foster home care

A memoir in which the author, eight-years-old when her mother died in a fire, discusses how the loss affected her, and describes the challenges and abuse she and her brothers suffered with their step-grandparents, at an orphanage, and in foster homes.

"An eleven-year-old foster child tries to cope with her longings and fears as she schemes against everyone who tries to be friendly"--Provided by publisher.

After her mother is arrested, fifteen-year-old Dess is sent to live with the foster family that took in her baby brother several years before, and although she and her new foster sister, Hope, clash immediately, they soon realize they have much in common.

Finally in a foster home with a caring family, Nard, a thirteen-year-old orphan with only one hand, invents a human-powered flying machine with the assistance of the 500-year-old hand of Leonardo da Vinci.

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.

When fifteen-year-old Calli's two moms take in Cherish, a troubled teenager, and Calli tries to stand up to her antisocial behavior, things quickly begin to spiral downward before Calli can begin to regain some semblance of control.

Eleven-year-old Primrose living in a small fishing village in British Columbia recounts her experiences and all that she learns about human nature and the unpredictability of life in the months after her parents are lost at sea.

Katie Parker begins to feel her new life in the town of In Between is starting to fall apart as she struggles to cope with the spring play, a bullying classmate, her foster mother's cancer, and her own romantic issues, but as she begins to crack from the stress, she learns all she has to do is ask God for help.