The novel Where I'd Like To Be by Frances O'Roark Dowell is a novel about an orphan named Maddie. She has been sent to foster homes her entire life and now lives at an orphanage. One day a new girl named Murphy comes to the orphanage and has tales about her life to tell Maddie. They two become fast friends. Soon Ricky Ray and Logan join their group of friends. The four build their own fort and begin to put together scrapbooks of houses that they make stories about. But Murphy makes friends with the popular kids who make fun of and ruin their scrapbooks. This brings a bridge between the whole group. The book was an easy read although kind of sad. It has always been hard for me to read books about children in foster care or orphanages. I know it is a prominent issue in the world today so it could be a good book to bring into the classroom and read together.
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