foster home care

Fourteen-year-old Alem Kelo adjusts to life as a foster child seeking asylum in London, while his Eritrean mother and Ethiopian father work for peace between their homelands in Africa.

When the state of Maine threatens to shut down their island's one-room schoolhouse because of dwindling enrollment, eleven-year-old Tess, a strong believer in luck, and her family take in a trumpet-playing foster child, to increase the school's population.

When seventeen-year-old Matt tries to find a family for an eight-year-old foster child, his attempt backfires, and they both need a miracle.

Trying to hold onto the newfound stability of his life in a foster home, thirteen-year-old David worries about the growing moodiness of his guardian Paul and the fluctuating fortunes of his Pony League baseball team.

In the early 1960s eight-year-old Kiki leaves Cuba to escape the Castro regime and tries to adjust in two very different foster homes in Florida, first with a poor family in the Everglades and then with a wealthy family in Miami.

Gives examples of teenagers who have been sent to live with foster families, detailing some of the reasons for needing foster care, what to expect, and how to make the necessary adjustments.

Twelve-year-old Jack and his younger sister visit Mesa Verde National Park, where they delve into the park's history while gradually uncovering the mysterious past of their family's teenage foster child Lucky.

While she studies condors in the Grand Canyon a scientist's life is threatened, and the strange, hostile, teenage computer whiz in her family's foster care might be involved.

Fourteen-year-old Bindy Callister, afraid after discovering the truth behind the breaching of whales on the shores of Acadia National Park, must find the courage to share what she knows with her friends Jack and Ashley Landon, before it is too late.

Gilbert and his big sister Rachel must go to foster care while their mother is in rehab, and meet a lot of adults appointed to help them including a caseworker, foster parents, foster brothers and sisters, a lawyer, therapist, a judge, and their own court appointed special advocate.