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181) The stone child
Author
Series
Misewa saga volume 3
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
242 pages : map ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"It's a race against time to save Eli, in this third book in the award-winning, Narnia-inspired Indigenous middle-grade fantasy series."--
"After discovering a near-lifeless Eli at the base of the Great Tree, Morgan knows she doesn't have much time to save him. And it will mean asking for help -- from friends old and new. Racing against the clock, and with Arik and Emily at her side, Morgan sets off to follow the trail away from the Great Tree to...
182) A tiny upward shove
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
342 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"A TINY UPWARD SHOVE is a fictionalized account of real life Canadian serial killer Willie Pickton and his final victim. In the debut novel of award-winning essayist, Melissa Chadburn, we follow the life of Filipina foster youth Marina Salles and are submerged in the confluence of violence and empathy, fabulism and realism. A story of how both victim and monster emerge from the same world"--
184) Romeo blue
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
346 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
During World War II, Felicity Bathburn is living in Bottlebay, Maine, with her relatives and their foster child Derek, whom she has grown to love, but when a man claiming to be Derek's true father arrives and starts asking all sorts of strange questions Felicity becomes suspicious of his motives.
Author
Pub. Date
2007.
Physical Desc
339 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
The author had fostered fifty children over twenty years but none of them had been as disturbed as Jodie, a troubled eight-year-old whose violence and aggression had seen off five foster carers in just four months. When Jodie arrived, the author had no idea what lay beneath Jodie's shocking behaviour, which included smearing feces all over the house, erupting into violent rages and even cutting herself. Little by little, as Jodie's rage was met with...
187) Had to be you
Author
Series
Bad boys of Red Hook volume 3
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
374 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
Slater knew tragedy from a young age, but with the help of his family, he turned his life around. Now, he's returned to town to help to run the family restaurant. The job has an extra benefit named Rocki. Flirty, sweet, and outgoing, Rocki is unable to resist his charms, but refuses to open her heart to him. Then a family crisis shatters her and exposes a secret from her past. Slater sets out to prove that their relationship could give them something...
Author
Series
Olive volume 4
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
214 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Summer vacation has ended and school days begin for Olive, Joy, and Macy. To celebrate the first day of school, the girls decide to sleep outside one night under a homemade tent of blankets. Olive and Macy cannot go to sleep right away. So they take a little walk to the tree bench. After talking a while, they pray a special prayer. They ask God to give Olive a brother. They girls do not know how God will answer their prayer. But one day, the Morrison...
189) A gift for Santa
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
377 pages ; 17 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A reindeer farm without Santa wouldn't be Christmas in Marissa Gray's Alaskan hometown. Luckily Chris Allen's there to pinch-hit, although for Marissa, seeing her ex-fiancé again brings back memories of what might have been."--Page [4] of cover.
190) Chameleon dad
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
303 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
Connie will never forget the day her dad went to buy her a cup of hot chocolate at an airport café - and never came back. That was eight years ago. Connie loves her foster-mum, Mags, but longs to find her dad again. When a mysterious letter appears, she vows to track him down with the help of her new friend, a fearless fossil-hunting boy called Thyo. Soon Connie is on a plane with her pet chameleon, Hue, on the most exciting, and scariest, journey...
Author
Series
Wishing Bridge novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
285 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Kelsey is on her way to a life do-over. And it's not the first time. Abandoned by her drug-addict mother as a teen, she landed in a foster-care group home where she experienced faith and community--and met her best friends, Jazz and Theadora. The trio stuck together like sisters and vowed to make their lives mean something. Now Kelsey's pushing thirty, and her life has taken a wrong turn. Pregnant and alone after loving the wrong man, she's on her...
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
298 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Maddy Adriana knows that magic is real. All her life, her heart has pulled her toward things too perfect to be ordinary, things no one else can see. And then there's the bracelet she's worn since she was a baby; a bracelet that grows as she grows and doesn't come off. Knowing that magic exists has made it a little easier to be a foster kid bounced between homes. Then, one day, Maddy feels a ... tug. It leads her to Il Circo delle Strade, the magical...
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
298 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Kids in danger are treated instrumentally to promote the rehabilitation of their parents, the welfare of their communities, and the social justice of their race and tribe--all with the inevitable result that their most precious developmental years are lost in bureaucratic and judicial red tape. It is time to stop letting efforts to fix the child welfare system get derailed by activists who are concerned with race-matching, blood ties, and the abstract...
195) Shazam!: origins
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
"Young orphan Billy Batson has bounced from foster home to foster home, but he's far from the ideal child. Brash and rude, Billy is a troubled teen who just can't seem to find a calling. But after a fateful night on a subway car, that all will change. Brought to the feet of the magical wizard Shazam at the Rock of Eternity, Billy is imbued with powers beyond any mortal man. By shouting the wizard's name--Shazam!--the young teen is mystically transformed...
196) Relative strangers
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
359 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Why is there a gap in Jules's baby album? A wry and poignant coming-of-age novel about finding the truth in lies, salvaging hope in heartbreak, and making peace with missing pieces. Eighteen-year-old Jules has always wished for a close-knit family. She never knew her father, and her ex-addict mother has always seemed more interested in artistic endeavors than in bonding with her only daughter. Jules's life and future look as flat and unchanging...
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