For readers of Tommy Orange's There There and Terese Marie Mailhot's Heart Berries, Probably Ruby is an audacious, brave and beautiful book about an adopted woman's search for her Indigenous identity. Relinquished as an infant, Ruby is...
Foster children
- Author:Bird-Wilson, LisaSummary:
- Author:Panteleakos, NicoleSummary:
"Tender and illuminating. A beautiful debut."-Rebecca Stead, Newbery Medal-winning author of When You Reach Me A heartrending and hopeful debut novel about a nonverbal girl and her passion for space exploration, for fans of See You in...
- Author:McClintock, NorahSummary:
Ethan lives in a foster home, struggling to put his life on the right track. Involved in a photography program for at-risk kids, he finds himself threatened again and again by someone who wants his camera. What does Ethan know? And what...
- Author:Horvath, PollySummary:
Shortlisted for the CLA Book of the Year for Children Award and the IODE Violet Downey Book Award. Selected for the Bankstreet College of Education's Best Children’s Books of the Year 2013. Readers rejoice -- Primrose Squarp is back!...
- Author:Peterson, Tanya J.Summary:
From the author of Leave of Absence comes another compelling tale of the human psyche. A brilliant and talented man crippled by extreme anxiety and panic attacks, Brian has carefully crafted his world so that his interactions with...
- Author:Skidmore, Patricia, Brown, GordonSummary:
Her family broken apart and her identity taken away, she had to forget her past in order to face her future. But forgetting isn’t forever. Taken from their mother’s care and deported from England to the colonies, ten-year-old Marjorie...
- Author:Goudreault, David, Sutcliffe, JCSummary:
My mother was always committing suicide. She started out young, in an amateur capacity. But it didn't take long for Mama to work out how to make psychiatrists take notice, and to get the respect reserved for the most serious cases....
- Author:Heather, O'NeillSummary:
Baby, all of thirteen years old, is lost in the gangly, coltish moment between childhood and the strange pulls and temptations of the adult world. Her mother is dead; her father Jules is always on the lookout for his next score. Baby...
- Author:Lyons, S. P. JosephSummary:
Algonquin author S.P. Joseph Lyons, from Kitigan Zibi First Nation, was placed in foster care as a young child and is a survivor of the Sixties Scoop. Foster Care can be scary and lonely. Through S.P. Joseph Lyons' experiences, the...
- Author:Willett, EdwardSummary:
The third Shard of the sword Excalibur is calling Ariane. From a really, really long way away.
In the third instalment of this modern take on Arthurian legends, Ariane – descendant of none other than the Lady of the Lake herself...
- Author:Gauvreau, ClaudetteSummary:
« Aujourd’hui, mercredi 30 juin 1993, première journée d’écriture. C’est une date très importante à mes yeux. Je sais pertinemment que je vais blesser ou bouleverser certaines personnes de mon entourage en écrivant ces lignes, mais c’...
- Author:McIntyre, HopeSummary:
Jasmine bursts into the world unlike your typical newborn child and is anointed a "jail baby." Born in prison, raised by a mother who revolves in and out of the correctional system, tossed in and out of foster care, Jasmine is...
- Author:Sinclair, Raven, Vermette, Katherena, Mosionier, BeatriceSummary:
In this moving story of legacy and reclamation, two young sisters are taken from their home and family. Powerless in a broken system, April and Cheryl are separated and placed in different foster homes. Despite the distance, they remain...
- Author:Peel, JenniferSummary:
Dani Kramer used to think growing up in foster homes was the most difficult thing she would ever have to do until all her dreams come true. Married to the love of her life, Dr. Brock Holland, and running a foundation that specializes in...
- Author:Qamaniq-Mason, Kevin, Qamaniq-Mason, MarySummary:
Pakak is in a new foster home, with new people, new food, and new smells. Feeling alone and uncertain, Pakak finds comfort in a secret shared with him by his anaanattiaq, his grandmother, and in the knowledge that he is loved no matter...
- Author:John-Kehewin, WandaSummary:
Fourteen-year-old Eva's life is like her shoes: rapidly falling apart. With Nohkum in the hospital, Eva's mother struggles to keep things together and loses custody of Eva and her little brother. As Eva tries to adjust to living in a...
- Author:French, LeeSummary:
After six difficult years in foster care, Claire's vocabulary no longer includes "hope" and "trust." But everything changes when Justin, a Spirit Knight restlessly hunting dangerous ghosts that devour the living, rides into her path on...
- Author:Shaw, LianeSummary:
Her name is Sadie, but she might as well be called Fostergirl. Grouphomegirl. That’s how everyone thinks of her. Sadie doesn’t care. In fact, she’d be happier if they didn’t think of her at all. Her goal is to go unnoticed, to disappear...
- Author:Thomas, JanisSummary:
After years of battling with her troubled mother, Louise has found peace in her solitary existence. Until the day Grace crashes back into her life and entreats Louise to help her save a child from imminent danger.
- Author:Bradley, Kimberly BrubakerSummary:
*Newbery Honor Book* * Odyssey Honor Audiobook * A candid and fierce middle grade novel about sisterhood and sexual abuse, by two-time Newbery Honor winner and #1 New York Times best seller Kimberly Brubaker Bradley, author of The...
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