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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
650L
Language
English
Description
Hollis Woods has been in so many foster homes she can hardly remember them all. She even runs away from the Regans, the one family who offers her a home. When Hollis is sent to Josie, an elderly artist who is quirky and affectionate, she wants to stay. But Josie is growing more forgetful every day. If Social Services finds out, they₇ll take Hollis away and move Josie into a home. Well, Hollis Woods won₇t let anyone separate them. She₇s escaped...
3) 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: 5.8 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
950L
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Primrose, who lives in a small fishing village in British Columbia, recounts her experiences and all that she learns about human nature and the unpredictability of life in the months after her parents are lost at sea.
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Series
Language
English
Description
The #1 New York Times -bestselling author of Survivor in Death has Lieutenant Eve Dallas walking a tightrope between her professional duties and her private demons. Eve Dallas is one tough cop. She's got no problem dealing with a holiday reveler in a red suit who plunges thirty-seven stories and gives new meaning to the term "sidewalk Santa." But when she gets back to the station and Trudy Lombard shows up, it's all Eve can do to hold it together....
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
770L
Language
English
Description
In 1861, while living with his foster parents at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, twelve-year-old Mike Kelly and his best friend Todd Blakely join the Union army as drummer boys but their dreams of glory end when they experience the full horrors of war at the Battle of Wilson's Creek in Missouri.
Author
Series
Unforgettable Logan Foster volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
"Logan, an undersized twelve-year-old orphan with a photographic memory and no filter, discovers that his foster parents are superheroes in grave danger and only Logan's highly logical mind can save them"--Title verso page.
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: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 16
Lexile measure
770L
Language
English
Description
"Willow has never felt like she belonged anywhere and is convinced that the only way to find a true home is to travel the world. But her plans to act on her dream are put on hold when her aloof and often absent mother drags Willow to Salem, Massachusetts, to wrap up the affairs of an aunt Willow didn't even know she had. An aunt who may or may not have been a witch. There, she meets Mason, a loner who's always felt out of place and has been in and...
Author
Series
David Pelzer trilogy volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
720L
Language
English
Formats
Description
The author continues the story of his own child abuse, and his experiences being a foster child moving in and out of five different foster homes.
11) Runaway twin
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
740L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Thirteen-year-old Sunny, accompanied by a stray dog, takes advantage of a monetary windfall to travel from her Nebraska foster home to Enumclaw, Washington in order to find the twin sister from whom she was separated at age three.
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Series
Language
English
Description
"Lauren Gabriel spent many years of her childhood in foster homes, wishing her mother would come back for her and be the family she needs. Now twenty-years-old, she still longs for a place that she can truly call home. Her work as a cashier is unfulfilling, and at Christmas it's unbearable with the songs and carols and chatter of Christmas that she hears throughout the day. When Lauren ends her shift one night, she finds herself driving aimlessly...
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Series
Language
English
Description
Story of people who do credit to human nature. Michael O'Halloran or Mickey, all alone after his mother's death, has decided to get a dog when he discovers Peaches, a mite of a girl with a crippled back. Mickey's discipline and tender care ultimately result in a new back and a new world for Peaches.
14) The mailbox
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
790L
Language
English
Description
When twelve-year-old Gabe tries to hide his uncle's death from the local authorities, he is not prepared for what happens when this secret is discovered.
15) Middletown
Author
Language
English
Description
"Thirteen-year-old Eli likes baggy clothes, baseball caps, and one girl in particular. Her seventeen-year-old sister Anna is more traditionally feminine; she loves boys and staying out late. They are sisters ... Their dad has long been out of the picture, and their mom lives at the mercy of her next drink. When their mom lands herself in enforced rehab, Anna and Eli are left to fend for themselves. Eli and Anna have each gotten used to telling lies...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
850L
Language
English
Description
Deeply unhappy about the separation of her family because of poverty, twelve-year-old Megan gradually finds contentment and purpose in her new home on the Kansas prairie with a kind and loving adopted family.
Author
Series
David Pelzer trilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
850L
Language
English
Description
[This book] is [an] account of one of the most severe child abuse cases in California history. It is the story of Dave Pelzer, who was brutally beaten and starved by his emotionally unstable, alcoholic mother: a mother who played torturous, unpredictable games - games that left him nearly dead. He had to learn how to play his mother's games in order to survive because she no longer considered him a son, but a slave; and no longer a boy, but an "it."--Back...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
AD 920L
Language
English
Description
Revisit the hallowed halls of the Misselthwaite Manor in this new edition of the classic novel, The Secret Garden, presented with eye-catching manga-style artwork.Young Mary Lennox is left an orphan when her parents die of illness while living abroad in India. Raised primarily by servants, Mary is left to mourn the loss of her inattentive parents before eventually being sent under the care of her Uncle in Yorkshire, England. It's there in Misselthwaite...
20) Blackberry Beach
Author
Series
Hope Harbor volume 7
Language
English
Description
"Katherine Parker is on the cusp of having everything she ever wanted - fame, money, and acclaim. So why isn't she happy? In search of answers, she comes incognito to Hope Harbor on the Oregon coast for some R&R. Maybe in her secluded rental house overlooking the serene Pacific she'll be able to calm the storm inside. Coffee shop owner Zach Garrett has found his niche after a traumatic loss - and he has no plans to change the life he's created. Nor...
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