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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
From the National Book Award–winning author of The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, the tale of a troubled boy’s trip through history.
Half Native American and half Irish, fifteen-year-old “Zits” has spent much of his short life alternately abused and ignored as an orphan and ward of the foster care system. Ever since his mother died, he’s felt alienated from everyone, but, thanks to the...
Half Native American and half Irish, fifteen-year-old “Zits” has spent much of his short life alternately abused and ignored as an orphan and ward of the foster care system. Ever since his mother died, he’s felt alienated from everyone, but, thanks to the...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Penobscot Indian Molly Ayer is close to 'aging out' out of the foster care system. A community service position helping an elderly woman clean out her home is the only thing keeping Molly out of juvie and worse.... As she helps Vivian sort through her possessions and memories, Molly learns that she and Vivian aren't as different as they seem to be. A young Irish immigrant orphaned in New York City, Vivian was put on a train to the Midwest with hundreds...
3) What I carry
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Growing up in foster care, Muir has lived in many houses. And if she's learned one thing, it is to Pack. Light. Carry only what fits in a suitcase. Toothbrush? Yes. Socks? Yes. Emotional attachment to friends? foster families? a boyfriend? Nope! There's no room for any additional baggage. Muir has just one year left before she ages out of the system. One year before she's free. One year to avoid anything--or anyone--that could get in her way. Then...
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 12
Physical Desc
304 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Traces the author's painful childhood in a series of foster homes, her deteriorating relationship with her emotionally unstable mother, abuse at the hands of a foster family, and her subsequent efforts to advocate for an improved foster care system.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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Formats
Description
Dave Pelzer's astonishing, disturbing account of his early years describes one of the most severe child abuse cases in California history. This book has spent over 175 weeks on the New York Times best-seller list and was also nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. Dave was in first grade when his unstable alcoholic mother began attacking him. Until he was in fifth grade, she starved, beat and psychologically ravaged her son. Eventually denying even his...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Formats
Description
As an adult, Dave Pelzer still struggles with the effects of his abusive childhood. This is the inspiring conclusion to his previous New York Times best-sellers: A Child Called It and The Lost Boy. Recounting his fears and insecurities, Dave traces his path to personal victory. Today, he is a noted speaker on the prevention of child abuse.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Grace, adopted at birth, is raised as an only child. At sixteen she's just put her own baby up for adoption, and now is looking for her biological family. She discovers Maya, her loudmouthed younger bio twin sister who was also adopted ; and Joaquin, their stoic older bio brother, who has no interest in bonding over their shared biological mother after seventeen years in the foster care system. Grace struggles between cautious joy at having found...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
Growing up, Mallory Mouse Dodge learned that the best way to survive was to say nothing. After she escaped her terrifying childhood and spent years being homeschooled by loving adoptive parents, she is starting her senior year at a public high school. The first day, she runs into Rider Stark, the friend and protector from her childhood, and Mallory realizes that their bond never really faded. But as Rider's life spirals out of control, Mallory faces...
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