Foster home care

The Lost Boy

The author tells of his experiences in five foster homes and juvenile detention, after he was taken away from his abusive mother and alcoholic father, and discusses how he made it into the Air Force,

Biography, Child abuse, Children of alcoholics, Daly City (Calif.), Domestic violence

92
PEL

What Child Is This?

Caroline B. Cooney

When seventeen-year-old Matt tries to find a family for an eight-year-old foster child, his attempt backfires and both of them need a Christmas miracle.

Christmas, fiction, Foster home care, Gifts

FIC
COO

Vertical file with articles on care of children placed in foster homes.

Adoption, Foster home care

VF
362.7
FOS

Adoption

Vertical file with information on adoption.

Adoption, Foster home care

VF
346.01
ADO

Dakota Dream

James W. Bennett

After being shuttled between foster homes and institutions for most of his life, fifteen-year-old Floyd Rayfield escapes from a mental institution to a Sioux reservation, desperately seeking a family

Dakota Indians, fiction, Foster home care, Indians of North America

FIC
BEN

Rainbow Jordan

Alice Childress

Her mother, her foster guardian, and 14-year-old Rainbow comment on the state of things as she prepares to return to a foster home for yet another stay.

Afro-Americans, fiction, Foster home care, Mothers and daughters

FIC
CHI

Caught in the Act

Joan Lowery Nixon

Eleven-year-old Michael Patrick Kelly from New York City is sent to a foster home, a Missouri farm with a sadistic owner, a bullying son, and a number of secrets, one of which may be murder.

Farm life, fiction, Foster home care, Missouri

FIC
NIX

The Suitcases

Anne Hall Whitt

Biography, Foster home care, Orphans, Southern States

362.7
WHI

The Pinballs

Betsy Cromer Byars

Three lonely foster children learn to care about themselves and each other.

fiction, Foster home care, Friendship

FIC
BYA