I really liked this novel about kids in a group foster care home, longing for permanent and loving homes. Each character has a backstory, and each of those is equally poignant. That includes the kids whom they meet at school, whose lives they envy, but perhaps too quickly.

Maddie's scrapbooks are both blessing and curse, as she chronicles the types of houses she likes, and as other kids use them to weave magical tales involving their absent parents. It is the simple fort they build that binds them together. Truth will out in this story, and its acceptance.

A good read.