-
-
c1994., Little, Brown Call No: [Fic] Edition: 1st American ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Fifteen-year-old Sara Moone, abandonded at birth and shunted from one foster home to another, finds that she cannot remain aloof from her latest family.
-
-
[2016], Pre-adolescent, Katherine Tegen Books Call No: [Fic] Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to watch Summary Note: Eleven-year-old Perry Cook lives with his mother in the Blue River Co-Ed Correctional Facility due to the kindness of the warden. When a new district attorney finds out, Perry is forcibly placed in a foster home. Desperate to reunite with his mother, Perry tries to find out exactly why his mom was jailed in the first place, and in the process he learns what it means to truly be home.
-
-
2019., Pre-adolescent, Roaring Brook Press Call No: [Fic] Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "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 own curious gifts, Celine and Jackson Groove seem to fit like a puzzle piece into Red's heart. But just when Red starts to settle into her new life, a fresh storm rolls in, one she knows all too well: her mother. For so long, Red has longed to have her mom back in her life, and she's quickly swept up in the vortex of her mother's chaos. Now Red must discover the possible in the impossible if she wants to overcome her own tornadoes and find the family she needs"--Amazon.
-
-
2019., Juvenile, Roaring Brook Press Call No: [Fic] Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to watch Summary Note: Ruby "Red" Byrd has an explicable power over the wind that grows and diminishes with her emotions. When Ruby loses her addict mother to jail and her beloved grandmother to death, she bounces between foster homes until she lands with Celine and Jackson Grooves on their farm where they run a petting zoo. Celine understands Ruby's losses and eventually gets Ruby to settle into life there until Ruby's mother blows back into town and sweeps Ruby into her chaos. Now Ruby will have to search her feelings and find the family she wants--and needs.
-
-
c1984., Lippincott Call No: [Fic] Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Fifteen-year-old Angel, released on probation to a foster family after being convicted of shoplifting, is anxious to make a fresh start and to be accepted by her new family and friends.
-
-
2014., Pre-adolescent, Henry Holt and Company Call No: [Fic] Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)View cover image provided by Mackin Summary Note: Twelve-year-old orphan Arcady copes with his difficult life in a Soviet children's home by spending as much time as possible playing soccer. When Ivan Ivanych, a man who lost his wife to the Stalinist purges, takes Arcady in and offers to coach him, it transforms both of their lives in profound ways.
-
-
-- Ball do not lie2005., Adolescent, Delacorte Call No: Sports FIC PENA Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Seventeen-year-old Sticky lives to play basketball at school and at Lincoln Rec Center in Los Angeles and is headed for the pros, but he is unaware of the many dangers--including his own past--that threaten his dream.
-
-
-- Ball do not liec2005., Delacorte Press Call No: SPORTS F PEN Availability:2 of 2 At Location(s) Summary Note: Seventeen-year-old Sticky lives to play basketball at school and at Lincoln Rec Center in Los Angeles and is headed for the pros, but he is unaware of the many dangers--including his own past--that threaten his dream.
-
-
-- Ball do not liec2005., Adolescent, Delacorte Call No: Sports Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Seventeen-year-old Sticky lives to play basketball at school and at Lincoln Rec Center in Los Angeles and is headed for the pros, but he is unaware of the many dangers--including his own past--that threaten his dream. (Socio-Economic Diversity).
-
-
-- Ball do not lie.2005., Adolescent, Delacorte Press Call No: SPORTS FICITON Availability:1 of 2 At Location(s) Summary Note: Seventeen-year-old Sticky lives to play basketball at school and at Lincoln Rec Center in Los Angeles and is headed for the pros, but he is unaware of the many dangers--including his own past--that threaten his dream.
-
-
-- Ball do not liec2005., Adolescent, Delacorte Press Call No: Sports FIC Pena Edition: 1st trade pbk. ed. Genre: Sports Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Seventeen-year-old Sticky lives to play basketball at school and at Lincoln Rec Center in Los Angeles. He is headed for the pros, but is unaware of the many dangers, including his own past, that threaten his dream.
-
-
-- Bronx wood.By Booth, Coe[2013]., Adolescent, Push Call No: TEEN FIC BOO Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Tyrell's life is spinning out of control after his father is released from prison, his little brother is placed in foster care, and the drug dealers he's living with are pressuring him to start dealing.
-
-
2011., Adolescent, Milkweed Editions Call No: Young adult FIC ANDERSON Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Fifteen-year-old Calli, an only child with two loving moms, a great boyfriend, and a loyal best friend, is excited when her parents decide to take in a foster child, but when Cherish proves to be disruptive in so many ways, Calli comes up with a disastrous plan to get even.
-
-
1988, Bantam Call No: Fic Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: The Orphan train quartetSummary Note: Eleven-year-old Michael Patrick Kelly from New York City is sent to a foster home, a Missouri farm with a sadistic owner, a bullying son, and a number of secrets.
-
-
p2001., Recorded Books Call No: PA 921 PELZER Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Dave Pelzer's story is the story of a child brutally beaten and starved by his emotionally unstable, alcoholic mother: a mother who played torturous, unpredictable games -- games that left one of her three sons nearly dead. Dave had to learn how to play his mother's games in order to survive because she no longer considered him a son, but a slave, and no longer a boy but an 'it'.
-
-
c1995., Health Communications Call No: B Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Tells the story of a child's abuse at the hands of his alcoholic mother.
-
-
c1995., Health Communications Call No: B Pelzer Availability:3 of 3 At Location(s)Click here to watch Summary Note: David Pelzer, victim of one of the worst child abuse cases in the history of California, tells the story of how he survived his mother's brutality and triumphed over his past.
-
-
1995., Health Communications Call No: 921 PELZER Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: David Pelzer, victim of one of the worst child abuse cases in the history of California, tells the story of how he survived his mother's brutality and triumphed over his past.
-
-
c1995., Health Communications Call No: 92 Availability:2 of 2 At Location(s) Summary Note: David Pelzer, victim of one of the worst child abuse cases in the history of California, tells the story of how he survived his mother's brutality and triumphed over his past.
-
-
c1995, Health Communications Call No: 92 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: David Pelzer, victim of one of the worst child abuse cases in the history of California, tells the story of how he survived his mother's brutality and triumphed over his past.