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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
550L
Language
English
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A gifted and accomplished storyteller returns with a powerful and timely novel of a troubled foster teenager. Simultaneously wrenching and deeply humorous, wholly contemporary yet steeped in American history, "Flight" is irrepressible, fearless, and groundbreaking.
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New to Stoney Ridge, schoolteacher Mollie has come to town for a fresh start. When Luke Schrock, new to his role as deacon, asks the church to take in foster girls from a group home, she's the first to raise her hand. The power of love, she believes, can pick up the dropped stitches in a child's heart and knit them back together. The 11-year-old twins she takes in bring her sleepless nights and police visits... and then the girls accuse Mollie of...
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"When five-year-old Boone Harrington witnesses his father’s murder, he is placed in social worker Lucy Taylor’s care for the holidays. But after someone chases Lucy’s car off the road in Sumter National Forest, she and Boone turn to ranger Noah Holt for protection from a gang of ruthless gun traffickers. Can Noah keep them alive…especially after discovering Boone unknowingly has something these criminals will kill for?"--
6) City spies
Author
Series
City spies volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
750L
Language
English
Description
"Sara Martinez is facing years in the juvenile detention system for hacking into the foster care computer system to prove that her foster parents are crooks. But then she gets a second chance when a mysterious man offers her a chance to join a group of MI6 affiliated spies"--
7) The pinballs
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
600L
Language
English
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Description
Three lonely foster children learn to care about themselves and each other.
9) Unstoppable
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
730L
Language
English
Description
"If anyone understands the phrase 'tough luck,' it's Harrison. As a foster kid in a cruel home, he knows his dream of one day playing for the NFL is a long shot. Then Harrison's luck seems to change. He is brought into a new home with kind, loving parents--his new dad is even a football coach. Harrison's big build and his incredible determination quickly make him a star running back on the junior high school team. In no time, he's practically unstoppable....
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English
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"Amber Nicholls, Lachlan McCarthy, and Raffaele Wright would normally have absolutely nothing in common. But growing up as foster kids in Teddy's seaside home along the Cornish coast has forged a bond tighter than Gorilla glue. Each of them have their own messes in life to deal with, but Teddy's big news is the cherry on top. Teddy's gone on a vacation cruise around the Mediterranean and met the woman of his dreams. The only problem for his loyal-to-a-fault...
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Publisher
Candlewick Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
550L
Language
English
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Description
Secretly providing for himself and a beloved grandfather who is succumbing to dementia, young Arlo is placed in the care of a social worker and runs away to find and connect with his only other family member.
12) Fighting words
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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"Ten-tear-old Della has always had her older sister, Suki: When their mom went to prison, Della had Suki. When their mom's boyfriend took them in, Della had Suki. When that same boyfriend did something so awful they had to run fast, Della had Suki. Suki is Della's own wolf--her protector. But who has been protecting Suki?" -- Amazon.
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"When his foster children’s biological father attempts to abduct them at gunpoint, Sheriff Brent Fox’s only priority is the kids’ safety. And now caseworker Carly Engelman is next on the man’s hit list, and it’s up to Brent to guard her, too. But when their location is compromised, can Brent protect Carly and the kids…before he loses his chance to become a father?"
14) What I carry
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Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
HL 690L
Language
English
Description
"In her final year in foster care, seventeen-year-old Muir tries to survive her senior year before aging out of the system"--
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English
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Fatherhood wasn't what Bradley Ainsworth expected to find at Henny House. The run-down Victorian is his best shot at proving himself as a historic renovator, but the new owner has no interest in recreating the past. Claire Woodbury and her foster daughter, Emily, are focused on the future--until everyone learns that Emily is Bradley's daughter. Does that future have room for him as a father...and more?
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English
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Disaster, Melanie Barrick was once told, is always closer than you know. It was a lesson she learned the hard way growing up in the constant upheaval of foster care. But now that she's survived into adulthood--with a loving husband, a steady job, and a beautiful baby boy named Alex--she thought that turmoil was behind her. Until one Tuesday evening when she goes to pick up Alex from childcare only to discover he's been removed by Social Services....
17) Golden Gate
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Series
City spies volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
780L
Language
English
Description
"After thwarting a notorious villain at an eco-summit in Paris, the City Spies are gearing up for their next mission. Operating out of a base in Scotland, this secret team of young agents working for the British Secret Intelligence Service's MI6 division have honed their unique skills, such as sleight of hand, breaking and entering, observation, and explosives. All of these allow them to go places in the world of espionage where adults can't."--Provided...
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2009.
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English
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Left in the cold care of a loveless foster family and alienated at school, Sarah Crane finds a kindred spirit in classmate Nick Dunnigan, a former mental patient still plagued by voices and visions. And in eccentric art instructor Bettina Phillips who is eager to mentor Sarah's artistic talent. But within the walls of Bettina's ancestral home, Sarah finds something altogether different and disturbing--a gateway from the grave into the world of the...
19) Runner
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Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Chicago in the dead of winter can be brutal, especially when you're scouring the frigid streets for a missing girl. Fifteen-year-old Ramona Titus has run away from her foster home. Her biological mother, Leesa Evans, is a recovering addict who admits she failed Ramona often in the past. But now she's clean. And she's determined to make up for her mistakes-if Cass can only help her find her daughter...Ramona is holding secrets dark enough to kill...
20) The runaway
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Publisher
Redhook Books/Orbit
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
The search for a teenage runaway sends her foster mother, a psychologist working for the LAPD, on a dangerous journey through Los Angeles' criminal underworld, in this gripping new thriller by the author of the international bestseller Baby Doll.
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