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FosterClub Transition Toolkit: a tool for developing a youth-driven transition plan
FosterClub
Foster Club's Transition Toolkit was designed just for this transitioning journey. It is a youth-involved, comprehensive way to develop a transition plan for foster youth aging out of care. Foster Club's Transition Toolkit includes planning worksheets, record keeping, detailed maps, and resources.
Children's Titles, Teen Titles, Parenting, Parenting Teens, General Adoption, Foster Care Adoption, Professionals, Transitions Considerations
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Foster Care 411: a youth's guide to foster care
FosterClub
Foster Care 411 helps youth understand the foster care system and take an active part in their case plan. Foster Care 411 is designed to give young people in care the answers they need to better understand foster care and take charge of their lives. Written in accessible, engaging format, this comprehensive guide includes: questions and ansers in relevant foster care topic areas, a glossary of terms to help youth bette runderstand foster care terminology, Foster to Famous stories to inspire and empower young people, quotes from youth in care relating their experiences and providing advice and encouragement, FYI Forms to help young people communicate and advocate on their behalf. Though written for youth, Foster Care 411 is also a valuable source of informaiton for any supportive adult of youth in care.
Children's Titles, Teen Titles, Parenting, Parenting Teens, General Adoption, Foster Care Adoption, Professionals, Transitions Considerations
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Pictures of Hollis Woods
Patricia Reilly Giff
Hollis Woods
is the place where a baby was abandoned
is the baby’s name
is an artist
is now a twelve-year-old girl
who’s been in so many foster homes she can hardly remember them all.
When Hollis is sent to Josie, an elderly artist who is quirky and affectionate, she wants to stay. But Josie is growing more forgetful every day. If Social Services finds out, they’ll take Hollis away and move Josie into a home. Well, Hollis Woods won’t let anyone separate them. She’s escaped the system before; this time, she’s taking Josie with her. Still, even as she plans her future with Josie, Hollis dreams of the past summer with the Regans, fixing each special moment of her days with them in pictures she’ll never forget.
Patricia Reilly Giff captures the yearning for a place to belong in this warmhearted story, which stresses the importance of artistic vision, creativity, and above all, family.
Children's Titles, Foster Care, Teen Titles, Parenting, Parenting Teens, General Adoption, Foster Care Adoption
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Miles from Nowhere
Nami Mun
Teenage Joon is a Korean immigrant living in the Bronx of the 1980s. Her parents have crumbled under the weight of her father?s infidelity; he has left the family, and mental illness has rendered her mother nearly catatonic. So Joon, at the age of thirteen, decides she would be better off on her own, a choice that commences a harrowing and often tragic journey that exposes the painful difficulties of a life lived on the margins. Joon's adolescent years take her from a homeless shelter to an escort club, through struggles with addiction, to jobs selling newspapers and cosmetics, committing petty crimes, and finally toward something resembling hope.
Children's Titles, Teen Titles, Parenting, Parenting Teens, General Adoption, Foster Care Adoption, Transracial Adoption
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Gulliver's Travels
Jonathan Swift
For generations, readers have enjoyed classic literature. They have delighted in the romance of Jane Austen, thrilled at the adventures of Jules Verne, and pondered the lessons of Aesop. Introduce young readers to these familiar volumes with Great Illustrated Classics. In this series, literary masterworks have been adapted for young scholars. Large, easy-to-read type and charming pen-and-ink drawings enhance the text. Students are sure to enjoy becoming acquainted with traditional literature through these well-loved classics.
Children's Titles, Teen Titles
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Benni & Victoria
Patricia H. Aust
Ten-year old Benni Rameriz can't live with his mother anymore. Victoria, the ghost who haunts his school, can't find out what happened to hers. As Benni struggles to find the answers that will allow Victoria to rest, he learns about himself and the true meaning of friendship. Will he be able to help Victoria--and himself--before time runs out?
Children's Titles, Teen Titles
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Horses for Dummies
Audrey Pavia
Train, care for, and have fun with your horse If you're crazy about horses, this hands-on guide is all you need to giddy up and go. Featuring updates on breeds, boarding, nutrition, equipment, training, and riding, as well as new information on various equine conditions, this resource shows you how to keep your horse happy - and take your riding skills to the next level. Discover how to * Select the right horse for you * Feed, groom, and handle your horse * Recognize common horse ailments * Have fun in the saddle * Get involved in equestrian competitions
Children's Titles, Teen Titles
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Privilege of Youth, The
Dave Pelzer
From A Child Called “It” to The Lost Boy, from A Man Named Dave to Help Yourself, Dave Pelzer’s inspirational books have helped countless others triumph over hardship and misfortune. In The Privilege of Youth, he shares the missing chapter of his life: as a boy on the threshold of adulthood. With sensitivity and insight, he recounts the relentless taunting he endured from bullies; but he also describes the thrill of making his first real friends—some of whom he still shares close relationships with today. He writes about the simple pleasures of exploring his neighborhood, while trying to forget the hell waiting for him at home. From high school to a world beyond the four walls that were his prison for so many years, The Privilege of Youth bravely and compassionately charts this crucial turning point in Dave Pelzer’s life and will inspire a whole new generation of readers.
Children's Titles, Teen Titles, Parenting, Parenting Teens
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Do You Have What It Takes? A Comprehensive Guide to Success After Foster Care
Teens Who Have Been There (Edited by Kendra Hurley)
Do You Have What It Takes? is a new resource for helping teens succeed after foster care. This survival manual for teens, mentors, foster parents, staff, and CASAs is written by teens who have been there. The teen writers show how they have managed the emotional and practical skills they need to live on their own after foster care. Do You Have What It Takes? includes lessons and worksheets that teens can do on their own or in workshops, plus nine lessons for group activities. Teens will learn emotional skills like how to form a support network, how to set goals, how to work with difficult people, and how to manage emotions like anger and loneliness. They will also learn practical skills like money management, finding a job, finding an apartment and keeping it clean, and taking care of their health.
Children's Titles, Growing Up Adopted, Teen Titles, Parenting, Parenting Teens
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Shiloh
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Marty will do anything to save his new friend Shiloh in this Newbery Medal–winning novel from Phyllis Reynolds Naylor. When Marty Preston comes across a young beagle in the hills behind his home, it's love at first sight—and also big trouble. It turns out the dog, which Marty names Shiloh, belongs to Judd Travers, who drinks too much and has a gun—and abuses his dogs. So when Shiloh runs away from Judd to Marty, Marty just has to hide him and protect him from Judd. But Marty's secret becomes too big for him to keep to himself, and it exposes his entire family to Judd's anger. How far will Marty have to go to make Shiloh his?
Children's Titles, Growing Up Adopted, Teen Titles
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