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Lexile/Reading Level
810L

Genre/Category
Adventure | Fiction | Historical | Science Fiction

Historical Time Period
Modern
Date
1900s
Topic
Ellis Island | Foster Children | Immigrants | Time Travel
Geographic Region
New York | United States - America
Main Character
Boy(s)
Format
Audiobook | Book

Orphan Of Ellis Island (Time Travel Adventures)

Author: Woodruff, ElviraPart of a Series: Time Travel Adventures

During a school trip to Ellis Island, Dominick Avaro, a ten-year-old foster child, travels back in time to 1908 Italy and accompanies two young emigrants to America.

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Lexile/Reading Level
730L

Genre/Category
Fiction | Historical

Historical Time Period
World War II
Date
1940s
Topic
Foster Children | Hitler | Holocaust | Homelessness and Poverty | Jews or Jewish | Thieves
Geographic Region
Europe | Germany
Main Character
Girl(s)
Award-Winning Book
Book Sense Book of the Year Award | Buxtehuder Bulle | National Jewish Book Award | Other Awards | Printz Honor
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Book Thief

Author: Zusak, Markus

It is 1939. Nazi Germany. The country is holding its breath. Death has never been busier, and will become busier still.

Liesel Meminger is a foster girl living outside of Munich, who scratches out a meager existence for herself by stealing when she encounters something she can’t resist–books. With the help of her accordion-playing foster father, she learns to read and shares her stolen books with her neighbors during bombing raids as well as with the Jewish man hidden in her basement.

In superbly crafted writing that burns with intensity, award-winning author Markus Zusak, author of I Am the Messenger, has given us one of the most enduring stories of our time.

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Lexile/Reading Level
NA - Varies by edition

Genre/Category
Classics | Fiction | Historical | Realistic

Topic
Family Relationships | Farms | Foster Children | Friendship | Growing Up - Coming of Age | Romance
Geographic Region
Canada | Prince Edward Island
Main Character
Girl(s)
Format
Audiobook | Book | Ebook | Free Audiobook | Free Ebook | Video

Complete Anne of Green Gables Boxed Set (Anne of Green Gables #1-8)

Author: Montgomery, Lucy MaudPart of a Series: Anne of Green Gables

This lovely boxed gift collection comprises Anne of Green Gables, Anne of the Island, Anne of Avonlea, Anne of Windy Poplars, Anne’s House of Dreams, Anne of Ingleside, Rainbow Valley, and Rilla of Ingleside.

When Marilla and Matthew Cuthbert of Green Gables, Prince Edward Island, send for a boy orphan to help them out at the farm, they are in no way prepared for the error that will change their lives. The mistake takes the shape of Anne Shirley, a redheaded 11-year-old girl who can talk anyone under the table. Fortunately, her sunny nature and quirky imagination quickly win over her reluctant foster parents. Anne’s feisty spirit soon draws many friends–and much trouble–her way. Not a day goes by without some melodramatic new episode in the tragicomedy of her life.

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Lexile/Reading Level
800L

Genre/Category
Fiction | Realistic

Topic
Foster Children | Growing Up - Coming of Age | Orphans
Main Character
Girl(s)
Award-Winning Book
Iowa Children's Choice Award | Massachusetts Children's Book Award | National Book Award for Young people | Newbery | Newbery Honor
Format
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Great Gilly Hopkins, The

Author: Paterson, Katherine

Watch out world!
The Great Gilly Hopkins is looking for a home. She’s a foster kid who’s been angry, lonely, and hurting for so long that’s she’s always ready for a fight. Be on the lookout for her best barracuda smile, the one she saves for well-meaning social workers. Watch out for her most fearful look, a cross between Dracula and Godzilla, used especially to scare shy foster brothers. Don’t be fooled by her “Who me?” expression, guaranteed to trick foster parents, teachers, and anyone who gets in her way.

It’s Gilly Hopkins vs. the world! And so far, Gilly seems to be winning. But what she doesn’t realize is that every time she wings, she really loses, until she discovers a love as formidable as any enemy she’s ever known.

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Lexile/Reading Level
650L

Genre/Category
Fiction | Realistic

Historical Time Period
Contemporary
Topic
Foster Children
Main Character
Girl(s)
Award-Winning Book
Newbery | Newbery Honor
Format
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Pictures of Hollis Woods

Author: Giff, Patricia Reilly

Hollis Woods has been in so many foster homes she can hardly remember them all. When Hollis is sent to Josie, she’ll do everything in her power to make sure they stay together.

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