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Christmas hope series volume 11
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"In June 1972, John Creighton determines to build his wife Joan a kitchen table. His largest project to date had been picture frames but he promises to have the table ready for Thanksgiving dinner. Inspired to put something delicious on the table, Joan turns to her mother's recipes she had given to Joan when she and John married. In June 2012, Lauren Mabrey discovers she's pregnant. Gloria, Miriam, and the rest of her friends at Glory's Place begin...
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Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 8
Description
"Brian has always been anxious, whether at home or in class or on the basketball court. His dad tries to get him to stand up for himself, and his mom helps as much as she can, but after he and his brother are placed into foster care, Brian starts having panic attacks. And he doesn't know if things will ever be 'normal' again ... Ezra's always been popular. He's friends with most of the kids on his basketball team--even Brian, who usually keeps to...
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Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 11
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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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 10
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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...
87) Watch over me
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 6
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A newly graduated Mila emerges from foster care to accept a job on an isolated Northern California Coast farm where she confronts haunting memories and the traumas of her fellow residents.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 6
Description
Troubled teen Lucy Pitt struggles to fit in as a new tenant at a last-chance foster home. Brent Hartinger's second novel, a portrait of a subculture of teenagers that many people would like to forget, is as powerful and provocative as his first book, Geography Club.
92) Arcady's goal
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Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 3
Description
When twelve-year-old Arcady is sent to a children's home after his parents are declared enemies of the state in Soviet Russia, soccer becomes a way to secure extra rations, respect, and protection but it may also be his way out if he can believe in and love another person--and himself.
93) Welcome Comfort
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Pub. Date
[1999]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Welcome Comfort, a lonely foster child, is assured by his friend the school custodian that there is a Santa Claus, but he does not discover the truth until one wondrous and surprising Christmas Eve.
94) A horse to love
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Series
Keystone Stables volume 1
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 4
Description
Thirteen-year-old Skye, a troubled foster child, comes to live at Keystone Stables, a Christian home where she discovers her love for horses.
95) The grave
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Pub. Date
2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 9
Description
Thirteen-year old Tom, an unhappy foster child in Liverpool, falls into a massive open grave and is transported to Ireland in 1847, where he finds himself in the midst of the deadly potato famine.
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Series
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
"Civilized societies attempt to take care of the most vulnerable among them. This includes children who have been abused, neglected, or abandoned--who, as a result, may end up in foster care. Readers will come to a more comprehensive understanding of the types of foster care, the benefits and potential pitfalls of such care, and how to navigate within a system designed to safeguard the individuals it serves. Helpful elements that augment the text...
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Series
Orphan Train adventures volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 7
Description
After being taken in by Captain Taylor and his wife in Kansas, twelve-year-old Mike Kelly and his friend Todd Blakely join the Union army as musicians and see the horrors of war firsthand in Missouri.
98) Dirt
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 8
Description
A Horse in the House? Things are hard for eleven-year-old Yonder. Her mother died and her father has sunk into sadness. She doesn't have a friend to her name . . . except for Dirt, the Shetland pony next door. Dirt has problems of his own. He's overweight, he's always in trouble, and his owner is the mean Miss Enid, who doesn't have the patience for a pony's natural curiosity. His only friend is Yonder, the scrawny girl next door. So when Miss Enid...
99) Blizzard night
Author
Series
Disaster strikes (Marlane Kennedy) volume 3
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 2
Description
Taking a winter trip to bond with his new foster family, Jayden and his siblings Maggie and Connor are forced by a terrible car accident into a bleak storm to search for help and survive the elements.
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Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 10
Description
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.