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61) Night road
Author
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
Publisher
Gallery Books/Jeter Publishing
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First Gallery Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 306 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
In the tradition of The Promise of a Pencil, and Kisses from Katie, comes an inspirational memoir by the founder of Comfort Cases about his turbulent childhood in the foster care system and the discrimination and countless obstacles he endured in adopting his four children.
63) Home for a while
Author
Publisher
Magination Press, an imprint of the American Psychological Association
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
Calvin has lived in many houses that never felt like home, but Maggie, his new foster mother, helps him deal with his emotions when he misbehaves, and still offers hugs.--
64) Midnight train
Author
Series
Enchanter's child volume 2
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
343 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
A conclusion to the duology that began with Twilight Hauntings finds Alex fleeing a band of monstrous Enchantments while investigating the mystery of her banishment amid shocking revelations about her identity.
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 336 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"During a terrible heat wave in 1991--the worst in a decade--ten-year-old Anton has been locked in an apartment in the projects, alone, for seven days, without air conditioning or a fan. With no electricity, the refrigerator and lights do not work. Hot, hungry, and desperate, Anton shatters a window and climbs out. Cutting his leg on the broken glass, he is covered in blood when the police find him. Juanita, his mother, is discovered in a crack house...
67) Fighting words
Author
Language
English
Description
"Ten-year-old Della can rely on her older sister, Suki, for anything, but when Suki attempts suicide, Della must seek help and speak out about the sexual abuse they've both suffered at the hands of their mother's boyfriend"-- Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
260 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Famed swordfish boat captain Linda Greenlaw faces her greatest battle with nature-- a newly adopted teenage daughter. Linda Greenlaw isn't a woman who shies away from a challenge-- a nationally renowned swordfish boat captain made famous in the film The Perfect Storm, Greenlaw is also a bestselling author and a television celebrity. Through hard work and determination, she had created a life of peaceful independence, living on a rugged island off...
Author
Language
English
Description
After the untimely death of her mother and the arrest of her father for killing a man in barroom brawl, fourteen-year-old Sarah Crane is forced to grow up fast. Left in the cold care of a foster family and alienated at school, Sarah befriends classmate Nick Dunnigan, a former mental patient still plagued by voices and visions, and the eccentric art instructor Bettina Phillips, a mentor eager to nurture Sarah’s talent for painting. But within...
Author
Series
Unmapped chronicles volume 4
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First Aladdin hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
312 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In this final adventure in the Unmapped Kingdoms, a young orphan rises up to stop the evil harpy Morg once and for all"--
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Stand-up comedian and actress Tiffany Haddish grew up in one of the poorest parts of South Central Los Angeles. Her mother wound up with a debilitating brain injury after surviving a car accident. Tiffany never fit in anywhere: not in the households she rotated through in the foster care system, and certainly not the nearly all white high school she had to ride the bus an hour to attend. As an illiterate ninth grader, Tiffany did everything she could...
Author
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
223 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Family is content for Kaylee Volk. Her vlogs celebrate a happy home with her husband and their three foster children, Bethany, Mason, and Andrea. Everything is perfect until the day the family's private plane plummets into the ocean. Only Kaylee manages to survive-with a shocking revelation: Andrea did it. This is particularly devastating for Nora McTavish, a child protective services agent who is already familiar with Andrea's troubled history....
Author
Series
Smoky Mountain novels volume 3
Publisher
Canterbury House Pub
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
248 pages : map ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
A young woman, with six foster children under twelve, hopes for patience, peace, and a bigger house--but love? Not hardly. However, sometimes fate deals an unexpected hand.
Author
Series
Outlaws of time volume 3
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
245 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
After discovering that his favorite time traveling heroes are his real parents, Alex sets out to find Father Tiempo but is ambushed, driving Sam and Glory Miracle to race after the son they didn't know they would have.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
324 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Danny Monteverde believes in magic, he believes that the enchanted land of Rio Luna in his older sister's favorite book is real, and most of all he believes that if he can find the way to Rio Luna he will find his sister Pili there, because he does not believe that his sister would run away from the group home where they lived and leave him behind; but after years of being passed from one foster family to another his faith begins to...
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
375 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
At twenty-seven, Hadley is still trying to get free of the weight she's carried all her life: entering foster care at age five, getting arrested at seventeen for arson, and losing her boyfriend, Monroe, when she needed him most. Monroe never wanted to walk out on Hadley. He'd understood her, from her desire to help children with speech issues to her intense temper. But when she was arrested, he became haunted by what he knew and convinced his only...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
358 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Secretly providing for himself and a beloved grandfather who is succumbing to dementia, young Arlo is placed in the care of a social worker and runs away to find and connect with his only other family member.
78) 29 seconds
Author
Language
English
Description
"Sarah is a young professor struggling to prove herself in a workplace controlled by the charming and manipulative Alan Hawthorne. A renowned scholar and television host, Hawthorne rakes in million-dollar grants for the university where Sarah works--so his inappropriate treatment of female colleagues behind closed doors has gone unchallenged for years. And Sarah is his newest target. When Hawthorne's advances become threatening, Sarah is left with...
Author
Publisher
Soho Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
273 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"A spare, lyrical Native American coming of age story set in rural Oklahoma in the late 1980s. With his single mother in jail, Sequoyah, a fifteen-year-old Cherokee boy, is placed in foster care with the Troutt family. Literally and figuratively scarred by his unstable upbringing, Sequoyah has spent years mostly keeping to himself, living with his emotions pressed deep below the surface--that is, until he meets the seventeen-year-old Rosemary, another...
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