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Breakout
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Paul Fleischman |
A young woman presents a play based on her life as a seventeen-year-old runaway whose escape from her foster home in Los Angeles is thwarted by an all-day traffic jam, an event which provides time fo… |
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Kinda Like Brothers
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Coe Booth |
When his mother takes in a twelve-year-old foster boy, Jarrett is forced to share his room and his friends with the new boy. |
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Out of the deep
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Gloria Skurzynski |
Jack, Ashley, and their unreliable new foster sister set out to solve the mystery of why whales are beaching themselves at Acadia National Park. While investigating mysterious strandings of whales in… |
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Remember me
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Romily Bernard |
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. |
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Where I belong
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Mary Downing Hahn |
Alienated, bullied, a classic underachiever, 12-year-old Brendan retreats into his fantasy world and then faces the long and demanding journey to a real world where he belongs.
Brendan doesn't get a… |
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Orbiting Jupiter
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Gary D. Schmidt |
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.… |
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Twisted
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Hannah Jayne |
Bex is ready to start a new life in foster care. There, she won't be known as a serial killer's daughter. Though her father was never tried for the murders attributed to "The Wife Collector," he disa… |
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Danger at Lakeside Farm
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Patricia H. Rushford |
When Max becomes the foster child of an elderly woman who grows and makes foods and crafts from lavender, Jessie, still recovering from her bone marrow transplant, not only helps with the business, s… |
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Nightwalkers
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Judy K. Morris |
After a school trip to the Washington zoo, ten-year-old James becomes so attached to Daisy, an orphaned African elephant, that he jeopardizes his placement in a new foster home to accompany her on se… |
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Tin Can Tucker
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Lynn Hall |
A sixteen-year old girl runs away from her foster home in Missouri, planning to make a name for herself on the rodeo circuit. |
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Little soldier
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Bernard Ashley |
Taken from Africa to a foster home in London after his family is killed by an enemy tribe, Kaninda discovers the meaning of hate and the value of not hating. |
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The Door of No Return
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Sarah Mussi |
Zac is devastated when his grandfather is killed by muggers. Dumped with foster parents, then in a home, Zac stumbles from trouble to trouble, but the one thing he hangs on to is Pops' obsession with… |
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Won't know till I get there
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Walter Dean Myers |
When Steve's parents decide to adopt a foster child, it seems like a good idea. And when Steve decides to show the new kid how tough he is by spray-painting the side of a subway car, that seems like … |
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