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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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From the National Book Award–winning author of The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, the tale of a troubled boy’s trip through history.
Half Native American and half Irish, fifteen-year-old “Zits” has spent much of his short life alternately abused and ignored as an orphan and ward of the foster care system. Ever since his mother died, he’s felt alienated from everyone, but, thanks to the...
Half Native American and half Irish, fifteen-year-old “Zits” has spent much of his short life alternately abused and ignored as an orphan and ward of the foster care system. Ever since his mother died, he’s felt alienated from everyone, but, thanks to the...
2) Below zero
Author
Series
Joe Pickett novels volume 9
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
In this thriller in the #1 New York Times bestselling series, a voice from the past has a chilling effect on Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett and his family... Six years ago, Joe Pickett's foster daughter, April, was murdered. Now, someone is leaving phone messages claiming to be the dead girl. As his family struggles with the disturbing event, he discovers that the calls have been placed from locations where serious environmental crimes have occurred....
3) Night road
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
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Description
When stay-at-home mom Jude Farraday takes in Lexi, a former foster child with a dark past, the girl becomes inseparable from Jude's teenage twins before a shattering accident rips the family apart and sets the stage for a sobering confrontation years later.
4) What I carry
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In her final year in foster care, seventeen-year-old Muir tries to survive her senior year before aging out of the system"--
5) Beast
Author
Publisher
Push/Scholastic
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
More than six million readers can attest to the heartbreak and courage of Dave Pelzer's story of growing up in an abusive home. His inspirational books have helped countless others triumph over hardship and misfortune. Now this former lost boy, who defeated insurmountable odds to emerge whole and happy, at last takes us on his incredible odyssey toward healing and forgiveness. In The Privilege of Youth, Pelzer supplies the missing chapter of his life:...
Author
Publisher
Atheneum
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
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Description
Ashley spent nine years in foster care after being taken away from her mother. She endured many caseworkers, moving from school to school and manipulative, humiliating and abusive treatment from one foster family. See how she survives and eventually thrives against the odds.
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