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Introduces the people and procedures involved in foster care, and the feelings, reactions, and concerns of new foster children. Includes an afterword for caregivers. Will I live with my parents again? Will I stay with my foster parents forever? For children in foster care, the answer to many questions is often "maybe." Maybe Days addresses the questions, feelings, and concerns these children most often face. Honest and reassuring, it also provides...
5) Gossamer
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 4
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English
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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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"Love and resentment, fear and hope intersect for two sisters as their desire to help an abandoned child forces them to face their past and decide their future."--
Delia Lamont loves her job at the Portland, Maine child services agency, but her frustrations have left her burned out and restless. Ready to join her sister Juniper and start a seaside bakery, she is called in on the case of a five-year-old girl named Hayley found by the side of the road....
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"Anne and "Poppy" Rose are the average American family, with three quirky kids. Anne has a good heart and gives lost cats and dogs a home - and one day also the orphan Jane, a problem child who already tried to kill herself once. At first Poppy is worried and wants to get rid of her, but with love and patience they finally manage to integrate her into the family. Just then Anne invites another orphan, the aggressive handicapped Jimmy-John, to their...
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After a devastating loss, Noa Torson is out of options. On the run with a few other survivors, Noa is up against immeasurable obstacles. Not only is her failing health becoming more of a problem, but the corporation's insidious plans are quickly coming to fruition. And no matter where Peter and Noa try to hide, they are inevitably found. The group is outnumbered, outsmarted, and outrun. But they are not giving up. As they make their way across the...
10) Raven's Gate
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Gatekeepers volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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Sent to live in a foster home in a remote Yorkshire village, Matt, a troubled fourteen-year-old English boy, uncovers an evil plot involving witchcraft and the site of an ancient stone circle.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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"Red's inexplicable power over the wind comes from her mother. Whenever Ruby "Red" Byrd is scared or angry, the wind picks up. And being placed in foster care, moving from family to family, tends to keep her skies stormy. Red knows she has to learn to control it, but can't figure out how. This time, the wind blows Red into the home of the Grooves, a quirky couple who run a petting zoo, complete with a dancing donkey and a giant tortoise. With their...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
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English
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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.
13) Touch blue
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 5
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English
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When the state of Maine threatens to shut down their island's one-room schoolhouse because of dwindling enrollment, eleven-year-old Tess, a strong believer in luck, and her family take in a trumpet-playing foster child, to increase the school's population.
14) Where I belong
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 7
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English
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"Eleven-year-old Brendan Doyle doesn't get along with his foster mother, he's failing fifth grade, and he's bullied mercilessly by a band of boys in his class. Then Brendan meets two potential friends--an eccentric old man and a girl from summer school--and he sees that there may be hope for him after all"--
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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The morning after her eighteenth birthday, Andrea McNulty wakes up in a motel room, covered in blood and unable to remember what happened the previous night, only to discover that her parents were brutally attacked and she is the main suspect.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
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English
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When fifteen-year-old Cathy decides to carpool from Norwalk to tony Greenwich, Connecticut, to study Latin in summer school, she does not expect the shocking events that occured five years earlier to suddenly come flooding back into her relatively settled life.
19) In Another Life
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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Told in two voices, high school seniors Chloe Holden and Cash Colton try to determine if she is his foster mother's daughter, Emily, who was kidnapped at age three.
20) Fast break
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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Since his mother's death, Jayson, twelve, has focused on basketball and surviving but he is found out and placed with an affluent foster family of a different race, and must learn to accept many changes, including facing his former teammates in a championship game.
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