Catalog Search Results
1) Foster
Author
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
"An international bestseller and one of The Times's "Top 50 Novels Published in the 21st Century," Claire Keegan's piercing contemporary classic Foster is a heartbreaking story of childhood, loss, and love, now released as a standalone book for the first time ever in the US. It is a hot summer in rural Ireland. A child is taken by her father to live with relatives on a farm, not knowing when or if she will be brought home again. In the Kinsellas'...
2) The mailbox
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
When twelve-year-old Gabe tries to hide his uncle's death from the local authorities, he is not prepared for what happens when this secret is discovered
Author
Series
Unforgettable Logan Foster volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Appears on these lists
Description
Logan, an undersized twelve-year-old orphan with a photographic memory and no filter, discovers that his foster parents are superheroes in grave danger and only Logan's highly logical mind can save them
6) Touch blue
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
When the state of Maine threatens to shut down their island's one-room schoolhouse because of dwindling enrollment, eleven-year-old Tess, a strong believer in luck, and her family take in a trumpet-playing foster child, to increase the school's population
7) Little Cub
Author
Publisher
Philomel
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A young bear cub, who is alone in the world, and Old Bear, who is grumpy and tired of living alone, meet and discover what they have been missing
8) The pinballs
Author
Publisher
HarperTrophy
Pub. Date
1987, c1977
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Three lonely foster children learn to care about themselves and each other
9) Fast break
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Since his mother's death, Jayson, twelve, has focused on basketball and surviving but he is found out and placed with an affluent foster family of a different race, and must learn to accept many changes, including facing his former teammates in a championship game
10) Blizzard Night
Author
Series
Disaster strikes (Marlane Kennedy) volume 3
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2015
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Taking a winter trip to bond with his new foster family, Jayden and his siblings Maggie and Connor are forced by a terrible car accident into a bleak storm to search for help and survive the elements
14) Orbiting Jupiter
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
"Jack, 12, tells the gripping story of Joseph, 14, who joins his family as a foster child. Damaged in prison, Joseph wants nothing more than to find his baby daughter, Jupiter, whom he has never seen. When Joseph has begun to believe he'll have a future, he is confronted by demons from his past that force a tragic sacrifice"--
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Laura Rodríguez Colón has a plan: no matter what the grown-ups say, she will live with her parents again. Can you blame her? It's tough to make friends as the new kid at school. And while staying at her aunt's house is okay, it just isn't the same as being in her own space. So when Laura finds a puppy, it seems like fate. If she can train the puppy to become a therapy dog, then maybe she'll be allowed to visit her parents. Maybe the dog will help...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A moving novel" of a family's struggle with trauma written in "clear prose" that lends "a luminous quality to [a] story of thriving against the odds"(People magazine).
Sarah Laden, a young widow and mother of two, struggles to keep her family together. Since the death of her husband, her teenage son, Nate, has developed a rebellious streak. Her kindhearted younger son, Danny, struggles to pass his remedial classes. All the while,...
Sarah Laden, a young widow and mother of two, struggles to keep her family together. Since the death of her husband, her teenage son, Nate, has developed a rebellious streak. Her kindhearted younger son, Danny, struggles to pass his remedial classes. All the while,...
18) Homeroom diaries
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
Seventeen-year-old Margaret "Cuckoo" Clark keeps a journal detailing the trials and tribulations of high school life as she and her close-knit group of outcast friends try to break down the barriers between their school's "warring nations."
19) Blackberry Beach
Author
Series
Hope Harbor volume 7
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Katherine Parker is on the cusp of having everything she ever wanted - fame, money, and acclaim. So why isn't she happy? In search of answers, she comes incognito to Hope Harbor on the Oregon coast for some R&R. Maybe in her secluded rental house overlooking the serene Pacific she'll be able to calm the storm inside. Coffee shop owner Zach Garrett has found his niche after a traumatic loss - and he has no plans to change the life he's created. Nor...
20) Welcome Comfort
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
c1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Welcome Comfort, a lonely foster child, is assured by his friend the school custodian that there is a Santa Claus, but he does not discover the truth until one wondrous and surprising Christmas Eve
In Find More Illinois
Didn't find what you need? Items not owned by Helen Plum Library can be requested from other Find More Illinois libraries to be delivered to your local library for pickup.
Didn't find it?
We are constantly adding to our collection! Make a request and we'll consider the submission along with the needs of the community. Submit Request