Through letters to his little sister, who is in a different foster home, Lonnie, also known as "Locomotion," keeps a record of their lives while they are apart, describing his own foster family, including his foster brother who returns home after losing a leg in the Iraq War.
In a small town near Salt Lake City, Utah, a caring foster family and her love of running help twelve-year-old Natalie Wills feel that she can be part of normal life, despite having been raised by a drug addicted mother.
Introduces the people and procedures involved in foster care, and the feelings, reactions, and concerns of new foster children. Includes an afterword for caregivers.
Describes foster home care, the different circumstances which may make it necessary for a child to live with foster parents, and potential problems and their solutions.
Welcome Comfort, a lonely foster child, is assured by his friend the school custodian that there is a Santa Claus, but he does not discover the truth until one wondrous and surprising Christmas Eve.
When her aunt suffers a ministroke, Lina Delgado is sent to Pittsburgh to live with her Aunt Pat and her seven kids. Despite Linda's penchant for cooking, Aunt Pat refuses to let her in the kitchen, which drives Linda crazy until she manages to pick up a cooking project at school. When her jealous cousin joins her group, however, Linda has to decide how to handle the situation.
Grace, a scheming runaway, JJ, her foster care sister, and Mick, the son of a petty thief, become entangled in the investigation of a teen prostitute's murder in a small, corrupt Montana town.
Kathy Harrison recounts her experiences as a foster parent, describing how a little girl managed to challenge everything she believed about foster care.
When her father leaves home to marry another woman and her mother is unable to care for her, young Brett spends the next ten years in a variety of foster homes.
