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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
810L
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English
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Ashley spent nine years in foster care after being taken away from her mother. She endured many caseworkers, moving from school to school and manipulative, humiliating and abusive treatment from one foster family. See how she survives and eventually thrives against the odds.
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Keystone Stables volume 8
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
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English
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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.
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English
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The startling and ultimately uplifting narrative of one woman's thirteen-year experience as a foster parent.
For more than a decade, Kathy Harrison has sheltered a shifting cast of troubled youngsters-the offspring of prostitutes and addicts; the sons and daughters of abusers; and teenage parents who aren't equipped for parenthood. All this, in addition to raising her three biological sons and two adopted daughters. What would motivate someone to...
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Pub. Date
2018.
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English
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The true story of 2 year-old Anna, abandoned by her natural parents, left alone in a neglected orphanage. Elaine and Ian had traveled half way round the world to adopt little Anna. She couldn't have been more wanted, loved and cherished. So why was she now in foster care and living with me? It didn't make sense. Until I learned what had happened. ... Dressed only in nappies and ragged T-shirts the children were incarcerated in their cots. Their large...
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"When Casey first meets Kiera, she immediately senses something's wrong. Something in Kiera's eyes alerts Casey that this is an “old head on young shoulders”, and with Kiera's constant tiredness and self-soothing habit of pulling her hair out, she follows her instinct and takes Kiera under her wing. At first the answer seems simple enough; Kiera's parents aren't together and they don't get on, which makes life hard for Kiera as she's so close...
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Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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"It was heartbreaking: a brother and sister, torn from their parents and brought into foster care. Kit, eighteen months old, had a broken arm and his sister Molly, three, was withdrawn and scared. The parents said they weren't to blame and appeared to dote on their children. Could the social services have got it wrong? If so, who caused Kit's injuries and why were the children ill so often? The truth, when it finally came out, was unbelievable...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
980L
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English
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"Anne Shirley is grown up, has married her beloved Gilbert and now is the mother of six mischievous children. These boys and girls discover a special place all their own, but they never dream of what will happen when the strangest family moves into an old nearby mansion. The Meredith clan is two boys and two girls, with minister father but no mother -- and a runaway girl named Mary Vance. Soon the Meredith kids join Anne's children in their private...
10) Etched in sand: a true story of five siblings who survived an unspeakable childhood on Long Island
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Calcaterra and her siblings endured a series of foster homes and intermittent homelessness in the shadow of the Hamptons. 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.
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English
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Cathy is worried as soon as Jade arrives: she's never looked after a pregnant teenager before, but none of the mother and baby carers are free, and-- seventeen years old, seven months pregnant and homeless--Jade is in a desperate situation. But Jade's behaviour gives Cathy cause for concern straight away. She doesn't want to listen--and it isn't long before Jade is in trouble with the police as well. Cathy knows that Jade loves her daughter Courtney...
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Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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Based on a true story, The Forgotten Child is a heart-breaking memoir of an abandoned newborn baby left to die, his tempestuous upbringing, and how he came through the other side. It's a freezing winter's night in 1954. A baby boy, a few hours old, is left by his mother, wrapped in nothing but two sheets of newspaper and hidden amongst the undergrowth by a canal bank. An hour later, a late-shift postman is walking wearily home when he hears a faint...
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