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Four on Friday: Foster Care
This summer and into the fall I read a number of middle grade novels centered around foster care. According to AdoptUSKids.org, there are over 400,000 children in foster care in the United States. This means that most likely whether you know it or not, there are foster kids in your…
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Blogging From A to Z Challenge – Foster Care
Today completes the first week of the Blogging from A to Z Challenge. So far I’ve created 11 book lists and am looking forward to creating a lot more throughout the month. Today’s focus is on the letter “F” and so I thought the best choice would be to offer…
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"What does it mean to be a family?"
Synopsis: Grace has had a rough few months – she misses the Homecoming Dance because she gives birth to her daughter the same night and puts her up for adoption, finds out that although she grew up an only child is actually the middle child with an older brother in foster…
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20 Titles for National Foster Care Month
I’m always looking for ways to create book lists that I think are needed by people around the world, so when I saw that May is National Foster Care Month, I knew it would be a great time to gather some titles that show kids in foster care. I tried…
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Almost Home
Almost Home written by one of my personal favorites – Joan Bauer and is about a 12-year-old girl named Sugar. When her grandfather dies and her father runs off yet again, Sugar’s mother loses their home and Sugar is left homeless – lost and confused and unsure where to turn.…
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One for the Murphys
When Carly Connors in placed in the foster care system at the age of twelve after an incident at home with her mother and step-father she is blindsided. The Murphy family with whom she is placed is drastically different from how she grew up and although it takes a little…
