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SOLVED: Children's/YA > SOLVED. YA coming of age story about a teenage foster child who gets taken in on a farm by a single woman who has done this several times with older foster children. [s]

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Sarah | 1 comments I read this book in high school, found it at a flea market and no longer own it. I don’t remember the title or the author. All I remember is a very undisciplined foster girl, maybe between 13-15 gets taken in on a horse farm by a middle aged single woman. The girl doesn’t want to be there, she doesn’t want to be anywhere but by herself. The woman has a bunch of sentimental items and figurines that she only has one rule that the girl can’t touch them. I believe in anger the girl breaks them. I also remember the girl pretending to be sick, maybe to get out of chores? This is all I remember but really wish to find this book again.


message 3: by Kris (last edited Oct 22, 2021 10:25AM) (new)

Kris | 55149 comments Mod
Google Books preview of Dream of Night by Heather Henson - Rainbowheart's suggestion:

https://books.google.com/books?id=8oj...

Quotes from the book:
- She needs to be sick but not too sick. Not sick enough for the woman to have to take her somewhere. Because then she'd miss the call for for sure. When Mrs. Lima Bean finally goes out to the barn, Shiloh heads down the hallway.
- .. that the woman is not kidding about the TV, that she is not playing a game, she knows she has to break something. Something special. But what? In the old couple's house it was easy to choose. The old lady had all these tiny glass figurines on a shelf in the living room. They made a tinkling sound when they hit the floor. But here, in this house, it's hard to tell what is special. Everything looks old, used.
- She still wants to break something that belongs to the woman - Mrs. Lima Bean - something special.
- She can feel the rest of the glass shattering, the frame breaking under her shoe. She leaves the mess where it is and goes to back to her room. She still wants to break something. So she takes the woman's precious book out from under her ...


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Sarah didn't respond. Moving to Solved.


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