foster children

Asks the reader to choose the path of the plot in a story about making the right decisions for Alec Gibbsen, a baseball player.

"In her final year in foster care, seventeen-year-old Muir tries to survive her senior year before aging out of the system"--Provided by publisher.

"Sara Martinez is facing years in the juvenile detention system for hacking into the foster care computer system to prove that her foster parents are crooks. But then she gets a second chance when a mysterious man offers her a chance to join a group of MI6 affiliated spies"--Provided by publisher.

"Civilized societies attempt to take care of the most vulnerable among them. This includes children who have been abused, neglected, or abandoned--who, as a result, may end up in foster care. Readers will come to a more comprehensive understanding of the types of foster care, the benefits and potential pitfalls of such care, and how to navigate within a system designed to safeguard the individuals it serves. Helpful elements that augment the text include a section dispelling common myths surrounding foster care and questions about the system that may be posed to a qualified social worker"--Provided by publisher.

During World War II, Felicity Bathburn is living in Bottlebay, Maine, with her eccentric relatives and their foster child Derek, whom she has grown to love, but when a man claiming to be Derek's true father arrives and starts asking all sorts of strange questions Felicity becomes suspicious of his motives.

Dave Pelzer, victim of one of the worst child abuse cases in California history, tells the story of his adolescent years after he was removed from his home and placed in foster care, and discusses the influence on his life of Dan Brazell, the man he came to regard as his father.

"Lucky loves her grandparents, and they are all the family she really has. True, her grandma forgets things... like turning off the stove, or Lucky's name. But her grandpa takes such good care of them that Lucky doesn't realize how bad things are. That is until he's gone. When her grandma accidentally sets the kitchen on fire, Lucky can't hide what's happening any longer, and she is sent into foster care. She quickly learns that some foster families are okay. Some aren't. And some really, really aren't. Is it possible to find a home again when the only one you've ever known hasbeen taken from you?"--Provided by publisher.

Elizabeth resents her foster mother for forcing her and her foster sister, Alexi, to steal in order to support the family, but fears there is nothing she can do to stop it, until a third foster child is pulled into the scheme and Elizabeth decides she will stop at nothing to ensure he does not share her fate.

Ashley Rhodes-Courter provides an account of her life, focusing on the nine years she spent in Florida's foster care system after being removed from her mother at the age of three, and explaining how her life changed after she was adopted.

"In her final year in foster care, seventeen-year-old Muir tries to survive her senior year before aging out of the system"--Provided by publisher.