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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"...
3) 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
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
740L
Language
English
Description
The two-time Newbery Honor winner Gary D. Schmidt delivers the shattering story of Joseph, a father at thirteen, who has never seen his daughter, Jupiter. After spending time in a juvenile facility, he's placed with a foster family on a farm in rural Maine. Here Joseph, damaged and withdrawn, meets twelve-year-old Jack, who narrates the account of the troubled, passionate teen who wants to find his baby at any cost. In this riveting novel, two boys...
5) Just Lucky
Author
Lexile measure
HL 500L
Language
English
Description
"Lucky loves her grandparents, and they are all the family she really has. True, her grandma forgets things... like turning off the stove, or Lucky's name. But her grandpa takes such good care of them that Lucky doesn't realize how bad things are. That is until he's gone. When her grandma accidentally sets the kitchen on fire, Lucky can't hide what's happening any longer, and she is sent into foster care. She quickly learns that some foster families...
8) Remember me
Author
Series
Find me volume 02
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Teen hacker Wick Tate has to decide between right and wrong as she tries to solve another murder and discover the truth about her mother's suicide"--
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,...
11) 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...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
HL 700L
Language
English
Description
"After Pop is sent back to rehab, Jane Pengilly arrives at her newest foster home determined to stick to the straight and narrow and get back to her beloved dad as soon as she can. It's not the first time they've been apart, but Jane's determined it will be the last. Twelve days out in the boonies of Three Boulders makes Jane miss Pop more than ever. But as the days go by, she realizes that family is more than who you're related to--and that a home...
13) What I call life
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
700L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Placed in a group foster home, eleven-year-old Cal Lavender learns how to cope with life from the four other girls who live there and from their storytelling guardian, the Knitting Lady.
14) Toby lived here
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Toby's hope that she, her mother, and sister would be reunited on her thirteenth birthday, at the latest, is not met and she enters her teens in a foster home.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
490L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Anna, a twelve year old girl with strong survival instincts, tries to adjust to life in a Florida foster home in a strange neighborhood with an overly tidy single woman and Eb, another foster child who is not at all sure he wants to stay there.
16) Just maybe
Author
Series
Brothers series volume 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Victor and Isaac are nervous. There's a chance that their mother will be released from prison. What does this mean for their family? The brothers and their sisters could return to each other, which is all they've ever wanted. However, the boys aren't certain they can trust their mother to keep their family together for good"--Back cover.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
This appealing teen read tells the story of Katie, a teen from an abused home, and her journey through foster care. Katie is always surrounded by wealth, but feels terribly alone because of the secret horror of her angry, abusive father. When she's thrown out of her house and put into foster care, it seems like the end of the world. But as she moves through the foster care system, she begins to realize that she can help others. Can she, at last, find...
18) Arcady's goal
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
630L
Language
English
Formats
Description
When twelve-year-old Arcady is sent to a children's home after his parents are declared enemies of the state in Soviet Russia, soccer becomes a way to secure extra rations, respect, and protection but it may also be his way out if he can believe in and love another person--and himself.
19) The guardian
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
When thirteen-year-old Hunter, struggling to deal with a harsh, money-grubbing foster mother, three challenging foster sisters, and a school bully, returns to his childhood faith and prays to St. Gabriel, he instantly becomes aware that he does, indeed, have a guardian.
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