Ten-year-old Tracy, who lives in a children's home because her mother was forced to give her up, dreams of getting a good foster family where she can be happy until her mother comes back for her.

Explains why one goes to a foster home, who foster parents are, what to do if things don't work out, and other matters regarding foster care.

A young bear cub, who is alone in the world, and Old Bear, who is grumpy and tired of living alone, meet and discover what they have been missing.

When social workers begin to scrutinize Mercy's homelife in modern-day Pietermartizburg, she uses life lessons taught to her by Mr. Singh to stand up for herself and her eccentric foster aunts.

When the state of Maine threatens to shut down their island's one-room schoolhouse because of dwindling enrollment, eleven-year-old Tess, a strong believer in luck, and her family take in a trumpet-playing foster child to increase the school's population.

Inconsolable at being separated from her older brother, eight-year-old Paris is apprehensive about her new foster family but just as she learns to trust them, she faces a life-changing decision.

"Love and resentment, fear and hope intersect for two sisters as their desire to help an abandoned child forces them to face their past and decide their future."-- Delia Lamont loves her job at the Portland, Maine child services agency, but her frustrations have left her burned out and restless. Ready to join her sister Juniper and start a seaside bakery, she is called in on the case of a five-year-old girl named Hayley found by the side of the road....

Sent to live in a foster home in a remote Yorkshire village, Matt, a troubled fourteen-year-old English boy, uncovers an evil plot involving witchcraft and the site of an ancient stone circle.