foster home care

Presents expert discussions of foster care, covering a variety of arguments in order to facilitate the development of critical thinking skills, with primary and secondary sources and other resources to aid in research.

Fifteen-year-old Ellen Foster is finally settled into a permanent home with a new mother and tries to prepare for her future while still carrying the burden of her mother's death and father's abuse.

Her mother, her foster guardian, and fourteen-year-old Rainbow comment on the state of things as she prepares to return to a foster home for yet another stay.

Eight-year-old Jennifer Jordan-Wong describes her adoption by a family after four years of living as a foster child with many different families.

A young child lives with a foster family until her own mother is well enough to care for her.

A young bear cub, who is alone in the world, and Old Bear, who is grumpy and tired of living alone, meet and discover what they have been missing.

In 1856, having traveled with his young sister from New York to a foster home on a farm in Missouri, ten-year-old Danny plots to get his foster father to send for and marry his mother.

Provides information about what foster care is and presents questions that a teenager in foster care would need answered by a specialist. Includes myths about foster care and discusses the emotions that foster children experience. Includes photos, a glossary, an index, and information about foundations and organizations dealing with foster care.

In Depression-era Alabama, twelve-year-old Mary Bayliss Pettigrew struggles to understand why her beloved older brother, Leo, died and whether she, miraculously, survived for some special purpose.

Katie begins to find her own strength and courage after she ends up in foster care, away from her angry, abusive father.