Foster Care

Forever or a Long Long Time

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Copies: 6

Love is never divided, only multiplied. I hold my breath to keep all the tears inside until I'm safely in the bathroom. Then I turn on the water and I breathe deep deep deep like Dr. Fredrick taught me. I stand there and breathe breathe breathe until the crying stops.
It's not happening again, I tell myself.
It will never happen again.
You have to believe.

It's the only promise Person has ever asked us to make.

Author:

Caela Carter

Lexile:

570L

All Rise for the Honorable Perry T. Cook

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Copies: 6

Eleven-year-old Perry T. Cook shouldn't be living in a prison; he has committed no crime.

Perry was born and raised at the Blue River Co-ed Correctional Facility in tiny Surprise, Nebraska. His mom is a resident on Cell Block C. So far, Warden Daugherty has made it possible for them to be together. Anyone who knows about the arrangement is quietly okay with it. But when Perry is discovered by the new, ambitious district attorney, Thomas VanLeer, everything changes.

Author:

Leslie Connor

Lexile:

540L

All Rise for the Honorable Perry T. Cook

A Tangle of Knots

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Copies: 7

In a remarkable world where many people are blessed with a special Talent, eleven-year-old Cady is an orphan with a phenomenal ability for cake baking...and no idea of the journey that Fate set in place for her the moment she was born. But when Cady moves into an upstairs room in the town's Lost Luggage Emporium, she meets a curious cast of characters whose lives are tangled with her own in ways she never could have imagined. There's a ragtag group of siblings struggling to grow beyond their Talents, the woman without any words, and the devious thief on a single-minded mission.

Author:

Lisa Graff

Lexile:

840L