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One for the MurphysLynda Mullaly Hunt

One for the Murphys

2012240 pages
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A moving debut novel about a foster child learning to open her heart to a family's love Carley uses humor and street smarts to keep her emotional walls high and thick. But the day she becomes a foster child, and moves in with the Murphys, she's blindsided. This loving, bustling family shows Carley the stable family life she never thought existed, and she feels like an alien in their cookie-cutter-perfect household. Despite her resistance, the Murphys eventually show her what it feels like to belong--until her mother wants her back and Carley has to decide where and how to live. She's not…

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4 editions
  • Other · English · 2022
    Cengage Gale · 9798885782371
  • Other · English · 2013
    Puffin Books · 256 pages · 9780142426524
  • Other · English · 2012
    Scholastic · 224 pages · 9780545528351
  • Other · English · 2012
    Nancy Paulsen Books · 9780399256158
Mothers and daughters, fictionFoster home care, fictionStepparents, fictionFamily life, fictionConnecticut, fictionChildren's fiction