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2) The mailbox
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 6
Description
When twelve-year-old Gabe tries to hide his uncle's death from the local authorities, he is not prepared for what happens when this secret is discovered.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 6
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Description
A group of foster children build a home of their own.
A ghost saved twelve-year-old Maddie's life when she was an infant, her Granny Lane claims, so Maddie must always remember that she is special. But it's hard to feel special when you've spent your life shuffled from one foster home to another. And now that she's at the East Tennessee Children's Home, Maddie feels even less special. She longs for a place to call home. She even has a "book of houses"...
5) Gossamer
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 4
Formats
Description
While learning to bestow dreams, a young dream giver tries to save an eight-year-old boy from the effects of both his abusive past and the nightmares inflicted on him by the frightening Sinisteeds.
7) Schooled
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 6
Description
Cap lives in isolation with his grandmother, a former hippie; but when she falls from a tree and breaks her hip, Cap is sent to a foster home where he has his first experience in a public school.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 8
Description
"Brian has always been anxious, whether at home, or in class, or on the basketball court. His dad tries to get him to stand up for himself and his mom helps as much as she can, but after he and his brother are placed in foster care, Brian starts having panic attacks. And he doesn't know if things will ever be 'normal' again... Ezra's always been popular. He's friends with most of the kids on his basketball team--even Brian, who usually keeps to himself....
11) Best family ever
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 6
Description
"Brooke is the perfect older sister. For that reason, Kari and Ashley work hard to make their parents just as proud of them as they are of Brooke. Each girl has her own talents. Brooke is an excellent student. Kari is a great soccer player. Ashley, a talented artist. And they are always there for each other. But when the news comes that Dr. Baxter is moving the family from Ann Arbor to Bloomington, Indiana, and the Baxters need to leave the only home...
13) Choppers
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Formats
Description
Provides a brief history of customized motorcycles, describes the general features of choppers, and includes a glossary and resources.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 10
Description
3 starred reviews - A Kirkus Best Book of 2017 - A New York Public Library Top Ten Books for Kids pick - An ALA Notable Book - 2018 NCTE Charlotte Huck Honor Book From rising star Caela Carter, author of My Life with the Liars, comes a captivating and heartfelt story about siblings who learn that love can never be divided, only multiplied. Flora and her brother, Julian, don't believe they were born. They've lived in so many foster homes, they can't...
15) Rainbow Valley
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 14
Description
The seventh book in the chronology of the Anne of Green Gables series by Lucy Maud Montgomery, although it was the fifth book published. In this book Anne Shirley is married with six children, but the book focuses more on her new neighbor, the new Presbyterian minister John Meredith, as well as the interactions between Anne's and John Meredith's children.
16) Circle of love
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Series
Orphan Train adventures volume 7
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
740L
Description
Nineteen-year-old Frances Mary Kelly, herself an orphan train rider six years before, returns to New York and agrees to escort a group of orphans west to find new homes.
17) Cress Watercress
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
Description
"When Papa doesn't return from a nocturnal honey-gathering expedition, Cress holds out hope, but her mother assumes the worst. It's a dangerous world for rabbits, after all. Mama moves what's left of the Watercress family to the basement unit of the Broken Arms, a run-down apartment oak with a suspect owl landlord, a nosy mouse super, a rowdy family of squirrels, and a pair of songbirds who broadcast everyone's business. Can a dead tree full of annoying...
18) The pinballs
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 3
Description
Three lonely foster children learn to care about themselves and each other.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 4
Formats
Description
On the last night of summer, Emma and her Maine game warden father rescue a small domestic rabbit stuck in a fence; the very next day Emma starts fifth grade after years of being home schooled, excited and apprehensive about making new friends, but she is paired with Jack, a hyperactive boy, who does not seem to fit in with anyone--except that they share a love of animals, which draws them together, because of the rabbit.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
860L
Description
Through letters to his little sister, who is living in a different foster home, sixth-grader 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.
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