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Language
English
Description
No matter how broken our past or great our misfortunes, we can create a new beginning and build a life of love and kindness.
Taken from his mother at age three, Steve Klakowicz lives in the clutches of a cruel foster family. He finds his only refuge in a box of books given to him by a kind stranger, books that take him to new worlds he can only imagine. He begins to hope that one day he might have a different life.
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Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Fostering six-year-old Max got off to a bad start when his mother telephoned me with complaints even before he moved in. She was in hospital recovering from an operation and I had been asked to take care of her son. Although I'd heard plenty from Max's mother and his social worker, I had very few details about Max himself and I struggled to hide my shock when he arrived. Looking after Max was clearly going to be a completely new challenge.--Back cover....
Publisher
Colorado Department of Education, Division of Pathways, Office of Dropout Prevention and Student Re-engagement
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (11 pages).
Language
English
Description
Children and youth in foster care are a relatively small population of students in Colorado's K-12 schools. However, they experience the largest academic achievement gap as a group. The dropout rate for children and youth in foster care continues to be significantly higher than Colorado's state average.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
'I'm so sorry, Casey,' my link worker John said, sounding weary. 'I know this is probably the worst time I could ring you, but we desperately need someone to take a child tonight.' It's the night before Christmas when Casey and Mike get the call. A twelve-year-old girl, stuck between a rock and a hard place. Her father is on a ventilator, fighting for his life, while her mother is currently on remand in prison. Despite claiming she attacked him in...
11) Girl alone
Author
Publisher
Harper Element
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
316 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"When Joss came to me she was angry, upset and confused. At the age of nine, she returned home from school to find her father's lifeless body in the garage. Four years later she was still hurting. She was smoking cannabis, drinking alcohol, stealing, going missing and was in trouble with the police and at school. Time was running out and I was her last chance."--Page 4 of cover.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 12
Physical Desc
304 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Traces the author's painful childhood in a series of foster homes, her deteriorating relationship with her emotionally unstable mother, abuse at the hands of a foster family, and her subsequent efforts to advocate for an improved foster care system.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Lost Boy has spent over two years on the New York Times best-seller list and has profoundly influenced more than one million readers' lives. Following the tremendous success of Pulitzer Prize nominee A Child Called "It", this book continues the extraordinary tale of author Dave Pelzer's childhood. On the verge of adolescence, Dave is rescued from his terrifyingly abusive, alcoholic mother and made a permanent ward of the court. Then the real journey...
15) Runaway girl
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Fourteen-year-old Adrianna arrives on Casey's doorstep with no possessions, no English, and no explanation. It will be a few weeks before Casey starts getting the shocking answers to her questions... Brought to Casey as a short-term emergency placement, fourteen-year-old Adrianna arrives with nothing but her gratitude. Having 'turned herself in' to a social services office some hundred miles away, she has no possessions, no English and, apparently,...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"At once the deeply moving memoir of a troubled mother-daughter relationship and a meditation on trauma, resilience, transcendence, and redemption, this unique story's messages are universal, offering insight into what it means to survive, to rise above, to heal, and to forgive."--
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
387 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"A generation of Nigerian children were born in Britain in the fifties and sixties, privately fostered by white families, then taken to Nigeria by their parents. Coconut is the story of one of those children. 1963, North London. Nan fosters one-year-old Florence Olajide and calls her 'Ann.' Florence adores her foster mother more than anything but Nan, and the children around her, all have white skin and she can't help but feel different. Then, four...
Author
Publisher
Freiling Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
203 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"This is the poignant and triumphant story of Terrence K. Williams, who was born into nothing; neglected, starved, abused, and beaten, a product of the foster home system. He grew up without a table to sit at, let alone food to eat, yet today is endeared by millions of fans and followers...and welcomed at the White House! A heart-wrenching yet ultimately victorious story, you'll cry and laugh as you experience his life through Terrence's eyes. With...
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
xxi, 304 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
In this unflinching portrait of shattered families, desperation and determination, the author, born to a drug-addicted mother, recounts growing up in foster care, and despite his military career, undergraduate education from Yale and a PhD from Cambridge, he argues that stability at home is more important than external accomplishments.
20) Making Lamanites: Mormons, Native Americans, and the Indian Student Placement Program, 1947-2000
Author
Publisher
The University of Utah Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
xii, 341 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Explores why many Native youth in the Indian Student Placement Program adopted a new notion of identity. From 1947 to 2000, some 50,000 Native American children left the reservations to live with Mormon foster families. The access to educational opportunities and cross cultural experiences appealed to many Navajo and other Native American families in the post-war years. Some dropped out of the Indian Student Placement Program (ISPP) program, but for...
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