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Foster Girl

Author : Georgette Todd
Publisher : Createspace Independent Pub
ISBN 13 : 9781484975237
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (752 download)

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Download or read book Foster Girl written by Georgette Todd and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2013-05-09 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Foster Girl opens with a bullet to the head along with a family history of abandonment, alcholoism, drug use, abuse, incarcerations and a tragic death– all of which forces Georgette and her baby sister into the foreign world of foster care. From there, Georgette has no choice but to raise herslef and her sister through a series of institutional residencies and unloving foster homes. Complete with transcribed court documents, letters, photos and narration by a spirited yet desperate teenager, Foster Girl recreates a wildly unpredictable coming-of-age story of one girl's struggle to survive long enough for life after foster care. Those already familiar of the child welfare system or interested in knowing more, and fans of "Girl, Interrupted," "Push, a Novel (Precious)," and Ashley Rhodes-Courter "Three Little Words," will also appreciate reading this unforgettable debut memoir. Foster Girl was edited by Alan Rinzler, the man behind Toni Morrison's "The Bluest Eye" and Hunter S. Thompson's "Fear & Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72."

Counting Down

Author : Deborah Gold
Publisher : Ohio University Press
ISBN 13 : 0821446185
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (214 download)

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Download or read book Counting Down written by Deborah Gold and published by Ohio University Press. This book was released on 2018-02-26 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Deborah Gold and her husband signed up to foster parent in their rural mountain community, they did not foresee that it would lead to a roller-coaster fifteen years of involvement with a traumatized yet resilient birth family. They fell in love with Michael (a toddler when he came to them), yet they had to reckon with the knowledge that he could leave their lives at any time. In Counting Down, Gold tells the story of forging a family within a confounding system. We meet social workers, a birth mother with the courage to give her children the childhood she never had herself, and a father parenting from prison. We also encounter members of a remarkable fellowship of Appalachian foster parents—gay, straight, right, left, evangelical, and atheist—united by love, loss, and quality hand-me-downs. Gold’s memoir is one of the few books to deliver a foster parent’s perspective (and, through Michael’s own poetry and essays, that of a former foster child). In it, she shakes up common assumptions and offers a powerfully frank and hopeful look at an experience often portrayed as bleak.

Someone Has Led This Child to Believe

Author : Regina Louise
Publisher : Agate Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1572848154
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (728 download)

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Download or read book Someone Has Led This Child to Believe written by Regina Louise and published by Agate Publishing. This book was released on 2018-07-10 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An unforgettable memoir about one woman’s story of overcoming neglect in the U.S. foster-care system and finding her place in the world. Drawing on her experience as one of society’s abandoned children, Regina Louise tells how she emerged from the cruel, unjust system, not only to survive, but to flourish . . . After years of jumping from one fleeting, often abusive home to the next, Louise meets a counselor named Jeanne Kerr. For the first time in her young life, Louise knows what it means to be seen, wanted, understood, and loved. After Kerr tries unsuccessfully to adopt Louise, the two are ripped apart—seemingly forever—and Louise continues her passage through the cold cinder-block landscape of a broken system, enduring solitary confinement, overmedication, and the actions of adults who seem hell-bent on convincing her that she deserves nothing, that she is nothing. But instead of losing her will to thrive, Louise remains determined to achieve her dream of a higher education. After she ages out of the system, Louise is thrown into adulthood and, haunted by her trauma, struggles to finish school, build a career, and develop relationships. As she puts it, it felt impossible “to understand how to be in the world.” Eventually, Louise learns how to confront her past and reflect on her traumas. She starts writing, quite literally, a new future for herself, a new way to be. Louise weaves together raw, sometimes fragmented memories, excerpts from real documents from her case file, and elegant reflections to tell the story of her painful upbringing and what came after. The result is a rich, engrossing account of one abandoned girl’s efforts to find her place in the world, people to love, and people to love her back. Praise for Someone Has Led This Child to Believe “Regina Louise’s childhood ordeal and quest to find true family are enthralling and ultimately triumphant. I cheered her every step of the way.” —Julia Scheeres, New York Times–bestselling author of Jesus Land “Revealing and much needed.” —Booklist “Her story had a distinctly raw edge to it, as she chronicled . . . how she was deemed mentally disturbed and incorrigible for wanting what so many children from intact families took for granted, and how she triumphed over unbelievable odds.” —Kirkus Reviews “There’s pain and beauty in Louise’s vulnerability and her willingness to evict personal experience from the singular realm of self and take it into the world.” —Foreword Reviews

Memoirs of a Foster Child

Author : Louise DeStefano
Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 69 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (86 download)

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Download or read book Memoirs of a Foster Child written by Louise DeStefano and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2023-05-05 with total page 69 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: About the Book In this touching memoir, Louise DeStefano explores how difficult it was to grow up without a stable home. She was shifted from one foster home to another while enduring abuse along the way. She always longed for the love of her mother. She wishes to share how the foster system failed her and her sister. Louise DeStefano also wants others who have been raised by loving parents to see how blessed they are by God. About the Author Louise DeStefano was born in 1946 in Bayshore, New York, and she currently resides in Aquebogue, New York. She wanted to be a secretary ever since the age of four, which she did accomplish. She is currently retired and enjoys making crafts and designing pictures, both of which are displayed on Etsy. Her family is the most important thing in her life. She has seven children, twenty-two grandchildren, and five great-grandchildren, all of which are her reason for living. She is involved in the Community Baptist Church not too far from her home that she attends twice a week.

Cut: The true story of an abandoned, abused little girl who was desperate to be part of a family

Author : Cathy Glass
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 0007287151
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (72 download)

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Book Synopsis Cut: The true story of an abandoned, abused little girl who was desperate to be part of a family by : Cathy Glass

Download or read book Cut: The true story of an abandoned, abused little girl who was desperate to be part of a family written by Cathy Glass and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2009-01-19 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Million-copy bestselling author Cathy Glass tells the story of Dawn, a sweet and seemingly well-balanced girl whose outward appearance masks a traumatic childhood of suffering at the hands of the very people who should have cared for her.

In the Care of Strangers

Author : D. Alexander Holiday
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1450058760
Total Pages : 419 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book In the Care of Strangers written by D. Alexander Holiday and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2010-04-28 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In three previous books, through a selection of prose poems, the author shared bits and pieces of a life, one comprised of complete abandonment by a mother and the disconnected roles played by extended family members, a life that eventually led to being placed in foster care. Now, for the first time, with In the Care of Strangers, he tells the entire story of what such a life was actually like. In this five-part memoir, dependent on the seven deadly sins, the author tries to reconstruct a painful journey of coming of age under the literal care of strangers and the individuals that made up the foster homes and hospitals that would help to shape a young man’s life, certainly a difficult life, riddled with abuse from the start (Malice) and ending with greed and envy in a fourth and final home. He finds and develops pride in himself while recuperating from a paralysis. How this young man attempts to survive the experiences of foster care while also having to contend with a disability, and still managing to try to simply achieve graduation from high school, with a goal toward college, is a testament to a human spirit beyond measure. This riveting story, told through an innocent, almost childlike voice of a boy shocked into care, then as an older man who has come to terms with his situation (The Unclaimed), and finally through the poetry, should be taken as an inspiration for many.

An Innocent Baby: Why would anyone abandon little Darcy-May?

Author : Cathy Glass
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 0008466491
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (84 download)

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Book Synopsis An Innocent Baby: Why would anyone abandon little Darcy-May? by : Cathy Glass

Download or read book An Innocent Baby: Why would anyone abandon little Darcy-May? written by Cathy Glass and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2021-09-16 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When foster carer, Cathy Glass, is asked to foster Darcy-May, a two-day old baby, she is very concerned.

Will You Love Me?: The story of my adopted daughter Lucy

Author : Cathy Glass
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 0007530927
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (75 download)

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Book Synopsis Will You Love Me?: The story of my adopted daughter Lucy by : Cathy Glass

Download or read book Will You Love Me?: The story of my adopted daughter Lucy written by Cathy Glass and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2013-09-12 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This eleventh memoir and latest title from the internationally bestselling author and foster carer Cathy Glass can either be read as a full eBook or in 3 serialised eBook-only parts. Will You Love Me tells the true story of Cathy’s adopted daughter Lucy.

Stranger Care

Author : Sarah Sentilles
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 0593230043
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (932 download)

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Download or read book Stranger Care written by Sarah Sentilles and published by Random House Trade Paperbacks. This book was released on 2022-05-03 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE • “A powerful, heartbreaking, necessary masterpiece.”—Cheryl Strayed, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Wild The moving story of what one woman learned from fostering a newborn—about injustice, about making mistakes, about how to better love and protect people beyond our immediate kin May you always feel at home. After their decision not to have a biological child, Sarah Sentilles and her husband, Eric, decide to adopt via the foster care system. Despite knowing that the system’s goal is the child’s reunification with the birth family, Sarah opens their home to a flurry of social workers who question them, evaluate them, and ultimately prepare them to welcome a child into their lives—even if it means most likely having to give the child back. After years of starts and stops, and endless navigation of the complexities and injustices of the foster care system, a phone call finally comes: a three-day-old baby girl named Coco, in immediate need of a foster family. Sarah and Eric bring this newborn stranger home. “You were never ours,” Sarah tells Coco, “yet we belong to each other.” A love letter to Coco and to the countless children like her, Stranger Care chronicles Sarah’s discovery of what it means to mother—in this case, not just a vulnerable infant but the birth mother who loves her, too. Ultimately, Coco’s story reminds us that we depend on family, and that family can take different forms. With prose that Nick Flynn has called “fearless, stirring, rhythmic,” Sentilles lays bare an intimate, powerful story with universal concerns: How can we care for and protect one another? How do we ensure a more hopeful future for life on this planet? And if we’re all related—tree, bird, star, person—how might we better live?

Three Little Words

Author : Ashley Rhodes-Courter
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439106649
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book Three Little Words written by Ashley Rhodes-Courter and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2008-06-20 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Sunshine, you're my baby and I'm your only mother. You must mind the one taking care of you, but she's not your mama." Ashley Rhodes-Courter spent nine years of her life in fourteen different foster homes, living by those words. As her mother spirals out of control, Ashley is left clinging to an unpredictable, dissolving relationship, all the while getting pulled deeper and deeper into the foster care system. Painful memories of being taken away from her home quickly become consumed by real-life horrors, where Ashley is juggled between caseworkers, shuffled from school to school, and forced to endure manipulative,humiliating treatment from a very abusive foster family. In this inspiring, unforgettable memoir, Ashley finds the courage to succeed - and in doing so, discovers the power of her own voice.

Gegereti

Author : Margaret Emalereta Akpomi
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789780698706
Total Pages : 153 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (987 download)

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Download or read book Gegereti written by Margaret Emalereta Akpomi and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An autobiography of the early childhood of Margaret Emalereta Akpomi."--Back cover.

Girl '44

Author : Nan Shirley Ann Miller
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781936778331
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (783 download)

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Download or read book Girl '44 written by Nan Shirley Ann Miller and published by . This book was released on 2013-07-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Girl '44" is the story of an innocent child's survival in a harsh world. Until the age of seven, Nan Shirley Ann Miller lived, unknowingly, behind a shattered mirror of bad luck: abandonment by her birth parents, life in an orphanage and numerous foster care facilities until she was finally adopted into a high society family. Known as "Girl '44" by the Cuyahoga County Department of Human Services in Ohio, Nan Shirley Ann Miller reunited with her birth family after a miraculous chain of events - fifty-five years after being adopted. This helped her to answer many questions about herself, including the discovery of her Cherokee ancestry. In the space of three whirlwind months, Nan's older sister Betsy - "Girl '43" - re-entered her life, and revealed many of her recollections of their tragic early childhood, including the details of Nan's hidden away memories of physical abuse. Although handed a difficult start in life, today Nan successfully enjoys her multiple roles as wife, mother, grandmother, sister, educator, artist, clown, and writer.

Broken: Memoir of a Little Girl

Author : Barbara Diamond
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0359876145
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (598 download)

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Download or read book Broken: Memoir of a Little Girl written by Barbara Diamond and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2020-02-16 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn how a girl survives her childhood and teenager years from abandonment, foster care, rape, depression, suicide attempts and many more.learn what these things really are and how you can get help.

Thrown Away Child

Author : Louise Allen
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1471166759
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (711 download)

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Download or read book Thrown Away Child written by Louise Allen and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-12-28 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR Thrown Away Child is a memoir covering Louise Allen’s abusive childhood in a foster home, how she survived - using her love of art as a sanctuary - and how she hopes to right old wrongs now by fostering children herself and campaigning for the improvement of foster care services. It is a compelling and inspirational story. This book gives a voice to the many children who grew up unhappily in care.

Three More Words

Author : Ashley Rhodes-Courter
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1481415581
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (814 download)

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Download or read book Three More Words written by Ashley Rhodes-Courter and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-06-28 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Rhodes-Courter expands on life beyond the foster care system, the joys and heartbreak with a family she's created, and her efforts to make peace with her past"--Amazon.com.

Foster Care Odyssey

Author : Theresa Cameron
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 9781578064205
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (642 download)

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Download or read book Foster Care Odyssey written by Theresa Cameron and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An African-American woman offers readers an unflinching look at the foster care system, sharing her own story of being victimized by the system that was supposed to nurish and protect her.

Untouchable Flame

Author : Kemisha L. Swan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781468598254
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (982 download)

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Download or read book Untouchable Flame written by Kemisha L. Swan and published by . This book was released on 2012-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Untouchable Flame, a hundred and eighty page memoir, is an inspiring, true-life journey. It tells the story of a young girl born on the West Side of Chicago, who was often left by her parents, along with her siblings, in a dark, cold, rat-infested basement without food and proper clothing for weeks at a time, waiting for their mother to return from her drug induced gambits to care for them. Terrified by the nightly visits from two of her relatives, who began molesting her at the age of seven, this young girl was forced to turn to the only person she could trust: her poor, disabled grandmother, who despite her lack of education and advantages, taught the children in her care how to pray and believe in God. The children's faith in God was sorely tested when a tragedy happened, killing both her grandmother and step-grandfather. With no one to confide in, and traumatized by the tragic death of her grandparents, the author and her five siblings were placed into different foster homes, shelters, and group homes over the course of eighteen years. Untouchable Flame was written to touch the lives of thousands of people, who may have experienced the same kind of pain, and help them gain strength through the example of someone who was able to overcome great odds and eventually receive an education that allowed her to share her story.