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Author
Publisher
Wendy Lamb/Dell Yearling
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Newbery Honor Book: 2003.
A troublesome twelve-year-old orphan, staying with an elderly artist who needs her, remembers the only other time she was happy in a foster home, with a family that truly seemed to care about her.
Author
Publisher
Putnam's
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Through letters to his little sister, who is living in a different foster home, sixth-grader Lonnie, also known as "Locomotion," keeps a record of their lives while they are apart, describing his own foster family, including his foster brother who returns home after losing a leg in the Iraq War.
4) The maze
Author
Publisher
Morrow Junior
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.
6) The mailbox
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
When twelve-year-old Gabe tries to hide his uncle's death from the local authorities, he is not prepared for what happens when this secret is discovered.
Author
Series
Keystone Stables volume 8
Publisher
Zonderkidz
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Skye, who lives at Keystone Stables with her foster parents and wheelchair-bound foster sister, has been wondering about her real parents, and, with God's help, she is finally able to meet them.
Author
Series
Keystone Stables volume 7
Publisher
Zonderkidz
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
When a wild pinto mustang, Rebel, and an equally wild new foster girl, Wanda, arrive at Keystone Stables, Skye feels God urging her to reach out and help them, whether they want her to or not.
Author
Series
Keystone Stables volume 6
Publisher
Zonderkidz
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
One of the special-needs children riding horses at Keystone Stables during the summer has Down syndrome and when his affection for Skye embarrasses her, she begins to treat him harshly.
Author
Series
Keystone Stables volume 5
Publisher
Zonderkidz
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Although Skye has looked forward to teaching Katie, a blind camper, about riding and handling horses, Katie's bitterness over being blind and her parents' upcoming divorce challenge Skye's ability to teach and to share God's love.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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Description
"Eleven-year-old Perry was born and raised by his mom at the Blue River Co-ed Correctional Facility in tiny Surprise, Nebraska. His mom is a resident on Cell Block C, and so far Warden Daugherty has made it possible for them to be together. That is, until a new district attorney discovers the truth--and Perry is removed from the facility and forced into a foster home. When Perry moves to the "outside" world, he feels trapped. Desperate to be reunited...
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