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Here is a gorgeous, slowburning story set in the rural 'badlands' of Northern Ontario, where tragedy and hardship are mirrored in the landscape, and ... More

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In 1909, after spending several months back at the Lovell House Home for Orphaned and Abandoned Boys, eleven-year-old Gib returns to live on the ... More

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Danny and his younger sister, Peg, are placed in St. Joseph, Missouri, with kind Alfrid and Olga Swenson. Danny is thrilled to have a "real" father ... More

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After her mother is killed in a riding accident, Harriet and her untrained two-year old colt are sent to live on the Vermont farm owned by her Aunt ... More

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Two weeks seems like forever to Dossi, a 12-year-old Jewish immigrant and orphan who is sent by the Fresh Air Fund to a small Vermont town during the ... More

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It has been eight years since Hope's mom died in a car accident. Eight years of shuffling from foster home to foster home. Eight years of trying to ... More

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Lillie Mae's mama has just died, and with her father not back from the Great War that ended over a year before, Lillie is shipped by her mean Aunt ... More

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When the Johnsons got another foster child, Toby Smart, strange things started happening in the family. Libby wondered if she truly belonged. Did the ... More

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In 1926, 12-year-old Tree is taken from the orphanage by Farmer Gunderson to work as a farmhand. Tree promises his younger brother, Acorn, he'll soon ... More

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In 1860, having traveled with his young sister from New York to a foster home on a farm near St. Joseph, Missouri, ten-year-old Danny plots to get ... More

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Brooke and Danny Parker live in the city until a tragedy takes their parents from them and they are forced to move to the backwoods of the Ozarks. ... More

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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 ... More

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Where the River Begins tells the story of the effects of a family break-up on a ten-year-old boy. Fostered by a Christian family while his mother ... More

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At age 15, a boy named America has spent years lost in the system. Dr. B., a psychiatrist at Ridgeway Hospital, nudges America's life story from him. ... More

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Williams pens an emotionally gripping novel that follows the plight of two orphaned sisters who are thrown into a world of drugs, violence, and sex, ... More

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When a heart attack takes her mom's life, Sarabeth suddenly loses the only family and home she's ever known. Her mother's friends, Cynthia and Billy, ... More

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The Gamages and the Martinkas have been feuding for generations. When Bo Gamage is orphaned, he finds himself in a nest of Martinkas out on the ... More

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Untamable. Damaged. Angry. Once full of promise and life, now a fiery knot of resentment and detachment. This is the story of Dream of Night, an ... More

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Ethan has a secret that someone is willing to kill for.

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Fourteen-year-old Jono and his eight-year-old sister Julie run away when, soon after their grandmother's death, their alcoholic mother hits Julie, ... More

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A sixteen-year-old girl endures a miserable life with her aunt and violent twin brother, but when memories of an even worse past resurface she runs ... More

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Out walking alone one rainy night, Lucy becomes convinced that someone--or something--is following her. Spooked, she ducks into a cemetery to try and ... More

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Having found a dollhouse full of dolls in the orphanage where she leads an unhappy existence, Lucie creates a secret life for herself.

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In this emotionally powerful, funny debut, Cricket Cherpin needs to figure out what to do with his life before he turns eighteen. But life sucks--so ... More

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