Oblivion
Sixteen-year-old Callie Knowles fights her compulsion to write constantly, even on herself, as she struggles to cope with foster care, her mother's life in a mental institution, and her belief that she killed her father, a minister, who has been missing for a year.
FIC
year: 2015
copies: 10
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 730
subjects: dating (social customs), foster home care [X], missing persons, recovered memory, mental illness, illinois, compulsive behavior, electronic books, psychological fiction, mystery fiction, electronic books [X], psychological fiction, suspense fiction
Kinda Like Brothers
Jarrett doesn't trust Kevon. But he's got to share a room with him anyway.
FIC
year: 2014
copies: 38
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 660
subjects: african americans, interpersonal relations, foster home care [X], foster children, children's audiobooks, brothers, friendship, audiobooks, urban fiction, domestic fiction, electronic books [X]
Box-office Smash
"Jason can't believe his luck when he opens the letter from Harmon Holt telling him he'll be interning on a movie set in LA.
FIC
year:
copies: 5
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 580
subjects: motion pictures, pride and vanity, internship programs, african americans, interns, motion picture industry, orphans, foster home care [X], coming of age, bildungsromans, electronic books [X]
Outburst
After spending time in a juvenile detention center for a crime related to severe anger issues, seventeen-year-old Jada Robinson is sent to a foster home and enrolled in an alternative high school, and begins to move past her old life.
FIC
year: 2014
copies: 4
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 690
subjects: anger management, anger, foster home care [X], high schools, schools, african americans, mothers and daughters, letters, school stories, mother-daughter relationship, domestic fiction, electronic books [X], young adult fiction