One for the Murphys
By: Lynda Mullaly Hunt
Publisher: Scholastic
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780545528351; 9780545533652
Subjects: Families; Family; Dysfunctional families; Stepfathers; Foster home care; Family problems; Mother-daughter relationship; Family life; Fiction; Mothers and daughters
Description: "After heartbreaking betrayal, Carley is sent to live with a foster family and struggles with opening herself up to their love"--
Notes: Accelerated Reader AR MG 3.4 6.0 152684.
Table of contents: title: Lucky girl; title: The first step; title: Orange you glad you're here?; title: Are you there, God? It's me, Carley; title: I should have licked the anthill; title: Lettuce pray; title: Upward and all around; title: Wake up and smell the apple juice; title: What a clip; title: A genie, fresh rolls, and a penguin; title: High tops girl from the planet Oblivion; title: Thou art a wing nut; title: You have the right to remain silent; title: There's no crying in baseball; title: Birds of a feather; title: If I throw a stick, will you go away?; title: Bad to worse to unthinkable; title: Long night; title: Paige turner; title: Wilting Chamberlain; title: Murphy's Law; title: House of mirrors; title: Truth hurts, huh?; title: Bagged; title: Mrs. Murphy's big idea; title: Walk off loss; title: Irish abyss; title: Must ... get ... out ... now; title: Friend or fiend?; title: Sunk by the bell; title: If you're going to lie to yourself, be convincing; title: Reservations for one; title: Out on a limb; title: Defying gravity; title: Order on the court!; title: Late-night surprise; title: Sinking feelings and other plumbing problems; title: When you care enough to send the very worst; title: Summon the book eater; title: Ironing the wrinkles in; title: Mind over matter; title: Back against the wall; title: Pals spelled backwards; title: Playing with fire; title: On the line; title: The giving ... Uh, I mean ... The living tree; title: One for the Murphys; title: Soft place to land; title: Someone's hero; title: A great and terrible thing.