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81) Untouchable
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Cutler, Sutter & Salinas volume 3
Cutler Sutter and Salinas volume 3
Cutler Sutter and Salinas volume v3
Cutler Sutter and Salinas volume 3
Cutler Sutter and Salinas volume v3
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"A man's quest to find answers for those who are haunted by the past leads him deeper into the shadows in this electrifying novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Promise Not to Tell. Quinton Zane is back. Jack Lancaster, consultant to the FBI, has always been drawn to the coldest of cold cases, the kind that law enforcement either considers unsolvable or else has chalked up to accidents or suicides. As a survivor of a fire, he finds...
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Like everyone else in the Panopticon, 15-year-old Anais Hendricks has been in and out of foster care practically since birth. "[B]orn in a nuthouse to nobody that was ever seen again, " she had her only successful foster placement with a prostitute later stabbed to death (Anais found the body). She's been sent to this facility, where the inmates are under constant surveillance, because she had a bad history with a policewoman who has been bludgeoned...
83) Noah's rights
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Living in the hood, urban author Olivia befriends Noah, an underprivileged foster kid whose issues force Olivia to wrangle her own demons.
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Black Authors: Chapter Books & Graphic Novels (SCPL-YS)
Black Lives Fiction
Fourth Grade
OBD Books Make Good Friends (March - May 2024) - YOUTH
Black Lives Fiction
Fourth Grade
OBD Books Make Good Friends (March - May 2024) - YOUTH
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Caleb Franklin and his big brother Bobby Gene have the whole summer for adventures in the woods behind their house in Sutton, Indiana. Caleb dreams of venturing beyond their ordinary small town, but his dad likes the family to stay close to home. Then Caleb and Bobby Gene meet new neighbor Styx Malone. Styx is sixteen and oozes cool. He's been lots of different places. Styx promises Caleb and Bobby Gene that together, they can pull off the Great Escalator...
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17-year-old Raven Jamison, and her three best friends, Nia, Jasmine, and Trinity, make up "The Brown Girls Club." The girls spend long and carefree days in their bayou town of Lake Lacroix, nestled behind the big city of New Orleans. A dinner time knock at the door abruptly changes everything. When child protective services descend on their doorstep dropping off her younger cousin Carter, Raven is suddenly thrust into a brand new reality. Generational...
88) Three pennies
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Referring to the I-Ching and a trio of good-luck pennies whenever she is bounced to a new foster home, Marin finds herself in a place that feels like a forever home while trying to find her birth mother, before receiving unwelcome news.
89) Foster families
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"Simple text and photographs present foster families, including how family members interact with one another"--Provided by publisher.
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"The Dane family's roots tangle deep in the Ozark Mountain town of Henbane, but that doesn't keep sixteen-year-old Lucy Dane from being treated like an outsider. Folks still whisper about her mother, a bewitching young stranger who inspired local myths when she vanished years ago. When one of Lucy's few friends, slow-minded Cheri, is found murdered, Lucy feels haunted by the two lost girls--the mother she never knew and the friend she couldn't protect....
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The foster care system is complicated and intimidating, which makes it all the more difficult for young people. This book outlines the steps, procedures, rules, and expectations involved in the often-frustrating world of foster care. Readers receive straightforward guidance in a reassuring, approachable, and inspiring tone.
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"Stella Clarke has resolved to find the perfect buyer for her foster mother's beloved home. She never expects Ian Steele, a fellow foster turned millionaire developer, to make an offer. Stella knows too much about Ian to believe he wants the house in Christmas Bay to raise a family--he is simply not the settling down type. But after Ian agrees to live in the small town for the holidays, Stella's new resolution was not to fall for his charm...and resist...
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"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...
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"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"--
95) Etched in sand: a true story of five siblings who survived an unspeakable childhood on Long Island
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Calcaterra and her siblings endured a series of foster homes and intermittent homelessness in the shadow of the Hamptons. She managed to rise above her past while fighting to keep her brother and three sisters together. An unforgettable reminder that, regardless of social status, the American dream is still within reach for those who have the desire and the determination to succeed.
96) The less dead
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When Margo goes in search of her birth mother for the first time, she meets her aunt, Nikki, instead. Margo learns that her mother, Susan, was a sex worker murdered soon after Margo's adoption. To this day, Susan's killer has never been found. Nikki asks Margo for help. She has received threatening and haunting letters from the murderer, for decades. She is determined to find him, but she can't do it alone ...
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Encanto Read-alikes
Hispanic Heritage Month 2022
OBD Latinx & Hispanic Heritage Month (September 15-October 15) - Youth
Unidos: Celebrate Hispanic Heritage (kids)
Hispanic Heritage Month 2022
OBD Latinx & Hispanic Heritage Month (September 15-October 15) - Youth
Unidos: Celebrate Hispanic Heritage (kids)
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Eleven-year-old Danny Monteverde believes in magic, he believes that the enchanted land of Rio Luna in his older sister's favorite book is real, and most of all he believes that if he can find the way to Rio Luna he will find his sister Pili there, because he does not believe that his sister would run away from the group home where they lived and leave him behind; but after years of being passed from one foster family to another his faith begins to...
98) Hotel for dogs
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Foster children Andi and Bruce have been placed with a flaky couple who care more for their aspiring rock careers than their charges. Their mischievous tendencies repeatedly get them into trouble. After a close call with the local pound, the kids end up searching for Friday, their secretly adopted dog, in an abandoned old hotel where they find several other stray dogs seeking shelter. They, along with three other local kids, begin caring for the strays....
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Legend of Joey volume 1
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"Joey Getchie has been property of the state longer than he was in parental custody. But he's a survivor, and he has a Plan: graduate high school and get out of the foster care system before it eats him alive. He bonds with Trisha, another foster, who seems to have lucked out when it comes to foster parents. A false accusation leads to a physical clash with his foster father, so Joey flees to Huntzel Manor, where he works part time. He takes up unauthorized...
100) Kiss me hello
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Sweetest kisses novels volume 3
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"Single mom Sidonie Lindstrom has her hands full with a troubled foster son, an abrupt adjustment to country living, and an unforeseen lack of funds. When her taciturn neighbor, MacKenzie Knightley, repeatedly offers practical help, Sid reminds herself she's not interested--despite his kindness, pragmatism, and quiet charm. MacKenzie sees the vulnerability beneath her pride, and he's determined to change her mind..., "-- page [4] of cover.
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