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Author
Series
Keystone Stables volume 1
Publisher
Zonderkidz
Pub. Date
2009.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
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.
4) Raven's gate
Author
Series
Gatekeepers (Anthony Horowitz) volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2005.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
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.
5) Runaway twin
Author
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
2009.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Sunny, accompanied by a stray dog, takes advantage of a windfall to travel from her Nebraska foster home to Enumclaw, Washington, to find the twin sister from whom she was separated at age three.
Author
Series
Keystone Stables volume 2
Publisher
Zonderkidz
Pub. Date
2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
The love of her foster parents, her friend Morgan, and her own devotion to the horses and dogs at Keystone Stables help Skye become a Christian and to, in turn, find a way to help her troubled friend Sooze.
Author
Series
Keystone Stables volume 3
Publisher
Zonderkidz
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Skye and Morgan have their hands full trying to share friendship and God's love with Tanya, a new foster child in the Chambers' household, who is a veteran shoplifter and a runaway but who shows surprising devotion to a mare and her foal.
Author
Series
Keystone Stables volume 5
Publisher
Zondervan
Pub. Date
2010.
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.
10) Over the wall
Author
Series
Publisher
Tyndale House
Pub. Date
[2007]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
When Jamie is accepted at an elite NASCAR training school sponsored by a competing racing team, her parents try to get her to trust God to help her decide what to do.
11) Overdrive
Author
Series
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers
Pub. Date
2008.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
As Jamie fights to earn her NASCAR license, her foster brother, Tim, takes a job in the Maxwell garage and finds out more about his father's death.
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2001.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Primrose living in a small fishing village in British Columbia recounts her experiences and all that she learns about human nature and the unpredictability of life in the months after her parents are lost at sea.
13) Defect
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2007.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
After spending most of his life in Minnesota foster homes hiding a bizarre physical abnormality, fifteen-year-old David is offered a chance at normalcy, but must decide if giving up what makes him special is the right thing to do.
14) Welcome Comfort
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
1999.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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.
15) In between
Author
Series
Katie Parker productions volume 1
Publisher
Th1nk
Pub. Date
2007.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Soon after moving to a small Texas town, fifteen-year-old Katie Parker's rebelliousness complicates her life at home and school, but when she is accused of vandalism, she finds hope through a new friendship, involvement in a play, and her foster family's faith in God and her.
16) On the loose
Author
Series
Katie Parker productions volume 2
Publisher
Th1nk
Pub. Date
2007.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Katie Parker finds her newly blossoming faith tested after a tornado rips through town, her foster mother is diagnosed with cancer, and Katie is accused of stealing.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
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.
18) The big picture
Author
Series
Katie Parker productions volume 3
Publisher
NavPress
Pub. Date
2008.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Dumped by her possible boyfriend at a drive-in theater, Katie returns home to find that her mother, a former convict and current addict, wants to take her away from her foster family, friends, and church, and Katie must make important decisions as she considers what family and home really mean.
Author
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
When Loretta surrenders her young girls to the county and then disappears, she becomes one more missing Native woman in Indian Country's long devastating history of loss. But she is also a daughter of the Mozhay Point Reservation in northern Minnesota and the mother of Azure and Rain, ages 3 and 4, and her absence haunts all the lives she has touched--and all the stories they tell in this novel. In the Night of Memory returns to the fictional reservation...
20) The Wrong Girl
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Award-winning and Boston Globe bestselling author Hank Phillippi Ryan presents a spine-chilling, heart-wrenching suspense novel that explores a terrifying scenario striking at the heart of every family. Does a respected adoption agency have a frightening secret? Tipped off by a determined ex-colleague on a desperate quest to find her birth mother, Boston newspaper reporter Jane Ryland begins to suspect that the agency is engaging in the ultimate...
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