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Freak
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Marcella Fleischman Pixley |
Twelve-year-old Miriam, poetic, smart, and quirky, is considered a freak by the popular girls at her middle school, and she eventually explodes in response to their bullying, revealing an inner stren… |
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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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Compromised
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Heidi Ayarbe |
With her con-man father in prison, fifteen-year-old Maya sets out from Reno, Nevada, for Boise, Idaho, hoping to stay out of foster care by finding an aunt she never knew existed, but a fellow runawa… |
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My name is Mike Trumsky
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Ruth Piepgras |
Mike, a foster child, tries to figure out his identity after not hearing from his real mother for a long time. |
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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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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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Leo and the Lesser Lion
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Sandra Forrester |
In Depression-era Alabama, twelve-year-old Mary Bayliss Pettigrew struggles to understand why her beloved older brother, Leo, died and whether she, miraculously, lived for some special purpose. |
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Bronxwood
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Coe Booth |
Tyrell’s father is just out of jail, and Tyrell doesn’t know how to deal with that. It’s bad enough that his brother Troy is in foster care and his mother is no help whatsoever. Now there’s another t… |
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Dead Girl Moon
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Charlie Price |
Grace, a scheming runaway, JJ, her fostercare sister, and Mick, the son of a petty thief, become entangled in the investigation of a teen prostitute's murder in a small, corrupt Montana town. |
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Truth and lies
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Norah McClintock |
"Mike's lies are spinning out of control and now he's the number-one suspect in a murder. Okay, so he can't explain his bruised and skinned knuckles, and he can't explain why he was spotted near the … |
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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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Gossamer
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Anne Twomey,Lois Lowry |
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. |
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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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Adam and Eve and Pinch-Me
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Julie Johnston |
Fifteen-year-old Sara Moone, abandonded at birth and shunted from one foster home to another, finds that she cannot remain aloof from her latest family. |
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The story of Tracy Beaker
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Jacqueline Wilson,Nick Sharratt |
'I'm Tracy Beaker. This is a book all about me. I'd read it if I were you. It's the most incredible dynamic heart-rending story. Honest.'
Tracy is ten years old. She lives in a Children's Home but… |
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Long Way Home
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Michael Morpurgo |
Twelve-year-old George is sent to his seventh foster home, down on the Dyers' farm this time. He's dreading it. He bitterly used to the routine: getting stared at, feeling different, all the question… |
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Rainbow Jordan
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Alice Childress |
Her mother, her foster guardian, and 14-year-old Rainbow comment on the state of things as she prepares to return to a foster home for yet another stay |
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What I call life
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Jill Wolfson |
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. |
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Anne of Green Gables
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Lucy Maud Montgomery |
The books recounts Anne's adventures in making a home.
Anne, a young orphan from the fictional community of Bolingbroke, Nova Scotia (based upon the real community of New London), is sent to Prince … |
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Train to Somewhere
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Ronald Himler,Eve Bunting |
In the late 1800s, Marianne travels westward on the Orphan Train in hopes of being placed with a caring family. |
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