by Patricia Reilly Giff
"You don't know about families yet." A sweet, touching story of finding home and learning about family for 11 year old Hollis Woods, who has been running away from foster homes her entire life. Alternating between Hollis's present caring about and for her aging foster caretaker, Josie, and her past,...
Hollis Woods, named for the woods she was found in when she was just hours old. She's never had a family, and she never stays in one place for long. She stops going to school, runs away, and then she's sent somewhere new. There was a family, the Old Man, his wife, Izzy, and Steven, the son. They...
"Maybe we'd be luckier this time."Touching. Well-written and good for its genre. Read it in a few hours.
This was a sweet book, quite short. The main character is Hollis Woods, who is a foster child, who had the chance at a family and threw it away. The book alternates between the past and the present (though I think they're only a few months apart). It was an interesting way to set up the book, and ...
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