shows surprising devotion to a mare and her foal.
11) Watch over me
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
A newly graduated Mila emerges from foster care to accept a job on an isolated Northern California Coast farm where she confronts haunting memories and the traumas of her fellow residents.
12) Orbiting Jupiter
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
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"--
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
Presents the story of "Goldilocks and the Three Bears" as told by young Teddy's governess, who came to work at the Vaughn family "cottage" shortly before a golden-haired girl, ragged and dirty, entered the home and soon became a beloved foster child, until evil characters tried to take her away.
14) Free verse
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 9
Physical Desc
335 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"After her brother dies in a fire, Sasha Harless has no one left and nowhere to turn, but soon discovers family she didn't know she had, and begins to heal through poetry"--