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1) Boy 2.0
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
When thirteen-year-old African American Coal discovers he can turn invisible, he searches for answers about his past with the help of his friends and his new foster family.
2) City spies
Author
Series
City spies volume 1
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Sara Martinez is facing years in the juvenile detention system for hacking into the foster care computer system to prove that her foster parents are crooks. But then she gets a second chance when a mysterious man offers her a chance to join a group of MI6 affiliated spies"--
Author
Language
English
Description
Amélie Cœur has never known what it truly means to be happy. She thought she?d found happiness once, in a love that ended in tragedy and nearly sent her over the edge. Now, at seventeen, Mel is beginning to piece her life back together. Under the supervision of Laurelle Child Services, the exclusive foster care agency that raised her, Mel is sober and living with a new family among Manhattan?s elite. It?s her last chance at adoption before she...
7) Gooseberry
Author
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old nonbinary B forms a connection with an anxious stray dog, Gooseberry, prompting them to pursue their dream of becoming a dog trainer while navigating the complexities of trust and building a family in their newest foster home.
8) Mad dog
Author
Series
Starlight Animal Rescue volume 2
Publisher
Tyndale House
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Wes is a young boy who is carrying around a lot of anger, much of it due to the separation of his family, particularly from his drug-using mother. Through the loving care of his foster family, Wes learns to channel his anger and receive the loving grace of God.
9) Unstoppable
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2013, c2012
Language
English
Description
Upon going to the doctor for a routine knee injury, foster child and aspiring NFL athlete Harrison learns that he has bone cancer.
10) Home for a while
Author
Publisher
Magination Press, an imprint of the American Psychological Association
Pub. Date
[2021]
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.--
Author
Publisher
[Independently published]
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Mr and Mrs Swan build a big nest, so that they have enough space to help anyone who needs it. This touching story of reunification, kinship care and adoption can help children make sense of the family court system, the role of social workers in child protection, and many different kinds of foster care. -- from back cover.
Author
Series
Princess Private Eye volume 1
Publisher
Disney-Hyperion, an imprint of Buena Vista Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Gen, a foster child living in New York, discovers she is a long-lost princess of the Kingdom of Raldonia, and must solve the mystery behind a threat to the crown.
14) Three pennies
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
In San Francisco, eleven-year-old Marin desperately searches for her birthmother knowing time is running out before she is adopted, and discovers for the first time in her life what it feels like to be truly wanted by someone.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2023]
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.
Author
Publisher
Lawley Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Now that Mouse is settled at Mama Bunny's foster home, it's time to start school. Mouse wishes he could go to his old school with his old friends, but it's too far away. Who will he sit with at lunch? Will anyone want to play with him? Follow Mouse on his emotional ride of making new friends and learning empathy towards others."--Back cover.
Author
Series
Enchanter's child volume 1
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
In a world where practicing magic is punishable with imprisonment, orphan Alex, who can create clairvoyant moving pictures with a set of playing cards, flees the city of Luma to escape the deadly Hauntings who hunt magic users and to uncover her true identity.
Author
Publisher
Christy Ottaviano Books, Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old high school senior Emma's life is transformed by Dylan, her new foster brother, but she finds herself torn between romantic and familial feelings in a tale reminiscent of Wuthering Heights.
Author
Series
Unmapped chronicles volume 3
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2021.
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"--