Foster Care

May is Foster Care Month. Monroe Public Library has partnered with Green County Human Services to bring information to our patrons about becoming a foster parent. Here are some additional resources from our shelves.

Books for adults:

• Keep the Doors Open, Kristin Berry, print
• Confessions of an Adoptive Parent: Hope and Help from the Trenches of Foster Care and Adoption, Mike Berry, print
• Do You Want to Be a Foster Parent?, Sharon Davis, print
• The Foster Parenting Manual: a Practical Guide to Creating a Loving, Safe, and Stable Home, John DeGarmo, print
• The Little Book of Foster Care Wisdom: 365 Days of Inspiration and Encouragement for Foster Care Families, John DeGarmo, print
• Creating Compassionate Foster Care, Janet C. Mann & Molly Kretchmar-Hendricks, print
• Like Family: Growing up in Other People’s Houses: a Memoir, Paula McLain, print | ebook
• A Forever Family: Fostering Change One Child at a Time, Rob Scheer with Jon Sternfeld, print | eaudio

Books for little kids:

• Just Like a Mama, Alice Faye Duncan & Charnelle Pinkney Barlow, print
• My New Mom and Me, Renata Galindo, print | ebook
• Ten Beautiful Things, Molly Beth Griffin & Maribel Lechuga, print
• Home for a While, Lauren H. Kerstein & Natalia Moore, print
• Our Subway Baby, Peter Mercurio & Leo Espinosa, print

Books for big kids and teens:

• Lucky Strikes, Louis Bayard, print
• Sputnik’s Guide to Life on Earth, Frank Cottrell Boyce, print | ebook
• Where I'd Like to Be, Frances O'Roark Dowell, print
• Pictures of Hollis Woods, Patricia Reilly Giff, print | ebook | eaudio
• Where I Belong, Mary Downing Hahn, print | ebook
• Everything on a Waffle, Polly Horvath, print | eaudio
• One Year in Coal Harbor, Polly Horvath, print | ebook | eaudio
• All the Impossible Things, Lindsay Lackey, print
• Fast Break, Mike Lupica, print | ebook
• The Season of Styx Malone, Kekla Magoon, print | ebook | eaudio
• The Decoding of Lana Morris, Laura & Tom McNeal, print
• Planet Earth Is Blue, Nicole Panteleakos, print
• Summer of the Gypsy Moths, Sara Pennypacker, print | ebook | eaudio
• A Game of Fox and Squirrels, Jenn Reese, print | ebook
• Extraordinary Birds, Sandy Stark-McGinnis, print
• Locomotion, Jacqueline Woodson, print | ebook