Books for 8 to 12 year olds on Foster Care and Foster Parents Included is a brief description of the book

Books for 8 to 12 year olds on
Foster Care and Foster Parents

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Title	Subtitle	Author	Year
Adam & Eve and Pinch Me		Johnston, Julie
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Sara Moone is an expert on broken hearts. She is a foster child who has been bounced from home to home but now that she's almost sixteen the end is in sight .

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Adopted Jane		Daringer, Helen F.
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A young orphan girl experiences life outside the orphanage for the first time when she is invited to live with two different families one summer.

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Anna Casey's Place in the World		Fogelin, Adrian
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Fresh out of relatives, twelve-year-old Anna Casey arrives at Miss Dupree's house wondering what it will be like to be a foster child. Safely tucked inside her backpack are her explorer's notebook filled with carefully drawn maps of her earlier neighborhoods and her collection of rocks from all the places she has called home.

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A Place To Belong	Orphan Train Adventures	Nixon, Joan Lowery
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During the years from 1854 to 1929, the Children's Aid Society, founded by Charles Loring Brace, sent more than 100,000 children on orphan trains from the slums of New York City to new homes in the West. This placing-out program was so successful that other groups, such as the New York Foundling Hospital, followed the example. The Orphan Train Quartet follows the story of the six Kelly children, whose widowed mother has sent them west from New York City in 1856 because she realizes she cannot give them the life they deserve.

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Edgar Allan		Neufeld, John
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Edgar Allan is a book for readers of all ages. Written from the point of view of a twelve-year-old boy, it tells the story of what happens to a middle-class, suburban ---- and white-----family that decides to adopt a black child. It examines through the clear eyes of a boy about to become a man the failures and weaknesses of our society.

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Emma's Story		Hodge, Deborah
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Emma doesn't look like the other members of her family; does that mean she doesn't belong? In this tender story, Emma learns that there are many ways to come together and form a family.

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Facts About Foster Families, The		Barmat, Jeanne
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Describes foster home care, the different circumstances which may make it necessary for a child to live with foster parents, and potential problems and their solutions.

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Finding the Right Spot	When Kids Can't Live with Their Parents	Levy, Janice
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A young girl living with her foster parent describes the emotional ups and downs of being separated from her mother and living in unfamiliar surroundings.

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Great Gilly Hopkins, The		Paterson, Katherine
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Eleven year old Gilly is famous for being brash, brilliant, and completely unmanageable. None of her foster homes has been able to tame her. Son when Gilly is sent to live with the Trotters - by far the strangest foster family of all- she decides to put her brilliant mind to work.

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Handle and the Key, The	About Being Adopted	Neufeld, John
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Pre-teen novel about elementary school age Dan, who has spent most of his short life moving from one foster home to another. Now that the Knox family is adopting him, he can't believe that it will last.

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Helping Your Child Become a Responsible Citizen
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With activities for elementary, middle and high school-aged children.

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Helping Your Child Learn History
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With activities for children in preschool through grade 5

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Helping Your Child Learn Mathematics
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With activities for children in preschool through grade 5

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Helping Your Child Learn Science
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With activities for children in preschool through grade 5

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Helping Your Child through Early Adolescence
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For parents of children from 10 through 14

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Helping Your Child with Homework
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For parents of children in elementary through middle school

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Holding Up the Earth		Gray, Dianne E.
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Fourteen-year-old Hope visits her new foster mother's Nebraska farm and, through old letters, a diary, and stories, gets a vivid picture of the past in the voices of four girls her age who lived there in 1869, 1900, 1936, and 1960.

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How it Feels to be Adopted		Krementz, Jill
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New more attractive publication of an older book. Each chapter tells the adoption story of a school age or teen child from that child's point of view. Complete with lots of b&w photos, the kids tell us in their own words what it means to be adopted

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I'd Rather Be With a Real Mom Who Loves Me	A Story for Foster Children	Gordon, Michael
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By reading this book you will be communicating important messages to the foster child. You will make it clear that many of the thoughts & feelings he/she experiences are normal rather than odd or shameful.

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Maybe Days	A Book For Children In Foster Care	Wright, Marcia Kahn
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This book addresses the questions, feelings and concerns these children most often face when in foster care.

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My Foster Care Journey		O'Malley, Beth
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Fill in the blank pages to record information about birth parents, foster care (including multiple placements), adoption, or reunification memories, and "All About Me." Book contains a simple explanation of the whys & hows of foster care.

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My Foster Family	A story for children entering foster care	Levine, Jennifer
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This book introduces such concepts as social worker, foster mother, foster home, visit with a birthparent in a way that is realistic and respectful of children. A young boy, Jamal, goes to the agency with his foster mom, Mama Pat, to have a supervised visit with his mother. His social worker, Ramon, plans to oversee the visit. Other children are in the waiting room and Jamal talks to them. He explains to the children about foster care, expressing his feelings openly and honestly.

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Little Heroes		Baltazar, Art
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A Comic book for children explaining Foster care and adoption

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Living in Two Worlds		Rosenberg, Maxine B.
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A photo essay about the special world of bi-racial children, who experience the advantages of two different cultures but sometimes face problems and prejudices.

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Long Journey Home, The		Delaney, Richard
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Children's book that facilitates the discussion of grief and loss along with a desire to search for biological links.

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Mad Isn't Bad	A Child's Book About Anger	Mundy, Michealene
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This book is about children having choices- just as caring adults have choices about what they teach children about anger. Through understanding what anger feels like and what triggers it, we can learn and teach healthy ways to handle it.

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More Hot Stuff to Help Kids Chill Out	The Anger and Stress Management Book	Wilde, Jerry, Ph.D
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This follow-up to the popular original Hot Stuff provides children & adolescents with new ideas to cope with anger & hostility. It also has ideas for managing stress.

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Ocean Within, The		Caldwell, V.M.
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Pre-teen novel about 11 year old Elizabeth, the newest member of her loud and affectionate adoptive family. From her previous experiences in foster care, Elizabeth does not believe that her family will keep her. They all adjust while vacationing at Grandma's.

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Orphan Train Rider	One Boy's True Story	Warren, Andrea
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Discusses the placement of over 200,000 orphaned or abandoned children in homes throughout the Midwest from 1854 to 1929 by recounting the story of one boy and his brothers.

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Sad Isn't Bad	A Good Grief Guidebook for Kids Dealing with Loss	Mundy, Michealene
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This book offers children of all ages a comforting, realistic look at loss-loaded with positive, life affirming helps for coping with loss as a child.

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Secret Language of the SB, The		Scarboro, Elizabeth	1990
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In this moving fiction, 11 year old Adam, an only child, is not thrilled that his parents have agreed to care temporarily for an 11 year old Taiwanese girl until her adoptive family is ready for her. In time, however, he comes to enjoy her company.

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Story of Tracy Beaker, The		Wilson, Jaqueline
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Tracy's not exactly sure what her mother does, because Tracy has been in foster care as long as she can remember. She is a ten year old girl wonder and daughter of a famous Hollywood actress.

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We Rode the Orphan Trains		Warren, Andrea
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They were "throwaway" kids, living on the streets or in orphanages and foster homes. Then Charles Loring Brace, a young minister in New York City, started the Children's Aid Society and devised a plan to give these homeless waifs a chance at finding families they could call their own. Thus began an extraordinary migration of American children. Between 1854 and 1929, an estimated 200,000 children ventured forth on a journey of hope. Here, in the sequel to Orphan Train Rider: One Boy's True Story, Andrea Warren introduces nine men and women who rode the trains and helped make history so many years ago.

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What's A Foster Family, Anyway?		Inlay, Martine Golden
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This book provides a much needed resources in helping children cope with the potentially traumatic experience of placement into foster care.

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"What's Happening to My Body?" Book For Girls, The	A Growing-Up Guide for Parents and Daughters	Madaras, Lynda
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A bestselling classic, written by an experienced educator with her daughter in a reassuring and down-to-earth style, gives sensitive, nonjudgmental straight talk on the body's changing size & shape, breasts, reproductive organs, menstrual cycle, body hair.

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W.I.S.E. Up Powerbook		Schoette, Marilyn
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Bk gives children the tools to cope with uncomfortable comments and questions sometimes asked by friends, teachers, & even strangers. They learn to (W)alk away, say (I)t's private, (S)hare something, or (E)ducate. Very empowering.

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What's Going on Down There?	Answers to Questions Boys Find Hard to Ask	Gravelle, Karen
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Describes the physical and emotional changes that occur in boys (and, to a lesser extent, in girls) during puberty and discusses sexual activity, homosexuality, AIDS, and other related topics.

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When You Were Born in China	A Memory Book for Children Born in China	Dorow, Sara
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A must-have book for any child adopted from China. In simple language & with beautiful b&w photos, child will see her grand country, its people, its historic sites & poor countryside. Clear, loving explanation why parents place for adoption, orphanages, et

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When You Were Born in Vietnam		Bartlett, Therese
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Speaking directly to adopted children, book explains how Vietnamese children are placed for adoption. Covers the culture, the loving care at the orphanage, the journey thru to placement in a new, forever family. Adults will enjoy this book too.

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Wuhu Diary: On Taking My Adopted	Daughter Back to Her Hometown in China	Prager, Emily
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Emily, who had spent part of her childhhod in China, adopted Lulu from that country. As Lulu got older and had questions about her past, mother & daughter travelled back to China to encounter a culture that is both modern & ancient.

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