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Author
Series
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Nick just wants to replace the TV his sister accidentally broke before their foster parents find out. To repay the debt, the sixteen-year-old has to steal bikes, break them down and rebuild them to sell. But the debt and the violence keep growing. Even Nick's own beloved fixed-gear bike--the fixie he built with his dad--is up for grabs"--Page 4 of cover.
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
940L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Thireteen-year-old Rachel has been shuttled from one bad foster family to another ever since her mother died in a car accident. Now she is sent to a place that is a last resort for kids like her: a farm in the middle of nowhere run by a disfigured recluse named Amelia Walton.
5) The pinballs
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
600L
Language
English
Description
Three lonely foster children learn to care about themselves and about each other.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
When Cedric, crowned prince of Caelum, and his royal friends find themselves stranded in modern-day Los Angeles, via a magic portal and the evil traitor Malquin, all they want to do is get home to Caelum as soon as possible. As they explore possibilities, they meet Liv, a filmmaker foster girl who just wants to get out of the foster system and on with her life. As she and Cedric become friends, they discover that she's more connected to his world...
Author
Lexile measure
650L
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
Series
Princess Private Eye volume 1
Language
English
Formats
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"--Title verso page.
9) Mad dog
Author
Series
Starlight animal rescue volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
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.
10) Unstoppable
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
730L
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
Harley Merlin volume 02
Language
English
Formats
Description
A dark past. A hidden power. A dangerous enemy. Harley Merlin has a lot of unanswered questions in her life. What drove her father to kill her mother? How can she know the true extent of her magical abilities? Has Wade Crowley always been this annoying? After the violent gargoyle incident that left many dead, Harley fears what other evil tricks her psychotic aunt has up her sleeve. When she discovers that magical foster kids like herself are in danger,...
12) Impulse
Author
Series
Tony Hawk's 900 revolution volume 2
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
660L
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Dylan Crow, known as Slider, prefers skateboarding around New York to going to school--but when he gets mixed up in the search for the Artifact he needs the help of The Revolution to save himself, his foster family, and his friend Juliet.
Author
Series
Outlaws of time volume 02
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Sam Miracle, a disabled foster child, and the adventurous Glory work to save their friend Peter from the Vulture and put their trust in Ghost, a strange ancient creature, to help them fight the forces against them.
14) Three pennies
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
850L
Language
English
Formats
Description
A girl in foster care tries to find her birth mother before she loses her forever in this spare and beautifully told novel about last chances and new opportunities. For a kid bouncing from foster home to foster home, The Book of Changes is the perfect companion. That's why Marin carries three pennies and a pocket-sized I Ching with her everywhere she goes. Yet when everything in her life suddenly starts changing-when Marin lands in a foster home...
15) City spies
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
750L
Language
English
Description
"Sara Martinez is a hacker. She recently broke into the New York City juvenile justice system to expose her foster parents as cheats and lawbreakers. However, instead of being hailed as a hero, she finds herself facing years in a juvenile detention facility and banned from using computers. Enter Mother, a British spy who not only gets sara released from jail but also offers her a chence to make a home for herself withing a secret team of your MI6...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
740L
Language
English
Description
"Autistic and nearly nonverbal, twelve-year-old Nova is happy in her new foster home and school, but eagerly anticipates the 1986 Challenger launch, for which her sister, Bridget, promised to return"--Title verso page.
18) Otto and Pio
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Otto the squirrel reluctantly becomes a foster parent when a strange, furry creature hatches outside his home, saying nothing but "Pio" and growing very, very quickly.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
510L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Caleb Franklin and his big brother Bobby Gene have the whole summer for adventures in the woods behind their house in Sutton, Indiana. Caleb dreams of venturing beyond their ordinary small town, but his dad likes the family to stay close to home. Then Caleb and Bobby Gene meet new neighbor Styx Malone. Styx is sixteen and oozes cool. He's been lots of different places. Styx promises Caleb and Bobby Gene that together, they can pull off the Great Escalator...
20) Fighting words
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
"Depending on an older sister who protected her when their mother went to prison and their mother's boyfriend committed a terrible act, 10-year-old Della tries to figure out what to do when her older sister attempts suicide."--
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