Meet the Radish - Jean Ure

Sam is happily installed with the Fosters and now they feel ready to take on another child. After alll, who could be more of a handful than Sam? A boy! Abi and Sam prepare for what they're sure will be a boisterous and annoying little brother - but when six year-old Radice arrives, he's not at all what they expected. Painfully shy and timid, with a crop of bright red hair, Radice is a forlorn little thing - Abi and Sam can't help it, they nickname him Radish. Radish hardly speaks and seems terrified of everything and everyone. His mother and her violent boyfriend saw to that. But Sam and Abi try really hard and, finally, they win Radish's trust. Smiling and chatty, he's a different little boy to the one they first met.Then Radish's mum arrives to take him back! Sam and Abi miss him, more than they ever thought - and will his mum look after him properly? But one night Radish turns up at the door - his mum's been up to her old tricks again.. That does it. The Foster family apply for legal adoption - Radish is home for good!