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Just Until

Joseph Moldover

Ages: 14+

Published: 2024

Publisher: Margaret Ferguson Books/Holiday House

ISBN: 978-0-8234-5619-2

Keywords: Family/School/Community-Child welfare system, grandparent, siblings, baseball, art, Maine, love, adoption, kin, placement

The year before Hannah, 17, plans to go to college, she and her widowed father temporarily take in her troubled sister's two boys. Author's note on the child welfare system.