foster children

Kathy Harrison recounts her experiences as a foster parent, describing how a little girl managed to challenge everything she believed about foster care.

Alicia Jiminez, attending a new high school after moving in with her latest foster parents, sets out to win a scholarship competition to attend fashion design school in Spain, and decides to boost her chances by getting her hunky neighbor Hector to tutor her in Spanish.

Cindy Blake is happy in her new foster home with the McLean family on Whitebrook Farm, but her happiness is threatened when Lavinia Townsend accuses Cindy of stealing. Cindy's troubles multiply when she hides a mistreated horse from a neighboring farm.

Text and illustrations describe a foster child's year spent socializing a puppy destined to be trained as a dog guide for a blind person.

Fourteen-year-old Latonya Dennison wants nothing more than to live with her friend Rudy Morris's family, but because Latonya is African-American and Rudy's family is white, the foster care system refuse to make the placement, leaving Latonya and Rudy to take matters into their own hands.

Thirteen-year-old Nell and her friends risk going to jail by robbing banks to pay for renovations in their foster home.

Fifteen-year-old Tamara is used to being bumped between foster homes, but now that she is aging out of the foster care system, she has devised a plan that will ensure her wealth and freedom, but first she must get through her last community project, which may change her life forever.

After moving to San Diego and her fifth foster home since kindergarten, Sheridan Alexander has two goals, to graduate and exit the system without any more trouble until she finds the abandoned journal of Ribbon Barber in her locker and she knows she has to find Ribbon and protect her from the endless insults and abuse that has been flung at the innocent girl.

For eighteen years, Jude Farraday has put her children's needs before her own. Her twins, Mia and Zach, are bright, well-adjusted teenagers. Then Lexi, a former foster child with a dark past, moves into their neighborhood. Lexi quickly becomes Mia's best friend and soon Zach falls for Lexi and the three become inseparable. But senior year of high school tests them all and on a hot, summer's night, one bad decision will change the course of all their lives forever.