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1) Gossamer
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
While learning to bestow dreams, a young dream giver tries to save an eight-year-old boy from the effects of both his abusive past and the nightmares inflicted on him by the frightening Sinisteeds.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
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.
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Welcome Comfort, a lonely foster child, is assured by his friend the school custodian that there is a Santa Claus, but he does not discover the truth until one wondrous and surprising Christmas Eve.
Author
Publisher
Harper Perennial
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
A young widow raising two boys, Sarah Laden is struggling to keep her family together. But when a shocking revelation rips apart the family of her closest friend, Sarah finds herself welcoming yet another troubled young boy into her already tumultuous life. Jordan, a quiet, reclusive elementary school classmate of Sarah's son Danny, has survived a terrible ordeal. By agreeing to become Jordan's foster mother, Sarah will be forced to question the things...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Jack, 12, tells the gripping story of Joseph, 14, who joins his family as a foster child. Damaged in prison, Joseph wants nothing more than to find his baby daughter, Jupiter, whom he has never seen. When Joseph has begun to believe he'll have a future, he is confronted by demons from his past that force a tragic sacrifice"--
10) The maze
Author
Publisher
Morrow Junior Books
Pub. Date
c1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
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.
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
Eleven-year-old Primrose living 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.
12) Ball don't lie
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Sticky lives for basketball and plays at school and at the Lincoln Rec Center in Los Angeles but he is unaware of the many dangers--including his own past--that threaten his dream of playing professionally.
14) Find me
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
When teen hacker and foster child Wick Tate finds a dead classmate's diary on her front step, with a note reading "Find me," she sets off on a perverse game of hide-and-seek to catch the killer.
15) Valley of death
Author
Publisher
National Geographic Society
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
The Landon family makes a trip to Death Valley National Park accompanied by a mysterious new foster child, fourteen-year-old Leesa Sherman.
16) Three pennies
Author
Publisher
Anthenum
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Referring to the I-Ching and a trio of good-luck pennies whenever she is bounced to a new foster home, Marin finds herself in a place that feels like a forever home while trying to find her birth mother, before receiving unwelcome news.
17) Over the edge
Author
Publisher
National Geographic Society
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
While she studies condors in the Grand Canyon a scientist's life is threatened, and the strange, hostile, teenage computer whiz in her family's foster care might be involved.
18) Out of the deep
Author
Publisher
National Geographic Society
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Jack, Ashley, and their unreliable new foster sister set out to solve the mystery of why whales are beaching themselves at Acadia National Park.
19) Running scared
Author
Publisher
National Geographic Society
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
While lost in a tunnel at Carlsbad Cavern, thirteen-year-old Jack, eleven-year-old Ashley, and their eight-year-old foster brother, Sam, think bats and darkness are their worst problems, until they stumble across thieves.
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 10
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 that they can build a future.
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