foster home care

Seventeen-year-old Margaret "Cuckoo" Clark keeps a journal detailing the trials and tribulations of high school life as she and her close-knit group of outcast friends try to break down the barriers between their school's "warring nations.".

This book is a brief, horrifying account of the bizarre tortures she inflicted on him, told from the point of view of the author as a young boy being starved, stabbed, smashed face-first into mirrors, forced to eat the contents of his sibling's diapers and a spoonful of ammonia, and burned over a gas stove by a maniacal, alcoholic mom.

Jamie's parents try to get her to trust God to help to decide what to do after she is accepted at an elite NASCAR training school sponsored by a competing racing team.

When twelve-year-old Arcady is sent to a children's home after his parents are declared enemies of the state in Soviet Russia, soccer becomes a way to secure extra rations, respect, and protection but it may also be his way out if he can believe in and love another person, and himself.

Whe their mother can no longer support them, six siblings are sent by the Children's Aid Society of New York City to live with farm families in Missouri in 1860.

Seventeen-year-old Jules Parish turned to stealing cars to try to get her sister out of foster care, but after she is caught, a wealthy eccentic offers a promising--but perilous--solution.

This book presents a powerful, real-world look at the lives of vulnerable young people in foster care.

Examines the pros and cons of the American foster care system as it exists today, offering advice for how it could be improved and arguing that teenagers who grow out of the system still are in need of parental figures and a sense of home.

At odds with his sister, Tina, fourteen, who says their father murdered their mother, Todd, fifteen, who claims it was self-defense, begins to lose faith in their father when he pressures Todd to get Tina to change her story, and being in separate foster homes only makes things harder.

Twelve-year-old Toby and her sister live with foster parents while their widowed mother is in a state hospital and Toby is increasingly torn between her love for her mother and her growing affection for her foster family.