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81) 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...
82) The wrong girl
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Award-winning and Boston Globe bestselling author Hank Phillippi Ryan presents a spine-chilling, heart-wrenching suspense novel that explores a terrifying scenario striking at the heart of every family. Does a respected adoption agency have a frightening secret? Tipped off by a determined ex-colleague on a desperate quest to find her birth mother, Boston newspaper reporter Jane Ryland begins to suspect that the agency is engaging in the ultimate...
83) 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"--
84) Come fall
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
510L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Drawn together by a mentoring program and an unusual crow, middle school misfits Salman, Lu, and Blos form a strong friendship despite teasing by fellow students and the maneuverings of fairies Oberon, Titania, and Puck.
Author
Language
English
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Description
Foster care and adoption can be rewarding ways to become parents. But the system itself seems almost rigged for failure, confusion, fraud, and disappointment. This book takes readers on an insider's tour of the system, its successes and failures, and the joys adoption can bring through the real stories of those involved on all sides.
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
Description
"Cassie Everson is an expert at escaping bad first dates. And, after years of meeting, greeting, and running from the men who try to woo her, Cassie is almost ready to retire her hopes for a husband-and children-altogether. But fate has other plans, and Cassie's online dating profile catches the eye of firefighter Jett Bentley. In Jett's memory, Cassie Everson is the unreachable girl-of-legend from their high school days. Nervously, he messages her,...
Author
Language
English
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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,...
91) Mountain dog
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
1050L
Language
English
Description
When his mother is sent to jail in Los Angeles, eleven-year-old Tony goes to live with his forest ranger great-uncle in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, where Tony experiences unconditional love for the first time through his friendship with a rescue dog.
Author
Series
Coming home to Ruby Prairie volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
A widow without children soon has a houseful of plans gone awry when she decides to open a home for troubled girls in a sweet little town, and she is about to learn that the citizens are not about to leave this newcomer and her dear girls alone.
93) 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...
95) Plenty good room
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Cheri Paris Edwards is a child welfare advocate. Her first novel, Plenty Good Room, is hailed as "promising" by Publishers Weekly and "a superb debut" by Booklist. Thirtysomething Tamara Britton has a comfortable life working as a caseworker in the Care For Kids Agency. But, her world is turned upside down when she agrees to become a foster parent for a seriously rebellious teenager, Sienna Larson. Together they discover their faith and find there's...
Author
Series
Cowboys of Decker Ranch volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"After a serious injury ends his career, rodeo cowboy Ridge Cooper needs something new to look forward to. Trapped at his family's Wyoming ranch and desperate to find a new outlet, Ridge offers to teach rodeo skills to the kids at Phoenix House, a local group home for foster children. When he meets Sierra Dunn, an inner-city social worker who's been assigned to the remote ranch for blowing the whistle on her boss, Ridge knows the two of them can give...
97) 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
Series
Letters to the Lost volume 02
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
HL 480L
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Rev Fletcher and Emma Blue meet, they both long to share secrets, his of being abused by his birth father, hers of her parents' failing marriage and an online troll who truly frightens her.
99) 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.
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...
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