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1) Foster
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"An international bestseller and one of The Times's "Top 50 Novels Published in the 21st Century," Claire Keegan's piercing contemporary classic Foster is a heartbreaking story of childhood, loss, and love, now released as a standalone book for the first time ever in the US. It is a hot summer in rural Ireland. A child is taken by her father to live with relatives on a farm, not knowing when or if she will be brought home again. In the Kinsellas'...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
A Child Called "It" is the unforgettable account of one of the most severe child abuse cases in California history. Dave Pelzer was brutally beaten and starved by his emotionally unstable, alcoholic mother. He survived the abuse, and through his story, helps other people who have had abusive childhoods.
Author
Series
Publisher
Bantam Doubleday Dell Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c1987
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 7
Physical Desc
162 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
When their mother can no longer support them, six siblings are sent by the Children's Aid Society of New York City to live with farm families in Missouri in 1860.
Author
Series
Publisher
Bantam Doubleday Dell Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c1988
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 6
Physical Desc
150 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Michael Patrick Kelly from New York City is sent to a foster home, a Missouri farm with a sadistic owner, a bullying son, and a number of secrets, one of which may be murder.
Author
Series
Publisher
Mason Crest
Pub. Date
c2015
Physical Desc
128 pages : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
As you follow the story of Bobby and Cara, two children whose family was torn apart, you'll discover more about the foster care system, its history, and some of the challenges young people in the foster care system face today.
Author
Series
Christmas hope volume 9
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
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Description
"Lauren Gabriel spent many years of her childhood in foster homes, wishing her mother would come back for her and be the family she needs. Now twenty-years-old, she still longs for a place that she can truly call home. Her work as a cashier is unfulfilling, and at Christmas it's unbearable with the songs and carols and chatter of Christmas that she hears throughout the day. When Lauren ends her shift one night, she finds herself driving aimlessly...
9) Etched in sand: a true story of five siblings who survived an unspeakable childhood on Long Island
Author
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Calcaterra and her siblings endured a series of foster homes and intermittent homelessness. She managed to rise above her past while fighting to keep her brother and three sisters together. An unforgettable reminder that, regardless of social status, the American dream is still within reach for those who have the desire and the determination to succeed.
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"From Donna VanLiere, the New York Times bestselling author of The Christmas Hope series comes another heartwarming, inspirational story for the holidays, The Christmas Table. In June 1972, John Creighton determines to build his wife Joan a kitchen table. His largest project to date had been picture frames but he promises to have the table ready for Thanksgiving dinner. Inspired to put something delicious on the table, Joan turns to her mother's recipes...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
Willa and Mason, two teens who are unceremoniously dragged to Salem, Massachusetts for the summer, meet and help each other figure out their places in the world.
Willow has never felt like she belonged anywhere and is convinced that the only way to find a true home is to travel the world. But her plans to act on her dream are put on hold when her aloof and often absent mother drags Willow to Salem, Massachusetts, to wrap up the affairs of an aunt...
