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Author
Series
Quiet you carry volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When seventeen-year-old Victoria Parker is suddenly placed into foster care, she struggles to find words for the abuse that upended her life"-- Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Enchanter's child volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 11
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.
5) Snow foal
Author
Publisher
Peachtree Pubishing Company
Language
English
Description
Sent to stay with a foster family on a remote Exmoor farm, 11-year-old Addie, who is hurt, angry and mistrustful, discovers she's not so alone after all after rescuing a tiny wild foal from the moorland snow, leading to adventure and an unexpected friendship.
Author
Publisher
A Denene Millner book, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Carol Olivia Clementine wishes her parents did not live so far away, but Mama Rose provides a home, loves her, and cares for her just like a mother would.
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Selected by a prestigious family to be a companion to their silent, mysterious daughter, a traumatized orphan who has survived the terrible accident that killed her family begins questioning her sanity when she experiences strange phenomena in her hosts' isolated, gothic house.
8) What I carry
Author
Publisher
Ember
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Growing up in foster care, Muir has lived in many houses. And if she's learned one thing, it is to pack light. Carry only what fits in a suitcase. Toothbrush? Yes. Socks? Yes. Emotional attachment to friends? foster families? a boyfriend? Nope! There's no room for any additional baggage. Muir has just one year left before she ages out of the system. One year before she's free. One year to avoid anything--or anyone--that could get in her way. Then...
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Rynn was born with a hole in her heart--literally. Although it was fixed long ago, she still feels an emptiness there when she wonders about her birth family. As her relationship with her adoptive mother fractures, Rynn finally decides she needs to know more about the rest of her family. Her search starts with a name, the only thing she has from her birth mother, and she quickly learns that she has a younger sister living in foster care in a nearby...
10) I am loved
Author
Publisher
Inhabit Media
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Pakak is in a new foster home, with new people, new food, and new smells. Feeling alone and uncertain, Pakak finds comfort in a secret shared with him by his anaanattiaq, his grandmother, and in the knowledge that he is loved no matter how far away his family may be. Written as a gift for Inuit children in care by foster parents Kevin and Mary Qamaniq-Mason, this book is lovingly imbued with cultural familiarities that will resonate with children...
11) The stone child
Author
Series
Misewa saga volume 3
Publisher
Puffin Canada
Language
English
Description
"After discovering a near-lifeless Eli at the base of the Great Tree, Morgan knows she doesn't have much time to save him. And it will mean asking for help -- from friends old and new. Racing against the clock, and with Arik and Emily at her side, Morgan sets off to follow the trail away from the Great Tree to find Eli's soul before it's too late. As they journey deep into the northern woods, a place they've been warned never to enter, they face new...
Author
Series
Misewa saga volume 1
Publisher
Puffin Canada
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
"Morgan and Eli, two Indigenous children forced away from their families and communities, are brought together in a foster home in Winnipeg, Manitoba. They each feel disconnected, from their culture and each other, and struggle to fit in at school and at their new home -- until they find a secret place, walled off in an unfinished attic bedroom. A portal opens to another reality, Ask, bringing them onto frozen, barren grounds, where they meet Ochek...
13) City spies
Author
Series
City spies volume 1
Publisher
Aladdin
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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"-- Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
This is a Borzoi book, Alfred A. Knopf
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 10
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.
15) Scarlet ibis
Author
Publisher
A Caitlyn Dlouhy book, Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 5
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."-- Provided by publisher.
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