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Will I live with my parents again? Will I stay with my foster parents forever? For children in foster care, the answer to many questions is often "maybe." Maybe Days addresses the questions, feelings, and concerns these children most often face.

A novel in verse featuring a poverty-stricken boy----who has an outlet in his journals and drawings and bravely rides out all the storms life keeps throwing at him.

A girl in foster care tries to find her birth mother before she loses her forever in this “tender tale” (School Library Journal, starred review) about last chances and new opportunities.

A novel about a nonverbal girl who moves into a new foster home and her passion for space exploration.

Meet Caleb and Bobby Gene, two brothers embarking on a madcap, heartwarming, one-thing-leads-to-another adventure in which friendships are forged, loyalties are tested . . . and miracles just might happen.

Life as a bully is lonely, and if there's one thing Bernice really wants (even more than becoming a Hollywood stuntwoman), it's a true friend.

It’s a life-altering New Year for thirteen-year-old Lydia when she uproots to a Connecticut farm to live with her aunt following her mother’s death. This novel features strong female characters, an adorable dog, and the girl who comes to love him.

A triumphant tale of friendship, healing, and the power of believing in ourselves, told from the perspectives of two biracial sixth graders living in a homeless shelter.

Two Indigenous foster children discover a portal to another reality, Aski, where they embark on a dangerous mission to help the starving community there.

Through poetry, Lonnie shares his heartbreak over his lost family, his thoughtful perspective on the world around him, his love for his little sister, and his determination to put at least half of their family back together.

After March's father, who is a jewel thief, tells him about the twin sister he never knew he had, they're picked up by the police and sent to the world's worst orphanage. Are March, his twin, and new friends just one good heist away from living the life of riches and freedom that most kids only dream about?

Flora and her brother, Julian, have lived in so many foster homes, they can’t remember where they came from. So along with their new mother, Flora and Julian begin a journey to go back and discover their past—for only then can they really begin to build their future.

When Brian and his brother run away, Ezra has no choice but to take the leap and reach out. Both boys have to decide if they’re willing to risk sharing parts of themselves they’d rather hide. But if they can be brave, they might just find the best in themselves—and each other.

As Ronan and Delsie traipse around Cape Cod on their adventures, they both learn what it means to be angry versus sad, broken versus whole, and abandoned versus loved. And that, together, they can weather any storm.

When eleven-year-old Addie goes to stay with a foster family on a remote Exmoor farm in the winter, she rescues a tiny wild foal from the moorland snow and discovers that perhaps she’s not so alone after all.

After Cadie is sent to live with her aunt, she finds out that Aunt Shell’s pie shop is failing. Saving the business and protecting the first place Cadie's ever really felt safe will take everything she's learned and the help of all her new friends. 

After being bounced around between foster families and shelter stays, Pavi is a foster care expert, and she runs a "business" teaching other foster kids all she has learned.

For so long, Red has longed to have her mom back in her life, and she's quickly swept up in the vortex of her mother's chaos. Now Red must discover the possible in the impossible if she wants to overcome her own tornadoes and find the family she needs.

Carley uses humor and street smarts to keep her emotional walls high and thick. But when she goes into foster care and moves in with the Murphys, she's surprised by this loving, bustling family. Can she learn to open her heart to the family's love?

Eleven-year-old Gilly is determined to no longer be a foster kid. Before long she's devised an elaborate scheme to get her real mother to come rescue her. Unfortunately, the plan doesn't work out quite as she hoped it would...

It's 1939, Nazi Germany. Liesel Meminger is a foster girl living outside of Munich, who scratches out a meager existence for herself by stealing when she encounters something she can’t resist: books! 

It’s 1936, in Flint Michigan. Ten-year-old Bud may be a motherless boy on the run. But he's about to hit the road in search of his father, and nothing can stop him—not hunger, not fear, not vampires, not even Herman E. Calloway himself.

Twins Pew and Basket Church dream of escaping the miserable misfortune of their isolated orphanage. Or, even better, the return of their unknown parents. But even in their wildest dreams, they never imagined the truth: The twins can travel through time.

As the threat of her family being separated again circles like a shark in the water, the pressure starts to get to Kita. But could it be that Kita's worst fear is actually the best thing that could happen to her family . . . and to her?

French fries are disappearing from ovens, fryers, and freezers. And potatoes go missing right out of the bin in the middle of the day. Eager to solve her first case, 11-year-old Dotty Morgan is a supernatural sleuth ready to investigate the mysterious thefts.

A Newbery Honor-winning historical fiction novel about Ada, a 10-year-old girl with a clubfoot who escapes her abusive mother in London during WWII, joining her younger brother Jamie as an evacuee in the countryside where she learns to read, ride ponies, and experience love and trust with her new caretaker, Susan.

The Newbery Medal-winning tale of an orphan boy whose dream of becoming a master potter leads to unforeseen adventure in ancient Korea.