📚 Foster Children

Books with foster children on their catalogue record, first published between 1919 and 2018, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject foster children in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 1,361 works the catalogue holds under that subject. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	The Women Who Raised Me	Victoria Rowell	2007	11
	The Privilege of Youth	David J. Pelzer	2004	10
	Mummy Told Me Not To Tell The True Story Of A Troubled Boy With A Dark Secret	Cathy Glass	2010	7
	The Lost Boy	David J. Pelzer	1997	6
	Somebody's someone	Regina Louise	2003	6
	A Dream Deferred, a Joy Achieved	Charisse Nesbit	2007	6
	Three Little Words	Ashley Rhodes-Courter	2008	5
	They Cage the Animals at Night	Jennings Michael Burch	1985	4
	Etched in Sand	Regina Calcaterra	2013	4
	Saving Danny	Cathy Glass	2015	4
	Long Way from Home	Cathy Glass	2018	4
	Child-placing in families	William H. Slingerland	1919	3
	They Cage the Animals at Night	Jennings Michael Burch	1984	3
	My story	David J. Pelzer	2002	3
	My Story	David J. Pelzer	2002	3
	Jason's story	Deborah Anderson	1986	2
	Unspeakable acts	Greggory W. Morris	1993	2
	Kids need to be safe	Julie Nelson	2005	2
	Little Prisoners	Casey Watson	2012	2
	Crying for help	Casey Watson	2012	2
	Tiny Prisoners	Maggie Hartley	2016	2
	Aging out	Alton Carter	2016	2
	The Girl Who Just Wanted to Be Loved	Angela Hart	2016	2
	Goodbye, Sarajane	Sequoya Griffin	2016	2
	Thrown Away Child	Louise Allen	2017	2
	Too Young to be a Mum	Maggie Hartley	2017	2
	The Girl and the Ghosts	Angela Hart	2017	2
	Fostering the Forgotten Child	James N. Davis III	2007	1
	A chance in the world	Stephen J. Pemberton	2012	1
	Etched In Sand A True Story Of Five Siblings Who Survived An Unspeakable Childhood On Long Island	Regina Calcaterra	2013	1

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 24 Oct 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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