All the Children are Home - Patry Francis

Set in the late 1950s through the 1960s in a small town in Massachusetts, All the Children are Home is the story of the Moscatelli family - foster parents Dahlia and Louie and their long-term foster children Jimmy, Zaidie, and Jon - and the irrevocable changes in their lives when an indigenous girl comes to live with them. When Dahlia decided to become a foster mother, she had a few caveats: no howling newborns, no delinquents, and above all, no girls.  A harrowing incident years before left her a virtual prison in her own home, forever wary of the heartbreak and limitation of a girl's life.  Eleven years after they begin fostering, Dahlia and Louie consider their family complete.  But when the social worker begs them to take a young girl who has been horrifically abused and neglected, they can't say no. Six-year-old Agnes Juniper arrives with no knowledge of herself or her Native American heritage beyond a box of trinkets her mother once gave her and dreamlike memories of the sister w