One For The Murphys
After heartbreaking betrayal, Carley is sent to live with a foster family and struggles with opening herself up to their love.
FIC
year: 2013
copies: 76
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 520
subjects: foster home care [X], mothers and daughters, stepfathers, dysfunctional families, families, connecticut, family problems, family life, mother-daughter relationship [X]
Mama One, Mama Two
A young child lives with a foster family until her own mother is well enough to care for her.
FIC
year: 1982
copies: 6
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: foster home care [X], mothers and daughters, mental illness, mother-daughter relationship [X]
Rainbow Jordan
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.
FIC
year: 1982
copies: 3
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 700
subjects: mothers and daughters, foster home care [X], african americans, mother-daughter relationship [X], afro-americans
The Story Of Tracy Beaker
Ten-year-old Tracy, who lives in a children's home because her mother was forced to give her up, dreams of getting a good foster family where she can be happy until her mother comes back for her.
FIC
year: 2002
copies: 2
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 790
Happily After All
When her father dies, ten-year-old Rebecca is sent to live with the mother she's been brought up to believe had abandoned her and, through a growing relationship with a troubled foster child, begins to accept her mother and some of the truths her father had always kept from her.
FIC
year: 1993
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 640
subjects: mothers and daughters, death, family problems, foster home care [X], mother-daughter relationship [X], vermont
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 [X], domestic fiction, electronic books, young adult fiction
All The Impossible Things
"Red's inexplicable power over the wind comes from her mother. Whenever Ruby 'Red' Byrd is scared or angry, the wind picks up.
FIC
year: 2019
copies: 30
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
Una Para Los Murphys
Carley struggles with being open to love after she suffers a betrayal that forces her to move in with a foster family.
FIC
year: 2022
copies: 4
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: foster home care [X], mothers and daughters, stepfathers, dysfunctional families, families, family problems, family life, spanish language materials, mother-daughter relationship [X], spanish language, connecticut
Spells For Lost Things
Willow and Mason, two teens who are unceremoniously dragged to Salem, Massachusetts for the summer, meet and help each other figure out their places in the world.
FIC
year: 2022
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 770
subjects: friendship, foster home care [X], mothers and daughters, mothers and sons, love, mother-daughter relationship [X], mother-son relationship, salem (mass.), romance fiction