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1) Night road
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
"For eighteen years, Jude Farraday has put her children's needs above her own, and it shows-her twins, Mia and Zach-are bright and happy teenagers. When Lexi Baill moves into their small, close knit community, no one is more welcoming than Jude. Lexi, a former foster child with a dark past, quickly becomes Mia's best friend. Then Zach falls in love with Lexi and the three become inseparable. Jude does everything to keep her kids on track for college...
6) Unstoppable
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
"If anyone understands the phrase 'tough luck,' it's Harrison. As a foster kid in a cruel home, he knows his dream of one day playing for the NFL is a long shot. Then Harrison's luck seems to change. He is brought into a new home with kind, loving parents--his new dad is even a football coach. Harrison's big build and his incredible determination quickly make him a star running back on the junior high school team. In no time, he's practically unstoppable....
Author
Series
Deacon's family volume 2
Language
English
Description
A new teacher in Stoney Ridge takes on the challenge to help find homes for foster children in Lancaster County. Her effort brings hope to two young girls, but complicates her budding romance.
Author
Series
Enchanter's child volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
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.
10) Orphan train
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
"Between 1854 and 1929, so-called orphan trains ran regularly from the cities of the East Coast to the farmlands of the Midwest, carrying thousands of abandoned children whose fates would be determined by luck and chance. This is the story of one such child. As a young Irish immigrant, Vivian Daly was sent by rail from New York City to an uncertain future a world away. Returning east later in life, Vivian leads a quiet, peaceful existence on the coast...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Growing up in the foster system, Quinn O'Meara made a point of never getting involved. When she discovers a crying baby amid a fiery crime scene, she knows she has no choice. Suddenly in way over her head, Quinn turns to the police, unintentionally positioning herself in the crosshairs of a deadly human-trafficking ring. The last time homicide detective Nick Saldano saw Quinn, she was still the young girl he'd shared a foster home with. The girl...
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
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2023
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
When eleven-year-old foster kid Mo finds a handmade cookbook filled with someone else's family recipes, she collects the stories behind them and builds a website to share them, secretly hoping a long-lost relative will find her and give her a family recipe all her own.
16) Snow foal
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Formats
Description
When eleven-year-old Addie goes to stay with a foster-care family on a remote Exmoor farm in the midst of a very cold winter, she is full of hurt, anger and a deep mistrust of everyone around her. Until one day, when she rescues a tiny wild foal from the moorland snow and Addie discovers that perhaps she's not so alone after all. And as adventure and unexpected friendship blossom, Addie is determined that both of them will know what is to be home...
17) Strays like us
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
Twelve-year-old Winifred is being fostered by the eccentric but kind Margery Dawson while her mother is dealing with addiction problems, and mostly Fred is determined not to form any attachments to anybody--until the condition of Toby, the abused dog next door, captures first her attention and then her heart, and somehow it becomes increasingly difficult to stay detached from the people who are helping her.
19) Geek girl
Author
Publisher
Sweetwater Books
Pub. Date
[2011], ©2011
Physical Desc
vi, 274 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Jen, a teenaged foster child and social outcast, makes a bet with her friends that she can turn Trevor, a straight-A student and self-avowed "geek", into a social outcast like herself, but quickly finds there is more to him than she expected.
Author
Edition
Print book : Fiction : English
Physical Desc
314 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Once upon a time, I dreamed my life would be a fairy tale. But it just so happens that I don't need a knight in shining armor to save me anymore. I'm made of freaking steel. It's time for answers. Time for vengeance. And time to finally unmask the notorious V. There's no going back now.See what happens in the epic conclusion of the Made of Steel series.
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