Losers Bracket
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Publication Year
2018
ISBN
9780062220066
Pages
256 pages
Genre
realism
Format
chapter book
Item Type
Fiction
Annotation
When it comes to family, Annie is in the losers bracket. While her foster parents are great (mostly), her birth family would not have been her first pick. And no matter how many times Annie tries to write them out of her life, she always gets sucked back into their drama. Love is like that. But when a family argument breaks out at Annie's swim meet and her nephew goes missing, Annie might be the only one who can get him back. With help from her friends, her foster brother, and her social service worker, Annie puts the pieces of the puzzle together, determined to find her nephew and finally get him into a safe home.
Grade Level
9-12
Lexile Measure
HL790L
Diversity Topics
Family Relationships; Disability and Health; Foster care; Parental rights termination; Legal guardianship; Poverty; Mental illness; foster parents; foster child; foster siblings; foster brother; foster family; foster mother; foster father; terminated rights; losing your mother; impoverished mother; impoverished siblings; depression; therapist; panic attacks
Main Character
female teenager
Race/Ethnicities
White
Family Formation
foster mother and father
Awards
Booklist Book Review Stars, 2018
Keywords
book club; basketball; sports; friendship; siblings; fun; missing child; search; love; secrets; caseworker
Diversity Impact
direct
STARS Citation
Crutcher, Chris, "Losers Bracket" (2018). Diverse Families. 1811.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/diversefamilies/1811