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2019., Ages 8-12, Roaring Brook Press Call No: Y LAC Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Red's inexplicable power over the wind comes from her mother. Whenever Ruby "Red" Byrd is scared or angry, the wind picks up. And being placed in foster care, moving from family to family, tends to keep her skies stormy. Red knows she has to learn to control it, but can't figure out how. This time, the wind blows Red into the home of the Grooves, a quirky couple who run a petting zoo, complete with a dancing donkey and a giant tortoise. With their own curious gifts, Celine and Jackson Groove seem to fit like a puzzle piece into Red's heart. But just when Red starts to settle into her new life, a fresh storm rolls in, one she knows all too well: her mother. 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,"--Amazon.com.
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c2002., Adult, Shaye Areheart Books Call No: FIC BOH Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Terry and Laura Sheldon lose their 9-year-old twins in a flash flood. After a year of putting their lives back together, the couple, who are unable to have more children, decide to adopt a 10-year-old African American boy.
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c1999., Ages 3-6, National Geographic Society Call No: YM SKU Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Mysteries in our national parks Volume: #2Summary Note: Twelve-year-old Jack and his younger sister visit Mesa Verde National Park, where they delve into the park's history while gradually uncovering the mysterious past of their family's teenage foster child Lucky.
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2000., 5-8; 6.3, Gareth Stevens Pub. Call No: Y NIX Edition: [Large print ed.]. Availability:0 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Orphan train adventures Volume: #5Summary Note: In 1861, while living with his foster parents at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, twelve-year-old Mike Kelly and his best friend Todd Blakely join the Union army as drummer boys but their dreams of glory end when they experience the full horrors of war at the Battle of Wilson's Creek in Missouri.
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c2000., Ages 3-6, National Geographic Society Call No: YM SKU Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Mysteries in our national parks Volume: #6Summary Note: Visiting Zion National Park with his family, twelve-year-old Jack encounters two mysteries, the strange behavior of a band of wild mustangs and the possibly sinister actions of his new foster brother, a Shoshone boy.
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c2008., Adult, Bethany House Call No: FIC SAW Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Three Irish immigrant children, orphaned in a tenement fire, are sent on the orphan train to Missouri where they are adopted by different families, and although Maelle had vowed to one day reunite with her younger brother and sister, seventeen years later she is about to give up hope.
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c2004., Adult, Multnomah Publishers Call No: FIC LAC Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Frontier doctor trilogy Volume: bk. 1Summary Note: In 1880, Dr. Dane Logan finds himself in a dangerous situation when fate makes him a target for Tag Moran and his vicious gang, who threaten Dane's life, and his happiness with the love of his life.
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c2002., Ages 3-6, National Geographic Society Call No: YM SKU Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Mysteries in our national parks Volume: #10Summary Note: Jack, Ashley, and their unreliable new foster sister set out to solve the mystery of why whales are beaching themselves at Acadia National Park.
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2000, c1989., 5-8; 6.1, Gareth Stevens Pub. Call No: Y NIX Edition: [Large print ed.]. Availability:0 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Orphan train adventures Volume: #4Summary Note: In 1860, having traveled with his young sister from New York to a foster home on a farm near St. Joseph, Missouri, ten-year-old Danny plots to get his newly-widowed foster father to send for and marry his mother.
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2005., 5.4; 5-8, Scholastic Press Call No: Y HOR Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Gatekeepers Volume: bk. 1Summary Note: Sent to live in a foster home in a remote Yorkshire village, Matt, a troubled fourteen-year-old English boy, uncovers an evil plot involving witchcraft and the site of an ancient stone circle.
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2012., Young Adult, Farrar Straus Giroux Call No: YA RUT Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Sixteen-year-old Darcy Jones knows little about her past except that she was abandoned outside a Chicago firehouse at age five, but when the mysterious Conn arrives at her high school she begins to discover things about her past that she is not sure she likes.
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c1995., 5-8; 6.1, HarperPaperbacks Call No: Y CAM Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Thoroughbred Volume: #12Summary Note: Samantha befriends Cindy, a foster home runaway, and struggles to find a way for Cindy to stay at Whitebrook.
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c2002., Ages 3-6, National Geographic Society Call No: YM SKU Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Mysteries in our national parks Volume: #8Summary Note: The Landon family makes a trip to Death Valley National Park accompanied by a mysterious new foster child, fourteen-year-old Leesa Sherman.