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Publisher
Colorado Department of Education, Division of Pathways, Office of Dropout Prevention and Student Re-engagement
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (11 pages).
Language
English
Description
Children and youth in foster care are a relatively small population of students in Colorado's K-12 schools. However, they experience the largest academic achievement gap as a group. The dropout rate for children and youth in foster care continues to be significantly higher than Colorado's state average.
Author
Publisher
Mascot Kids!
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
"Montana is a thinker and a rememberer, and tomorrow is his Memory Day. He used to be a foster kid, but now he lives with New Mom, who adopted him. There's a differentness about this mom--she's like a steady stream that gurgles. But Montana is still adjusting to his place in this family, and life on a farm in the middle of winter"--
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
'I'm so sorry, Casey,' my link worker John said, sounding weary. 'I know this is probably the worst time I could ring you, but we desperately need someone to take a child tonight.' It's the night before Christmas when Casey and Mike get the call. A twelve-year-old girl, stuck between a rock and a hard place. Her father is on a ventilator, fighting for his life, while her mother is currently on remand in prison. Despite claiming she attacked him in...
45) Scarlet ibis
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
273 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
When a fire leaves twelve-year-old Scarlet in a different foster home than her autistic little brother, she does everything she can to find her way back to him--even if it means sacrificing a better life for herself--
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
310 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"When two young boys discover human bones buried beneath a tree in a trailer park, Detective Josie Quinn races to join her team at the scene. She used to play in those woods as a child, happier outside and away from her abusive mother, Belinda Rose. Josie's past crashes into her present when a rare dental condition confirms the bones belong to a teenage foster-child who was murdered thirty years ago. A girl named Belinda Rose. Josie hasn't seen her...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 9
Physical Desc
362 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Moving to the Philippines with his zoologist mother, twelve-year-old Pablo struggles with anxiety while his mother fosters an orphaned child with a facial anomaly.
48) Fighting words
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 7
Physical Desc
259 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Depending on an older sister who protected her when their mother went to prison and their mother's boyfriend committed a terrible act, 10-year-old Della tries to figure out what to do when her older sister attempts suicide.
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: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Lauren begins stealing to raise money for autistic kids, like her brother, who don't have her family's resources, she convinces Sierra, a foster child, to help with the Robin Hood scheme, in a story told half in prose and half in verse.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Lost Boy has spent over two years on the New York Times best-seller list and has profoundly influenced more than one million readers' lives. Following the tremendous success of Pulitzer Prize nominee A Child Called "It", this book continues the extraordinary tale of author Dave Pelzer's childhood. On the verge of adolescence, Dave is rescued from his terrifyingly abusive, alcoholic mother and made a permanent ward of the court. Then the real journey...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"When Maze returns to Wildstone for the wedding of her estranged bff and the sister of her heart, it's also a reunion of a once ragtag team of teenagers who had only each other until a tragedy tore them apart and scattered them wide. Now as adults together again in the lake house, there are secrets and resentments mixed up in all the amazing childhood memories. Unexpectedly, they instantly fall back into their roles: Maze their reckless leader, Cat...
55) Runaway girl
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Fourteen-year-old Adrianna arrives on Casey's doorstep with no possessions, no English, and no explanation. It will be a few weeks before Casey starts getting the shocking answers to her questions... Brought to Casey as a short-term emergency placement, fourteen-year-old Adrianna arrives with nothing but her gratitude. Having 'turned herself in' to a social services office some hundred miles away, she has no possessions, no English and, apparently,...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"At once the deeply moving memoir of a troubled mother-daughter relationship and a meditation on trauma, resilience, transcendence, and redemption, this unique story's messages are universal, offering insight into what it means to survive, to rise above, to heal, and to forgive."--
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (130 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"Billy Batson--aka Shazam!--and his fellow foster kids are still learning how to juggle teenage life with having adult Super Hero alter egos, but a vengeful trio of ancient gods has arrived on Earth in search of the magic stolen from them long ago. Now, Billy and his family are thrust into a battle for their superpowers, their lives and the fate of their world"--Container.
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
387 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"A generation of Nigerian children were born in Britain in the fifties and sixties, privately fostered by white families, then taken to Nigeria by their parents. Coconut is the story of one of those children. 1963, North London. Nan fosters one-year-old Florence Olajide and calls her 'Ann.' Florence adores her foster mother more than anything but Nan, and the children around her, all have white skin and she can't help but feel different. Then, four...
Author
Language
English
Description
Left in the cold care of a loveless foster family and alienated at school, Sarah Crane finds a kindred spirit in classmate Nick Dunnigan, a former mental patient still plagued by voices and visions, and in eccentric art instructor Bettina Phillips who is eager to mentor Sarah's artistic talent. But within the walls of Bettina's ancestral home, Sarah finds something altogether different and disturbing--a gateway from the grave into the world of the...
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