Clementine and the Great Trip

Clarice Bean, Don't Look Now

The Blossoming Universe of Violet Diamond

The Trouble with May Amelia

Juana & Lucas

The Year of the Baby: Anna Wang

Oh, Brother!

Boy Underwater

A foster kid with a can-do attitude teaches the value of family and home.

Twelve-year-old Pavi Sharma is an expert at the Front Door Face: the perfect mix of puppy dog eyes and a lemonade smile, the exact combination to put foster parents at ease as they open their front door to welcome you in. After being bounced around between foster families and shelter stays, Pavi is a foster care expert, and she runs a “business” teaching other foster kids all she has learned. With a wonderful foster family in mom Marjorie and brother Hamilton, things are looking up for Pavi.

Then Pavi meets Meridee: a new five-year-old foster kid, who is getting placed at Pavi’s first horrendous foster home. Pavi knows no one will trust a kid about what happened on Lovely Lane, even one as mature as she is, so it’s up to her to save Meridee.

With help from Hamilton, brooding eighth grader Santos, and Hamilton’s somewhat obnoxious BFF Piper, they set off on an important mission with life-changing stakes. Pavi will stop at nothing to keep Meridee from the home that still haunts her nightmares.

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Clementine and the Great Trip

Sara Pennypacker, 2013

Clarice Bean, Don't Look Now

Lauren Child, 2006

The Blossoming Universe of Violet Diamond

Brenda Woods, 2014

The Trouble with May Amelia

Jennifer L. Holm, Adam Gustavson, 2011

Juana & Lucas

Juana Medina, 2016

The Year of the Baby: Anna Wang

Patrice Barton, Andrea Cheng, 2013

Oh, Brother!

Nikki Grimes, Mike Benny, 2007

Boy Underwater

Adam Baron, 2018