An eleven-year-old foster child tries to cope with her longings and fears as she schemes against everyone who tries to be friendly.

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.

Despite Morgan's best efforts, things have been spiraling out of control since the day she set foot in Lake High. The war for survival between humans and Fey, already exacerbated by the appearance of the Dark Sidhe Mordred, has become full blown with the release of the evil sorceress Carman. Not only have Carman’s forces managed to take over Lake High, but Mordred has succeeded in opening the Gates to Hell. Worse, in an attempt to divert attention...

A twelve-year-old boy is confined to his basement without food or clothing.

A young bear cub, who is alone in the world, and Old Bear, who is grumpy and tired of living alone, meet and discover what they have been missing.

When their widowed mother can no longer support them, six siblings are sent on the orphan train by the Children's Aid Society of New York City to live with farm families in Missouri in 1860.

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

"After heartbreaking betrayal, Carley is sent to live with a foster family and struggles with opening herself up to their love"-- Provided by publisher.

"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...

Welcome Comfort, a lonely foster child, is assured by his friend the school custodian that there is a Santa Claus, but he does not discover the truth until one wondrous and surprising Christmas Eve.