Beast by Kennen, Ally 

Audio Book(Findaway World, LLC, 2009)

BTSB #: P00625 Available

Dewey: FAges: 13-18   


Genres:

Subjects: Foster children - Fiction Problem children - Fiction Secrets - Fiction

Summary: Put into foster care when his own parents were no longer able to care for him, Stephen hides a secret in the form of a crocodile, Beast, that he has fed for years at a local reservoir, until finally the crocodile has become a serious danger both to Stephen and the town.

City spies by Ponti, James 

Paperback(Aladdin, 2021)

BTSB #: 705126 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   
AR: 5.6 MG Lexile: 750 F&P: Y

Genres: Adventure Fiction

Subjects: Foster children - Fiction Spies - Fiction Hackers - Fiction Conduct of life - Fiction

Summary: Sara Martinez is facing years in the juvenile detention system for hacking into the foster care computer system to prove that her foster parents are crooks. But then she gets a second chance when a mysterious man offers her a chance to join a group of MI6 affiliated spies.

City spies [City Spies Volume: Book 1]by Ponti, James 

BTSB Prebound(Aladdin, 2020)

BTSB #: 705128 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   
AR: 5.6 MG Lexile: 750 F&P: Y

Genres: Adventure Fiction

Subjects: Foster children - Fiction Spies - Fiction Hackers - Fiction Conduct of life - Fiction

Summary: Sara Martinez is facing years in the juvenile detention system for hacking into the foster care computer system to prove that her foster parents are crooks. But then she gets a second chance when a mysterious man offers her a chance to join a group of MI6 affiliated spies.

Every shiny thing by Jensen, Cordelia 

BTSB Prebound(Amulet Books, 2018)

BTSB #: 491256 Available

Dewey: FAges: 10-14   
AR: 5.4 MG RC: 5.6 6-8 Lexile: 860

Genres: Family Life

Subjects: Conduct of life - Fiction Theft - Fiction Autism - Fiction Siblings - Fiction Foster children - Fiction Friendship - Fiction Family problems - Fiction

Summary: Seventh-grader Lauren begins stealing to help children who, like her brother, are on the autism spectrum, and Sierra, in foster care in Lauren's neighborhood, fears she will enable Lauren's lawbreaking. Told half in prose, half in verse.

Flight by Alexie, Sherman 

Audio Book(Findaway World, LLC, 2008)

BTSB #: P00542 Available

Dewey: FAges: 13-18   


Genres:

Subjects: Native Americans - North America - Fiction Foster children - Fiction

Summary: A powerful, fast and timely story of a troubled foster teenager, a boy who is not a "legal" Indian because he was never claimed by his father, who learns the true meaning of terror. About to commit a devastating act, the young man finds himself shot back through time on a shocking sojourn through moments of violence in American history.

Just like a mama by Duncan, Alice Faye 

BTSB Prebound(Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2020)

BTSB #: 295101 Available

Dewey: EAges: 4-8   
Lexile: 440 AD

Genres: Family Life

Subjects: Mother-daughter relationship - Fiction Foster children - Fiction

Summary: Carol Olivia Clementine wishes her parents did not live so far away, but Mama Rose provides a home, loves her, and cares for her just like a mother would.

Planet Earth is blue by Panteleakos, Nicole 

Paperback(Yearling, 2020)

BTSB #: 698481 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   
AR: 5 MG RC: 4.5 6-8 Lexile: 740 F&P: X

Genres: Family Life

Subjects: Challenger (Spacecraft) - Accidents - Fiction Sisters - Fiction Autism - Fiction Foster children - Fiction Middle schools - Fiction School stories Space shuttles - Accidents - Fiction

Summary: Autistic and nearly nonverbal, twelve-year-old Nova is happy in her new foster home and school, but eagerly anticipates the 1986 Challenger launch, for which her sister, Bridget, promised to return.

Planet Earth is blue by Panteleakos, Nicole 

BTSB Prebound(Yearling, 2020)

BTSB #: 698497 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   
AR: 5 MG RC: 4.5 6-8 Lexile: 740 F&P: X

Genres:

Subjects: Challenger (Spacecraft) - Accidents - Fiction Sisters - Fiction Autism - Fiction Foster children - Fiction Middle schools - Fiction School stories Space shuttles - Accidents - Fiction

Summary: Autistic and nearly nonverbal, twelve-year-old Nova is happy in her new foster home and school, but eagerly anticipates the 1986 Challenger launch, for which her sister, Bridget, promised to return.

Scarlet ibis by Lewis, Gill 

BTSB Prebound(Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2018)

BTSB #: 568476 Available

Dewey: FAges: 9-14   
AR: 3.8 MG Lexile: 570

Genres: Animals Family Life

Subjects: Siblings - Fiction Foster children - Fiction Asperger's syndrome - Fiction Mother-daughter relationship - Fiction Birds - Fiction

Summary: When a fire leaves twelve-year-old Scarlet in a different foster home than her autistic little brother, she does everything she can to find her way back to him--even if it means sacrificing a better life for herself.

Season of Styx Malone by Magoon, Kekla 

Paperback(Yearling, 2019)

BTSB #: 596653 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   
AR: 3.8 MG RC: 2.8 3-5 Lexile: 510 F&P: W

Genres: Adventure Fiction Multicultural Family Life

Subjects: Adventure fiction Family life - Indiana - Fiction Foster children - Fiction African Americans - Fiction Indiana - Fiction

Summary: Caleb Franklin and his younger brother, Bobby Gene, spend an extraordinary summer with their new, older neighbor, Styx Malone, a foster boy from the city.

Season of Styx Malone by Magoon, Kekla 

BTSB Prebound(Wendy Lamb Books, 2018)

BTSB #: 596675 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   
AR: 3.8 MG RC: 2.8 3-5 Lexile: 510 F&P: W

Genres: Adventure Fiction Multicultural Family Life

Subjects: Adventure fiction Family life - Indiana - Fiction Foster children - Fiction African Americans - Fiction Indiana - Fiction

Summary: Caleb Franklin and his younger brother, Bobby Gene, spend an extraordinary summer with their new, older neighbor, Styx Malone, a foster boy from the city.

Season of Styx Malone by Magoon, Kekla 

Audio Book(Findaway World, LLC, 2019)

BTSB #: P07967 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   


Genres: Adventure Fiction Multicultural Family Life

Subjects: Families - Indiana - Fiction Foster children - Fiction African Americans - Fiction Indiana - Fiction

Summary: Caleb Franklin and his younger brother, Bobby Gene, spend an extraordinary summer with their new, older neighbor, Styx Malone, a foster boy from the city.

Touch blue by Lord, Cynthia 

BTSB Prebound(Scholastic Press, 2010)

BTSB #: 587508 Available

Dewey: FAges: 9-12   
AR: 4.4 MG RC: 4.6 3-5 Lexile: 750 F&P: R

Genres: Family Life

Subjects: Foster children - Fiction Luck - Fiction Islands - Fiction Maine - Fiction

Summary: When the state of Maine moves to shut down their island's one-room schoolhouse because of dwindling enrollment, Tess, 11, a strong believer in luck, and her family take in a trumpet-playing foster child, to increase the school's population.

True history of Lyndie B. Hawkins by Shepherd, Gail 

BTSB Prebound(Kathy Dawson, 2019)

BTSB #: 810586 Available

Dewey: FAges: 10-14   
AR: 4.7 MG RC: 4.3 6-8 Lexile: 700

Genres: Historical Fiction Family Life

Subjects: Secrets - Fiction Veterans - Fiction Grandparents - Fiction Foster children - Fiction Family life - Tennessee - Fiction Tennessee - History|y20th century - Fiction

Summary: When twelve-year-old Lyndie and her parents must move to her grandparents' home in small-town Tennessee in 1985, having to keep all family problems private only adds to their problems.