Kategoria BISAC: Young Adult Fiction >> Family - Orphans & Foster Homes

"I'd never had a friend, and he was my friend; I'd never really, except for a shadowy memory, had a father, and he was my father. I'd never known an adult I could communicate with or trust, and I communicated with him all the time, whether I was actually talking to him or not. And I trusted him ......

Fourteen-year-old Charles desperately wants two things: a father and a way out. Little love has come his way until the summer he befriends a mysterious scarred man named Justin McLeod, nicknamed ""The Man Without...

Around 5:00 a.m. on a warm Sunday morning on October 1953, my Aunt Belle left her bed and vanished from the face of the earth.

Everyone in Coal Station, Virginia, has a theory about what happened to Belle Prater, but twelve-year-old Gypsy wants the facts, and when her cousin Woodrow, Aunt Belle's son moves next door, she has her chance. Woodrow isn't as forthcoming as Gypsy hopes, yet he becomes more than just a curiosity to her-- during their sixth-grade year she finds that they have enough in common to be best friends. Even so, Gypsy is puzzled by Woodrow's calm acceptance...

Molly Moon is no ordinary orphan. When she finds a mysterious old book on hypnotism, she discovers she can make people do whatever she wants. But a sinister stranger is watching her every move and he'll do anything to steal her hypnotic secret...

The main character is a boy named Craig. His age is not mentioned but he is probably in his early teens. He has a younger sister, Lisa. Craig and Lisa have lost their family through death. They have been taken in by distant relatives but it is not a happy situation. 'Uncle Pete', in particular, gives them a hard time. Young people whose families have broken up through other reasons may still recognise the difficulties Craig and Lisa have in settling down with a substitute parent they don't get on with. Craig escapes from his troubled life in dreams. They don't solve his problems, but they...