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41) Fighting words
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Depending on an older sister who protected her when their mother went to prison and their mother's boyfriend committed a terrible act, 10-year-old Della tries to figure out what to do when her older sister attempts suicide.
"Ten-year-old Della can rely on her older sister, Suki, for anything, but when Suki attempts suicide, Della must seek help and speak out about the sexual abuse they've both suffered at the hands of their mother's boyfriend"--...
42) Just like a mama
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Carol Olivia Clementine lives with Mama Rose. Mama Rose is tender and sweet. She is also as stern and demanding as any good parent should be. Though Carol Olivia misses her mother and father, Mama Rose becomes her "home." And Carol Olivia concludes that she loves her "just like a mama.
43) Ginny Moon
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Meet Ginny Moon. She's mostly your average teenager--she plays flute in the high school band, has weekly basketball practice, and reads Robert Frost poems in English class. But Ginny is autistic. And so what's important to her might seem a bit... different: starting every day with exactly nine grapes for breakfast, Michael Jackson, her baby doll, and crafting a secret plan of escape. After being traumatically taken from her abusive birth mother and...
45) Forged in flames
Author
Series
Made of steel volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
"I remember when I thought my life would be like the fairy tales I read about. I'd do anything to go back in time when everything was so simple. When my knight in shining armor had a face and a name. When my biggest secret was that I snuck out at night to watch the stars. I'm worried that there's a sickness in me, swallowing me whole. I don't understand what's happening to me. I don't understand why the only person I can find solace in is someone...
Author
Series
Enchanter's child volume 1
Language
English
Formats
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...
Author
Publisher
Redhook
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Mel Smith has always known life isn't easy. After all, she was abandoned as an infant and raised in foster care. But still, when the only bright spot in her life, her best friend Sarah Ross, unexpectedly dies, it's a heartbreak unlike any other. A final promise to lay Sarah to rest in the Ross wildwood garden draws Mel to Morgan's Gap, a small town nestled in the shadows of the Appalachian Mountains. Yet Morgan's Gap is more than a land of morning...
Author
Publisher
Woodsmall Press
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
At twenty-seven, Hadley is still trying to get free of the weight she's carried all her life: entering foster care at age five, getting arrested at seventeen for arson, and losing her boyfriend, Monroe, when she needed him most. Monroe never wanted to walk out on Hadley. He'd understood her, from her desire to help children with speech issues to her intense temper. But when she was arrested, he became haunted by what he knew and convinced his only...
49) Made of steel
Author
Series
Made of steel volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Once upon a time, my name was Summer Brooks. I fell in love with a prince and my dreams went as far as the stars. I had my whole life figured out. I had my whole life in front of me. But my life wasn't meant to be a fairy tale. Everything I knew was taken away in a flash. Broken. Lost. Abandoned. Beaten. Ten years of pain. Ten years of torture. I'm finally free. But I'm not Summer Brooks anymore. That girl died as soon as the devil himself put his...
Author
Series
Blessings volume 11
Publisher
Avon, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
As Bernadine Brown and Malachi July prepare for their upcoming wedding, Amari's birth mother comes to Henry Adams, Kansas, with the hope of spending Christmas with her son.
"Christmas is just around the corner, and the town of Henry Adams is preparing for a wedding! Ever since Bernadine Brown bought the town of Henry Adams, her relationship with diner owner Malachi "Mal" July has had its share of ups and downs. But now they're finally ready to say...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Danny Monteverde believes in magic, he believes that the enchanted land of Rio Luna in his older sister's favorite book is real, and most of all he believes that if he can find the way to Rio Luna he will find his sister Pili there, because he does not believe that his sister would run away from the group home where they lived and leave him behind; but after years of being passed from one foster family to another his faith begins to...
52) The companion
Author
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
The other orphans say Margot is lucky. Lucky to survive the horrible accident that killed her family. Lucky to have her own room because she wakes up screaming every night. And finally, lucky to be chosen by a prestigious family to live at their remote country estate. But it wasn't luck that made the Suttons rescue Margot from her bleak existence at the group home. Margot was handpicked to be a companion to their silent, mysterious daughter, Agatha....
Author
Publisher
Hanna L. Lyman
Pub. Date
©2022
Language
English
Description
Unanswered questions have plagued Kentucky Kunningberg-Washington for years, ever since her parents' mysterious death in a plane crash when she was eight years old. The only answer to Kentucky's questions seems to be the small bronze key her mother entrusted to her before she died. However, Kentucky promised she would wait to investigate the key in her mother's hometown when she turned eighteen. So Kentucky spent years shuffled with her siblings around...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
After an incident shatters their family, eleven-year-old Samantha Littlefield and her older sister, Caitlin, are sent to live in rural Oregon with an aunt they've never met. Sam wants nothing more than to go back to the way thing were ... before she spoke up. When Aunt Vicky gives Sam a mysterious card game called A Game of Fox & Squirrels, Sam falls in love with the animal characters, especially the charming trickster fox, Ashander. Then one day...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"A TINY UPWARD SHOVE is a fictionalized account of real life Canadian serial killer Willie Pickton and his final victim. In the debut novel of award-winning essayist, Melissa Chadburn, we follow the life of Filipina foster youth Marina Salles and are submerged in the confluence of violence and empathy, fabulism and realism. A story of how both victim and monster emerge from the same world"--
Marina Salles's life does not end the day she wakes up...
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"From the author of the international bestseller The Sweetness of Forgetting, named one of the Best Books of Summer 2012 by Marie Claire magazine, comes a captivating novel about the struggle to overcome the past when our memories refuse to be forgotten. In this richly told story where Sliding Doors meets P.S.I Love You, Kristin Harmel weaves a heart-wrenching tale that asks: what does it take to move forward in life without forgetting the past? After...
Author
Series
Berlin Bookmobile volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Miriam and Calvin Gingerich have been trying for a baby for several years, but the Lord hasn't seen fit to bless them. Though Calvin claims he's content with their childless state, Miriam knows he's not, and when he starts spending more time off their farm, she worries he's found someone else. But just as she finds herself at her lowest point, she discovers the ultimate surprise. Unable to confide in anyone who might tell Calvin--out of fear she'll...
Author
Series
Outlaws of time volume 3
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Alex always thought his life was boring at best. But when he learns that his favorite time-traveling heroes Sam and Glory are his real parents, Alex realizes he never needed to dream of an elsewhere. Just an elsewhen. But when Alex sets out to find Father Tiempo, he is ambushed and transformed into the powerful villain El Terremento. Now there's not a second to waste. Unless Sam and Glory Miracle can stop the son they didn't even know they were going...
59) Forever beach
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"From the New York Times bestselling author of Beach Colors and Breakwater Bay comes this heartwarming story of love, family, and redemption. Two young girls pledged to be best friends forever. Separated by circumstance and hurt, they are reunited years later as they struggle to put their differences aside for the sake of a special little girl--perfect for fans of Kristin Hannah, Elin Hilderbrand, and Karen White. One woman struggling to hold on to...
Author
Publisher
Harper Perennial
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"During a terrible heat wave in 1991--the worst in a decade--nine-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 found in a crack house...
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