Kinda Like Brothers

"Eleven-year-old Jarrett deals with a constant flow of foster babies shuffling in and out of his home. His mom is a foster parent and the book begins with a toddler and her 12-year-old brother coming for a much-longer-than-usual stay. Coe Booth perfectly captures the two boys in their backstabbing antics, their arguments over girls and, eventually, their transition from strangers to enemies to “kinda like brothers.” Before Booth was a writer, she was a caseworker with Child Protective Services in New York. She told NPR: “I was always wondering: What would it be like for those kids to have these new kids come and leave and come and leave and not want to attach to them?” (For ages 8 to 12)"