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Author
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--
3) Just Lucky
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
When her grandfather dies and her grandmother is diagnosed with dementia, fifteen-year-old Lucky must navigate the foster-care system.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
The morning after her eighteenth birthday, Andrea McNulty wakes up in a motel room, covered in blood and unable to remember what happened the previous night, only to discover that her parents were brutally attacked and she is the main suspect.
6) Free verse
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
When her last family member dies in a fire, Sasha is placed in foster care but is intent on leaving her small West Virginia mining town, until she makes a new friend at school and learns how to manage her grief through poetry.
7) Fast break
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
Since his mother's death, Jayson, twelve, has focused on basketball and surviving but he is found out and placed with an affluent foster family of a different race, and must learn to accept many changes, including facing his former teammates in a championship game.
10) Raven's gate
Author
Series
Gatekeepers volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
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
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Through letters to his little sister, who is living in a different foster home, sixth-grader Lonnie, also known as Locomotion, keeps a record of their lives while they are apart, describing his own foster family, including his foster brother who returns home after losing a leg in the Iraq War.
12) Safe Harbour
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
When fourteen-year-old Harbour finds herself living in a tent in a Toronto ravine, she accepts the help of a homeless teen named Lise, who shows her how to navigate the shelter system while trying to unravel Harbour's mysterious past.
13) Runaway twin
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
Thirteen-year-old Sunny, accompanied by a stray dog, takes advantage of a windfall to travel from her Nebraska foster home to Enumclaw, Washington, to find the twin sister from whom she was separated at age three.
14) Middletown
Author
Language
English
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...
15) In another life
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
Told in two voices, high school seniors Chloe Holden and Cash Colton try to determine if she is his foster mother's daughter, Emily, who was kidnapped at age three.
17) Give and take
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 6
Physical Desc
313 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
When eleven-year-old Maggie's parents become temporary foster parents for a new baby, her tendency to hoard spirals out of control.
18) Welcome Comfort
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) ill. ; 29 cm.
Language
English
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.
19) Little Cub
Author
Publisher
Philomel
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
A young bear cub, who is alone in the world, and Old Bear, who is grumpy and tired of living alone, meet and discover what they have been missing.
20) Three pennies
Author
Publisher
Atheneum
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 4
Physical Desc
181 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Referring to the I-Ching and a trio of good-luck pennies whenever she is bounced to a new foster home, Marin finds herself in a place that feels like a forever home while trying to find her birth mother.
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