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1) Gossamer
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
660L
Language
English
Description
"Littlest One is a tiny creature slowly learning her job of giving dreams to humans. Each night she and her teacher visit an old woman's home where they softly touch beloved objects, gathering happy memories and drops of old scents and sounds. Littlest One pieces these bits together and presents them to her sleeping human in the form of pleasant dreams. But the dreaded Sinisteeds, dark, fearsome creatures that plague their victims with nightmares,...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
910L
Language
English
Formats
Description
A group of foster children build a home of their own.
A ghost saved twelve-year-old Maddie's life when she was an infant, her Granny Lane claims, so Maddie must always remember that she is special. But it's hard to feel special when you've spent your life shuffled from one foster home to another. And now that she's at the East Tennessee Children's Home, Maddie feels even less special. She longs for a place to call home. She even has a "book of houses"...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
570L
Language
English
Description
Having shared so many foster homes that they are unable to trust that the family that has adopted them will last, Flora and her brother, Julian, are assisted by their new mother on a journey to resolve their past so they can build a future.
5) Touch blue
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
750L
Language
English
Description
When the state of Maine threatens to shut down their island's one-room schoolhouse because of dwindling enrollment, eleven-year-old Tess, a strong believer in luck, and her family take in a trumpet-playing foster child, to increase the school's population.
Author
Series
Keystone Stables volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
Thirteen-year-old Skye, a troubled foster child, comes to live at Keystone Stables, a Christian home where she discovers her love for horses.
7) 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.
8) Raven's gate
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
620L
Language
English
Description
"When Matt Freeman gets into trouble with the police, he's sent to be fostered in Yorkshire. It's not long before he senses there's something wrong with his guardian, and the entire village. Then Matt learns about the Old Ones and begins to understand just how he is different. But no one will believe him, and no one can help." --
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
"Brian has always been anxious, whether at home or in class or on the basketball court. His dad tries to get him to stand up for himself, and his mom helps as much as she can, but after he and his brother are placed into foster care, Brian starts having panic attacks. And he doesn't know if things will ever be 'normal' again ... Ezra's always been popular. He's friends with most of the kids on his basketball team--even Brian, who usually keeps to...
Author
Series
Keystone Stables volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
The love of her foster parents, her friend Morgan, and her own devotion to the horses and dogs at Keystone Stables help Skye become a Christian and to, in turn, find a way to help her troubled friend Sooze.
11) Whispering hope
Author
Series
Keystone Stables volume 7
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
When a wild pinto mustang, Rebel, and an equally wild new foster girl, Wanda, arrive at Keystone Stables, Skye feels God urging her to reach out and help them, whether they want her to or not.
Author
Series
Keystone Stables volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Skye and Morgan have their hands full trying to share friendship and God's love with Tanya, a new foster child in the Chambers' household, who is a veteran shoplifter and a runaway but who shows surprising devotion to a mare and her foal.
Author
Series
Keystone Stables volume 8
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
Thirteen-year-old Skye, who lives at Keystone Stables with her foster parents and wheelchair-bound foster sister, has been wondering about her real parents, and, with God's help, she is finally able to meet them.
14) The maze
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
720L
Language
English
Description
Rick, a fourteen-year-old foster child, escapes from a juvenile detention facility near Las Vegas and travels to Canyonlands National Park in Utah where he meets a bird biologist working on a project to reintroduce condors to the wild.
15) Dead and gone
Author
Series
Mike and Riel mysteries volume 3
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
640L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A shallow grave... human remains... an unsolved murder from years ago... It looks like the past is coming back to spin Mike's new life out of control. What's making the usually cool Riel so rattled? And what does a beautiful but manipulative girl have to do with it all?"--
16) Small mercies
Author
Lexile measure
820L
Language
English
Formats
Description
When social workers begin to scrutinize Mercy's homelife in modern-day Pietermartizburg, she uses life lessons taught to her by Mr. Singh to stand up for herself and her eccentric foster aunts.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
670L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Stranded for a year on the ground, after a crash landing from her broom, a little witch is taken in by the Doon family, a situation which causes compromises on both sides, many happy times, and ultimately a big change for the little witch.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
740L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Eleven-year-old Termite, a foster child with an eye for the beauty of nature and a talent for getting into trouble, takes on the loggers in her new home town when she tries to save the biggest tree in the forest.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In this heartfelt story from the bestselling author of My Mouth is a Volcano!, Foster meets new friends and a kind foster mom who help him navigate the fears and feelings associated with going into foster care. Foster has lived with his mom and "sometimes dad" all of his life ... until now. And like so many others entering foster care, he has more questions than answers and so many new feelings to deal with. Written in an honest, approachable way,...
20) Taken away
Author
Series
Brothers series volume 1
Lexile measure
500L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Victor, Isaac, Vanessa, and Sara have been taken away from their mother. They've been forced to leave behind their home, school, friends, and worst of all--each other. Vanessa and Sara have been placed in the same foster home, but Victor and Isaac have been separated from their younger siblings and each other. As Victor and Isaac grapple with the many challenges of their new lives, they try to keep in touch through email. But will their messages be...
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