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Publisher
Distributed by VCI Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
Full screen edition.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A modern day ghost story for the whole family! Teenager James Greville has lived in children's homes his whole life, so he is surprised when a Great Uncle invites him to his English country manor for a holiday. He spends most of his time alone exploring the sprawling Greville Lodge and soon discovers that the Lodge has many secrets, including doors to the west wing which have been sealed shut. One night James wakes up to find himself in front of one...
Author
Publisher
Vanguard Press
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
x, 323 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
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Description
Separated in childhood and sent to foster homes after their neglectful mother's imprisonment, sisters Lindsay and Kerrie Ann are reunited in adulthood and help each other through the fiercest battles of their lives despite their differences.
43) Otto and Pio
Author
Publisher
Princeton Architectural Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
Otto the squirrel reluctantly becomes a foster parent when a strange, furry creature hatches outside his home, saying nothing but "Pio" and growing very, very quickly.
44) Just like a mama
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
Carol Olivia Clementine wishes her parents did not live so far away, but Mama Rose provides a home, loves her, and cares for her just like a mother would.
Author
Series
Enchanter's child volume 1
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 11
Physical Desc
1 volume ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Alex has a set of Enchanted cards. When she flutters her fingers above them, something magical happens: the cards come alive and create moving pictures of what is now and what is yet to come. But Enchantment is illegal in the city of Luma, and those who practice it are imprisoned forever in the Vaults-dark dungeons deep below the city. When Alex is betrayed by her foster sister Zerra, she knows she is in great danger. With the help of her little...
46) First dog
Publisher
Gaiam Americas, Inc
Pub. Date
[2011]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (97 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A foster boy is befriended by Teddy, a lost dog, who just happens to belong to the President of the United States, but nobody believes him. To prove his doubters wrong, they begin an amazing adventure across America to return the 'First Dog' to the White House.
Author
Publisher
Wendy Lamb Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
510L
Physical Desc
304 pages cm
Language
English
Description
Caleb Franklin and his younger brother, Bobby Gene, spend an extraordinary summer with their new, older neighbor, Styx Malone, a foster boy from the city.
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
viii, 336 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"During a terrible heat wave in 1991--the worst in a decade--ten-year-old Anton has been locked in an apartment in the projects, alone, for seven days, without air conditioning or a fan. With no electricity, the refrigerator and lights do not work. Hot, hungry, and desperate, Anton shatters a window and climbs out. Cutting his leg on the broken glass, he is covered in blood when the police find him. Juanita, his mother, is discovered in a crack house...
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First Gallery Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
xxi, 304 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Rob Henderson, a doctoral candidate in social psychology at Cambridge, reflects on his childhood in foster care, how he narrowly escaped a broken system, and the only hope for disenfranchised kids across America: family"--
Author
Publisher
Atheneum
Pub. Date
c2008
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 12
Physical Desc
304 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Ashley spent nine years in foster care after being taken away from her mother. She endured many caseworkers, moving from school to school and manipulative, humiliating and abusive treatment from one foster family. See how she survives and eventually thrives against the odds.
Author
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 11
Physical Desc
378 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
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...
53) Hotel for dogs
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
1 DVD (100 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Foster children Andi and Bruce have been placed with a flaky couple who care more for their aspiring rock careers than their charges. Their mischievous tendencies repeatedly get them into trouble. After a close call with the local pound, the kids end up searching for Friday, their secretly adopted dog, in an abandoned old hotel where they find several other stray dogs seeking shelter. They, along with three other local kids, begin caring for the strays....
55) The risk of us
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
200 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"A poignant, dazzling debut novel about a woman who longs to be a mother and the captivating yet troubled child she and her husband take in"--
Author
Publisher
Akashic Books
Pub. Date
[2018].
Physical Desc
165 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm
Language
English
Description
When three children in a Catholic group home are brutally murdered, the survivors are hurried into separate foster homes across Long Island. Robin Hills, a fifteen-year-old who has spent the past several years under religious care, is thrust into a new, dysfunctional family with no spiritual beliefs. No longer protected by the religion and the nun she had come to love, Robin is completely alone and enveloped in fear. As the murders continue and Robin...
Author
Series
Publisher
ABC-CLIO
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
xix, 292 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In a 1988 address dedicating May as National Foster Care Month, President Ronald Reagan emphasized that "the family is the indispensable foundation of society; at its best, it performs tasks that no other entity can hope to duplicate." All members of an immediate and extended family are important, but parents are especially essential as they bear the primary responsibility for children's physical, emotional, psychological, and social development....
59) Foster families
Author
Publisher
Mason Crest Publishers
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
64 p. : col. ill. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Explores the history of foster care, describes the reasons children enter foster care, and discusses foster parents, caseworkers, and the conditions in foster homes.
Author
Publisher
Park Row Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
298 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Unable to remember her life before foster care, a teen anxious to rescue her newborn from an oppressive matriarch studies the properties of a powerful but addictive plant behind the foster family's business.
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