Kategoria BISAC: Juvenile Fiction >> Family - Orphans & Foster Homes

Erica, who is leaving one foster home and going to another, is ready for a new adventure. After her social worker takes her to meet her new foster mother, Erica is surprised to learn she has a large room and a seemingly infinite amount of toys to herself. From here, Erica's new adventure begins when she imagines that she and her toys go on a stormy voyage as pirates with Erica, the fearless captain.

Bobby Thompson wants to be cursed. And not your everyday, mad-at-your-neighbor jinx, but a big, fat, hairy curse. The kind of curse that will explain away all the bad in his life. When Flyn, his foster home friend, does a tarot card reading, she dubs him hoodoo cursed, and claims the only one capable of breaking it is her voodoo priestess aunt. But her aunt lives in New Orleans, four states away, and Bobby can't bear to leave his unconscious mom behind.

Unfortunately, Bobby's curse puts everyone around him in jeopardy. Old Mrs. Reed dies when he touches her, the neighborhood...

This Newbery Honor Book from bestselling author Katherine Paterson is now a major motion picture.

Eleven-year-old Gilly has been stuck in more foster families than she can remember, and she's disliked them all. She has a reputation for being brash, brilliant, and completely unmanageable, and that's the way she likes it. So when she's sent to live with Mrs. Trotter and William Ernest--by far the strangest family yet--she knows it's only a temporary problem.

Gilly decides to put her sharp mind to work and get out of there fast. She's determined to no longer be a foster kid....

This is the story of a boy who loves nature, animals, art, and his friends. Ronel is a lost boy who receives the best gift ever in the most unusual way. With the help of his newfound friends and family, Ronel learns the importance of helping others, and never giving up on his dreams.

Ronel and the Best Gift Ever is based on Real events of the life of Ronel D. Pierre, author, artist, and illustrator. Pierre has helped raise over nine million dollars for NPHUSA.org through motivational speaking, fundraisers, and art shows. NPH is an organization that helps 3,400 orphaned,...

This young readers' edition of Christina Baker Kline's #1 New York Times bestselling novel Orphan Train follows a young foster girl who forms an unlikely bond with a ninety-one-year-old woman. Adapted and condensed for a young audience, Orphan Train Girl includes an author's note and archival photos from the orphan train era. This book is especially perfect for mother/daughter reading groups.

Molly Ayer has been in foster care since she was eight years old. Most of the time, Molly knows it's her attitude that's the problem, but after being shipped from one...

2016 Reprint of 1912 Edition.  “Daddy-Long-Legs” is a 1912 epistolary novel by the American writer Jean Webster. It follows the protagonist, a young girl named Jerusha "Judy" Abbott, through her college years.  She writes the letters to her benefactor, a rich man whom she has never seen.  A trustee of the John Grier orphanage has offered to send Judy Abbott to college. The only requirements are that she must write to him every month and that she can never know who he is. Judy's life at college is a whirlwind of friends, classes, parties and a growing...

Buried,
By my family's fame.
Dying to escape the limelight,
And finally, I do.

Being raised as a Jayne, I'm under constant scrutiny. The rock band my brothers formed makes it impossible to stay under the radar. Paparazzi, tabloids, rabid fans--you name it and I've got it. It all makes me sick. But getting shipped off to crazy Aunt Betty's house in my senior year of high school isn't any better. After all, there isn't a stray kid or pet in the world that my aunt wouldn't take in.

Then I meet her. She's cautious, suspicious, and not interested in me at all. But...