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Author
Publisher
Starscape, Tom Doherty Associates Book
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"The Otherworld is at war. The Academy for the Unbreakable Arts trains warriors. And Kelcie Murphy-a foster child raised in the human world-is dying to attend. A place at AUA means meeting Scáthach, the legendary trainer of Celtic heroes. It means learning to fight with a sword. It means harnessing her hidden powers and-most importantly-finding out who her parents are, and why they abandoned her in Boston Harbor eight years ago. When Kelcie tests...
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
After an incident shatters their family, eleven-year-old Samantha Littlefield and her older sister, Caitlin, are sent to live in rural Oregon with an aunt they've never met. Sam wants nothing more than to go back to the way thing were ... before she spoke up. When Aunt Vicky gives Sam a mysterious card game called A Game of Fox & Squirrels, Sam falls in love with the animal characters, especially the charming trickster fox, Ashander. Then one day...
63) Quiet no more
Author
Series
Publisher
Flux
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"As college freshman Victoria Parker moves on with her life after surviving sexual assault by her father and six months in foster care, she realizes she must muster courage to confront her past while staying true to herself." --
College freshman Victoria Parker is trying to move on with her life after surviving sexual assault by her father and six months in foster care. She's focusing on the positives-- attending college, living on her own, repairing...
64) The P.A.N
Author
Series
PAN trilogy ; 1
Publisher
Midnight Tide Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Since her parents were killed, Vivienne has always felt ungrounded, shuffled through the foster care system. Just when liberation finally seems possible-days before her eighteenth birthday-Vivienne is hospitalized with symptoms no one can explain. The doctors may be puzzled, but Deacon, her mysterious new friend, claims she has an active Nevergene. His far-fetched diagnosis comes with a warning: she is about to become an involuntary test subject...
65) Bound for home
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Max the puppy has fallen in love. From the moment Emi walks into the shelter with her long black hair and bright smile, he knows she's meant to be his forever person. Emi's family has just moved to Maine from Japan, and he can tell that she is in desperate need of a friend like Max. After Emi adopts him, Max goes to live with her high up on a mountain homestead where he explores his new world and spends his days annoying the other family pet, a...
66) Iz the apocalyse
Author
Publisher
Common Deer Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"When fourteen-year-old foster kid Iz Beaufort fakes her way into prestigious music school, she mustkeep her school life and foster life separate or she'll be kicked out of both school and her current fosterhome. But a chance to pursue music--to have a voice--might be worth risking everything. A spark ignites inside fourteen-year-old Iz Beaufort when she hears school music group Manifesto perform. Even though she hasn't written a song since That Place,...
67) Shazam!: origins
Author
Publisher
DC Comics
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Young orphan Billy Batson has bounced from foster home to foster home, but he's far from the ideal child. Brash and rude, Billy is a troubled teen who just can't seem to find a calling. But after a fateful night on a subway car, that all will change. Brought to the feet of the magical wizard Shazam at the Rock of Eternity, Billy is imbued with powers beyond any mortal man. By shouting the wizard's name--Shazam!--the young teen is mystically transformed...
