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While learning to bestow dreams, a young dream giver tries to save an eight-year-old boy from the effects of both his abusive past and the nightmares inflicted on him by the frightening Sinisteeds.

A troublesome twelve-year-old orphan, staying with an elderly artist who needs her, remembers the only other time she was happy in a foster home, with a family that truly seemed to care about her.

A group of foster children build a home of their own.

"Jack, 12, tells the gripping story of Joseph, 14, who joins his family as a foster child. Damaged in prison, Joseph wants nothing more than to find his baby daughter, Jupiter, whom he has never seen. When Joseph has begun to believe he'll have a future, he is confronted by demons from his past that force a tragic sacrifice"--

When the state of Maine threatens to shut down their island's one-room schoolhouse because of dwindling enrollment, eleven-year-old Tess, a strong believer in luck, and her family take in a trumpet-playing foster child, to increase the school's population.

Runaway Carolina is hiding out at Harmony Farm in 1964 trying to come to terms with the death of her father, mother and baby brother. She is holding her secrets close while the Harmonys patiently wait to hear her story. Then Russell, a troublemaker who lives in the foster home Carolina ran away from, secretly comes to Harmony Farm and Carolina thinks he is a friend. One night something so terrible happens that Carolina, desperate to stay, has no...

An eleven-year-old foster child tries to cope with her longings and fears as she schemes against everyone who tries to be friendly. At eleven, Gilly is nobody's real kid. If only she could find her beautiful mother, Courtney, and live with her instead of in the ugly foster home where she has just been placed! How could she, the great Gilly Hopkins, known throughout the county for her brilliance and unmanageability, be expected to tolerate Maime Trotter,...

Victor and Isaac are nervous. There's a chance that their mother will be released from prison. What might this mean for their family? The brothers and their sisters could return to each other, but at what cost? Although their mother says she's turned over a new leaf, the boys aren't certain they can trust her to keep their family together

In this twist on "The Nightingale," Little John, despite his own poverty and grief, reaches out to Gayle, an unhappy foster child living next-door who sings beautifully and hides a great secret.

Sixth grader Mary Giaccio, a foster child yearning for her real mother, tries to substitute Mrs. Wakefield for her mother, but those attempts may jeopardize her friendship with Jessica and Elizabeth.