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Reason to Breathe

Rebecca Donovan

Foster CareTeen ProtagonistSmall TownYoung Adult
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Future Shock

Elizabeth Briggs · 265 pages

Elena, nearly aged out of the foster care system, is recruited along with four other exceptional teens for a time-travel mission that will make them rich if they survive.

Foster CareTeen ProtagonistYoung AdultFirst Person Narrator
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The Summoning

Kelley Armstrong · 396 pages

My name is Chloe Saunders and my life will never be the same again. All I wanted was to make friends, meet boys, and keep on being ordinary. I don't even know what that means anymore. It all started on the day that I saw my first ghost—and the ghost saw me. Now there are ghosts everywhere and they won't leave me alone. To top it all off, I somehow got myself locked up in Lyle House, a "special hom

Foster CareTeen ProtagonistYoung AdultFirst Person Narrator
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The Ghost Files 2

Apryl Baker · 254 pages

Foster CareTeen ProtagonistYoung AdultFirst Person Narrator
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The Christmas Town

Donna VanLiere · 228 pages

"Lauren Gabriel spent many years of her childhood in foster homes, wishing her mother would come back for her and be the family she needs. Now twenty-years-old, she still longs for a place that she can truly call home. Her work as a cashier is unfulfilling, and at Christmas it's unbearable with the songs and carols and chatter of Christmas that she hears throughout the day. When Lauren ends her sh

Foster CareChristian FictionSmall TownSeries
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Solace of the Road

Siobhan Dowd

Holly's story will leave a lasting impression on all who travel with her.Memories of mum are the only thing that make Holly Hogan happy. She hates her foster family with their too-nice ways and their false sympathy. And she hates her life, her stupid school, and the way everyone is always on at her. Then she finds the wig, and everything changes. Wearing the long, flowing blond locks she feels tra

Foster CareTeen ProtagonistYoung AdultFirst Person Narrator
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A Walk to Remember

Nicholas Sparks · 240 pages

There was a time when the world was sweeter....when the women in Beaufort, North Carolina, wore dresses, and the men donned hats.... Every April, when the wind smells of both the sea and lilacs, Landon Carter remembers 1958, his last year at Beaufort High. Landon had dated a girl or two, and even once sworn that he'd been in love. Certainly the last person he thought he'd fall for was Jamie, the s

Christian FictionTeen ProtagonistYoung AdultSmall Town
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Hollywood Nobody

Lisa Samson, Timothy Penland · 221 pages

Fifteen-year-old Scotty Dawn has spent her young life on the road, traveling to movie sets with her single mom, Charley, a food designer. Yet even though Scotty is wise beyond her years, she still struggles to find her identity. Complicating matters is a mother who offers no guidance and a father she's never met. Now Scotty is determined to discover what she wants from life. She's even documenting

Christian FictionTeen ProtagonistYoung AdultFirst Person Narrator
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Dustbin Baby

Jacqueline Wilson · 160 pages

April, a fourteen-year-old girl who was abandoned by her mother in a dustbin when she was only a few minutes old. After a blazing row with her foster mother, she goes in search of her past.

Foster CareTeen ProtagonistYoung AdultFirst Person Narrator
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My Name is Chloe

Melody Carlson, Andy Stanley · 288 pages

An intelligent but insecure fifteen-year-old aspiring musician, who sports off-beat clothes, spiked hair, and multiple piercings, questions the existence of God until she meets Him head-on in a graveyard.

Christian FictionTeen ProtagonistYoung AdultFirst Person Narrator
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Once Was Lost

Sara Zarr · 224 pages

As the tragedy of a missing girl enfolds in her small town, fifteen-year-old Samara, who feels emotionally abandoned by her parents, begins to question her faith.

Christian FictionTeen ProtagonistSmall TownYoung Adult
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The Problem with Forever

Jennifer L. Armentrout · 344 pages

Foster CareTeen ProtagonistYoung AdultFirst Person Narrator
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Solitary

Travis Thrasher · 391 pages

When Chris Buckley moves to Solitary, North Carolina, he faces the reality of his parents' divorce, a school full of nameless faces--and Jocelyn Evans. Jocelyn is beautiful and mysterious enough to leave Chris speechless. But the more Jocelyn resists him, the more the two are drawn together. Chris soon learns that Jocelyn has secrets as deep as the town itself. Secrets more terrifying than the bul

Christian FictionTeen ProtagonistYoung AdultSmall Town
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Becoming Me

Melody Carlson

Christian FictionTeen ProtagonistYoung AdultFirst Person Narrator
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Anne of Green Gables

L.M. Montgomery · 308 pages

Anne, an eleven-year-old orphan, is sent by mistake to live with a lonely, middle-aged brother and sister on a Prince Edward Island farm and proceeds to make an indelible impression on everyone around her.

Foster CareTeen ProtagonistSmall TownFemale Lead
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The Shadow Society

Marie Rutkoski · 448 pages

Sixteen-year-old Darcy Jones knows little about her past except that she was abandoned outside a Chicago firehouse at age five, but when the mysterious Conn arrives at her high school she begins to discover things about her past that she is not sure she likes.

Foster CareTeen ProtagonistYoung AdultSeries
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Find Me

Romily Bernard · 307 pages

When teen hacker and foster child Wick Tate finds a dead classmate's diary on her front step, with a note reading "Find me," she sets off on a perverse game of hide-and-seek to catch the killer.

Foster CareYoung AdultFirst Person NarratorFemale Lead
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Being Billy

Phil Earle

Foster CareTeen ProtagonistYoung AdultFirst Person Narrator
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Moonstone

Marilee Brothers · 187 pages

Welcome to the funny, sad, sometimes scary world of fifteen-year-old Allie Emerson, who's struggling to keep her act together in the small-town world of Peacock Flats, Washington. A zap from an electrical fence sets off Allie's weird psychic powers. The next thing she knows, she's being visited by a hippy-dippy guardian angel, and then her mysterious neighbor, the town witch, gives her an incred

Teen ProtagonistYoung AdultSmall TownFirst Person Narrator
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Unearthly

Cynthia Hand

Sixteen-year-old Clara Gardner's purpose as an angel-blood begins to manifest itself, forcing her family to pull up stakes and move to Jackson, Wyoming, where she learns that danger and heartbreak come with her powers.

Teen ProtagonistSmall TownYoung AdultFirst Person Narrator
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Quaking

Kathryn Erskine · 254 pages

In a Pennsylvania town where anti-war sentiments are treated with contempt and violence, Matt, a fourteen-year-old girl living with a Quaker family, deals with the demons of her past as she battles bullies of the present, eventually learning to trust in others as well as herself.

Foster CareTeen ProtagonistYoung AdultFirst Person Narrator
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The Gifting

K.E. Ganshert, Katie Ganshert · 322 pages

Christian FictionTeen ProtagonistSmall TownYoung Adult
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Touch Blue

Cynthia Lord

Foster CareTeen ProtagonistFirst Person NarratorFemale Lead
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Unremembered

Jessica Brody · 307 pages

A girl, estimated to be sixteen, awakens with amnesia in the wreckage of a plane crash she should not have survived and taken into foster care, and the only clue to her identity is a mysterious boy who claims she is part of a science experiment that will take place in 100 years.

Foster CareYoung AdultFirst Person NarratorFemale Lead

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