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House of Tomorrow
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Claire Lorrimer |
This is the moving story of Jeanette Roberts, a young London girl who survived appalling abuse in her own childhood, and so determined to give other children in the same position the love and care sh… |
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Boardroom bride and groom
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Shirley Jump |
For gorgeous lawyer Nick Gilbert, an after-hours rendezvous with a woman usually means a romantic dinner, not a children's charity picnic. But he's game! Especially as his date is his rather prim but… |
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Conceiving in the heart
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Deana Coreen Kastello |
Collection of stories about the children who were in the author's foster care, with discussion of adoption. |
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Success as a foster parent
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National Foster Parent Association. |
Change a child’s life!Reap the rewards of becoming a foster parent.Over 600,000 American children are in the foster care system each year—and the number is growing. So is the number of good-hearted p… |
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Hetty Feather
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Jacqueline Wilson |
A wonderful and original Jacqueline Wilson novel, featuring Hetty Feather(who is a bitch), a Victorian Tracy Beaker!London, 1876 and Hetty Feather is just a tiny baby when her mother leaves her at th… |
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Hidden
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Cathy Glass |
From the author of Number One bestseller 'Damaged' comes the poignant and shocking memoir of Cathy's recent relationship with Tayo, a young boy she fosters whose good behaviour and polite manners hid… |
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The Lying Game
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Sara Shepard |
I had a life anyone would kill for.
Then someone did.
The worst part of being dead is that there's nothing left to live for. No more kisses. No more secrets. No more gossip. It's enough to kill… |
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Family ever after
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Margaret Daley |
Three foster kids fall into Noah Maxwell's lap and turns his life upside down. The successful businessman knows nothing about children, so he hires single mom Cara Winters to help care for his new br… |
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Perro Rabioso
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Dandi Daley Mackall |
Rex and the other shelter dogs at Starlight Animal Rescue try to help an angry fourteen-year-old boy who is devastated by his mother's rejection and drug addiction. |
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Home to Crossroads Ranch
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Linda Goodnight |
Finally, Rainy Jernagen has the child-filled home she's always wanted! Okay, so she still hasn't found Mr. Right, but the foster kids she's taken in fill her heart almost completely. Then handyman/ra… |
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Geek girl
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Cindy C. Bennett |
Jen, a teenaged foster child and social outcast, makes a bet with her friends that she can turn Trevor, a straight-A student and self-avowed "geek", into a social outcast like herself, but quickly fi… |
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A wish and a prayer
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Jayne Ann Krentz |
"Anyone worried that life in a small town could get boring certainly hasn't lived in Henry Adams: With a pig on trial, the town's foster children still trying to find their place, and new love blosso… |
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The panopticon
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Jenni Fagan |
Like everyone else in the Panopticon, 15-year-old Anais Hendricks has been in and out of foster care practically since birth. "[B]orn in a nuthouse to nobody that was ever seen again," she had her on… |
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Lifesaving lessons
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Linda Greenlaw |
"Famed swordfish boat captain Linda Greenlaw faces her greatest battle with nature--a newly adopted teenage daughter Linda Greenlaw isn't a woman who shies away from a challenge--a nationally renow… |
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The promise of home
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Kathryn Springer |
As temporary guardian of her sister's two children, big-city magazine columnist Jenna Gardner is forced to face her past. She isn't in Mirror Lake for long before she realizes that everything has cha… |
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Foster care odyssey
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Theresa Cameron |
Abandoned by her teenage mother in 1954 to a overwhelmingly white charity organization so begins Theresa's life as a 'ward of the state' of New York. She shares the heartbreaking struggle to survive … |
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Bike thief
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Rita Feutl |
"Nick just wants to replace the TV his sister accidentally broke before their foster parents find out. To repay the debt, the sixteen-year-old has to steal bikes, break them down and rebuild them to … |
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Breathing fire
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Sarah Tsiang |
When Ally's mom dies, Ally is left with no family, no friends and no future. Put into foster care at the age of fifteen, she has less than $200 to her name and nothing left to lose. When Ally meets T… |
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Mine for a year
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Susan Kuklin |
Text and illustrations describe a foster child's year spent socializing a puppy destined to be trained as a dog guide for a blind person. |
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Her unforgettable cowboy
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Debra Clopton |
"Everyone in Dew Drop, Texas, is thrilled that Jolie Sheridan has returned to Sunrise Ranch. Everyone except Morgan McDermott. Eight years ago, Jolie left the ranch--and Morgan--for a career as a com… |
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