The Foster Parenting Manual is a comprehensive guide offering proven, friendly advice for novice and experienced parents alike. Distilling many years' experience into one book, this book describes what you can expect from foster parenting, how to access help and support and how to ensure the best care for your child. Provides insight into the foster care system for new and experienced foster parents and caseworkers. Chapters begin with stories from...

Thirty-two-year-old Amy Denison volunteers at Glory's Place, an after school program where she meets seven-year-old Maddie, a precocious young girl who has spent her childhood in foster care. Unbeknownst to Amy, Maddie is a mini-matchmaker, with her eye on just the right man for Amy at Grandon Elementary School, where she is a student. Amy is hesitant - she's been hurt before, and isn't sure she's ready to lose her heart again - but an unexpected...

At the age of 12, Astrid has her world blown away when her mother is sentenced to life in prison for murdering her lover. Sharpened by harsh foster home environments, Astrid remakes herself as a survivor, and ultimately, an artist.

"The essential guide to parenting adopted and foster kids--learn to create felt safety, heal attachment trauma, and navigate challenging behaviors and triggers"--

Gilly Hopkins has seen more than her share of foster homes and has outwitted every family she has lived with. In an effort to escape her new foster mother Maime Trotter's endless loving care, Gilly concocts a plan that she believes will bring her mother running to her rescue. But when the ploy blows up in Gilly's face it threatens to ruin the only chance she's ever had to be part of a real family.

"The son of a Mississippi policeman finds a boy living in hiding in the wilderness and tries to help him without giving away his secret"--

When his foster children's biological father attempts to abduct them at gunpoint, Sheriff Brent Fox's only priority is the kids' safety. And now caseworker Carly Engelman is next on the man's hit list, and it's up to Brent to guard her, too. But when their location is compromised, can Brent protect Carly and the kids...before he loses his chance to become a father?

Sara Martinez is a hacker. She recently broke into the New York City juvenile justice system to expose her foster parents as cheats and lawbreakers. However, instead of being hailed as a hero, she finds herself facing years in a juvenile detention facility and banned from using computers. Enter Mother, a British spy who not only gets sara released from jail but also offers her a chence to make a home for herself withing a secret team of your MI6 agents....

Mike Wingate was raised in foster care, but is now a happily married man with a young daughter, and his construction company is about to finish a project that will secure a future for them all. But then something from his own past, which he doesn't even remember, comes back to visit terror upon him and his family. Mike turns to Shep, a dangerous man, and Mike's only true friend from his childhood days in foster care. Together they will do whatever...

Schoolteacher Mollie Graber has come to Stoney Ridge for a fresh start. When deacon Luke Schrock asks his congregation to take in foster girls from a group home, she volunteers. The power of love, she believes, can pick up the dropped stitches in a child's heart and knit them back together. Instead Mollie gets sleepless nights and police at the door. There's only one thing that breaks through the girls' hard shells: a n interest in horses. Reluctantly...