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1) Buddy
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 2
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Charles and Lizzie Peterson foster dogs and find them the perfect homes. Will they be able to take care of Skipper's litter and find forever homes for Skipper and all of her pups, too?
2) Rascal
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Puppy place. Main series volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 2
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The Petersons' newest foster puppy is Rascal. He is a Jack Russell terrier, and his name fits him well. He may be small, but he can cause big trouble. Lizzie and Charles are in for a challenge.
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Rose Madsen will do anything to keep from being married off to one of the men in her Fundamentalist Mormon (FLDS) community, even endure the continued beatings and abuse of her mother. But when her mentally handicapped baby sister is forced to strangle the bird she loves at the behest of the Prophet, Rose frees the bird and runs away. Adan Reyes will do anything to escape the abusive foster care system in Phoenix, even leaving his good friends and...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
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"One by one, all of Buttons' littermates are being adopted. But not Buttons. Noise scares him. Other animals scare him. So do people! How do you make the world's shyest kitten feel safe, so he can find a forever home? That's the big question for eight-year-old Kaita Takano and her pet-fostering family need to answer -- and fast!"-- back cover.
8) Scout
Author
Series
Puppy place. Main series volume 7
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
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Lizzie and Charles meet Scout, a gentle German shepherd who is very good at helping people. A puppy like Scout needs a special owner. Can the Petersons find the perfect person?
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Series
Domestic Equalizers volume 8
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After two divorces, Sandi Walker, entrepreneur extraordinaire, is on her own and loving it. As a devout animal lover, she has made a success of the only gourmet pet food bakery in Midland, Texas. She's also a pet foster parent with fifteen assorted abused and unwanted animals at home. When a golden-colored stray dog with an abundance of personality appears at her door, she can't refuse him and she can't keep from falling in love with him. She names...
10) Roo the rabbit
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
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"A new foster pet, someBUNNY special, has arrived at the Takano house, and eight-year-old Kaita is over the moon! But Roo isn't lick-your-face friendly like the dogs Kaita's used to fostering, and she soon wonders if she'll ever be able to break the ice and find the skittish mini lop a forever home"--
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
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"Tiki the cockatoo is the Takano family's newest foster pet and thanks to her ear-splitting screeching, the entire neighborhood knows it! Eight-year-old Kaita has to pull out all the tricks to keep the feathered squawker calm and content and find Tiki a forever home before everyone goes crazy! Giggle-inducing illustrations and 1st-person narration bring this noisy early chapter-book adventure to life"--
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
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"Since the Takano family's new foster pet, Murray the ferret, arrived at their house, all sorts of things have gone missing: shoes, jewelry, keys, coins . . . Although eight-year-old Kaita enjoys solving the mysteries, she worries that finding a forever home for the lovable furry bandit will be near impossible! Playful illustrations and lots of sleuthing fun make this chapter book a treat for animal lovers and mystery fans alike"--
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
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"What do you do with a gentle Great Dane who's the size of a cow but acts like he's no bigger than a mini dachshund? If you're eight-year-old Kaita Takano and her animal-fostering family, you shower the dog with love and do everything you can to find him a forever home"--
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
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Annie and Apple are a pair of chatty, restless dwarf hamsters from the animal shelter who are being fostered by eight-year-old Kaita Takano and her family. Kaita can't wait to find forever homes for the inquisitive fur balls, but first she has to find them!
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
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Description
Eight-year-old Kaita Takano and her family are old pros at fostering rescued dogs and cats from the local animal shelter. But they've got their work cut out for them when a beautiful bearded dragon with plenty of attitude arrives at their doorstep. Even though Kaita narrates the rollicking adventure, this charmingly illustrated chapter book is all about Betty!
Author
Series
Adventures in Fosterland volume 2
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
After undergoing a procedure at the vet, takes on the persona of Super Spinach and goes to Fosterland, where she and her sidekick Chickpea help a litter of kittens.
18) Finding Grace
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California: Twelve-year-old Melanie has been in foster care her whole life, moving from home to home--unloved and unwanted. She has found a kind of happiness with her recent foster family, Delilah and Ray. But Melanie has a secret, one she knows she can never share. Someone talks to Melanie, a presence no-one else can see or hear. Melanie calls her Penny and Penny has a message for her: something very bad is about to happen. New York: Louise has spent...
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"A spare, lyrical Native American coming of age story set in rural Oklahoma in the late 1980s. With his single mother in jail, Sequoyah, a fifteen-year-old Cherokee boy, is placed in foster care with the Troutt family. Literally and figuratively scarred by his unstable upbringing, Sequoyah has spent years mostly keeping to himself, living with his emotions pressed deep below the surface--that is, until he meets the seventeen-year-old Rosemary, another...
20) Waffles
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Series
Puppy place. Main series volume 68
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Charles and Lizzie Peterson love puppies. Their family fosters these young dogs, giving them love and proper care, until they can find the perfect forever home. Waffles is exuberant, playful, and smart – maybe too smart! She’s quite the escape artist and Lizzie has her hands full trying to keep tabs on her.