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Author
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
870L
Physical Desc
304 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Ashley spent nine years in foster care after being taken away from her mother. She endured many caseworkers, moving from school to school and manipulative, humiliating and abusive treatment from one foster family. See how she survives and eventually thrives against the odds.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xv, 404 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"May you always feel at home. After their decision not to have a biological child, Sarah Sentilles and her husband, Eric, decided to adopt via the foster care system. Knowing that the goal is reunification with the birth family, Sarah opens their home to a flurry of social workers who question, evaluate, and ultimately prepare them to welcome a child into their family--even if it most likely means giving them up. After years of starts and stops, a...
Author
Lexile measure
1430L
Language
English
Description
"From 1850 to 1930 America witnessed a unique emigration and resettlement of at least 200,00 children and several thousand adults, primarily from the East Coast to the West. This 'placing out,' an attempt to find homes for the urban poor, was best known by the 'orphan trains' that carried the children. Holt carefully analyzes the system, initially instituted by the New York Children's Aid Society in 1853, tracking its imitators as well as the reasons...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The shocking, deeply reported story of a murder-suicide that claimed the lives of six children-and a searing indictment of the American foster care system"--
On March 26, 2018, rescue workers discovered a crumpled SUV and the bodies of two women and several children at the bottom of a cliff beside the Pacific Coast Highway. Investigators soon concluded that the crash was a murder-suicide, but there was more to the story: Jennifer and Sarah Hart,...
Author
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
vi, 260 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
The Children Money Can Buy covers decades of dramatic societal change in foster care and adoption, including the pendulum swings regarding open adoption and attitudes toward birth parents, the gradual acceptance of gay and lesbian adoption, the proliferation of unregulated adoption facilitators in the U.S., ethical concerns related to international adoption, and the role money inevitably plays in the foster care and adoption systems. Special attention...
Author
Publisher
ZeeT Publishing
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
226 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Nine-year-old Sarah Bailey tries to survive in a family full of emotional, physical, and sexual abuse while trying to protect her younger brother. Curtis and Sarah learn that asking for Just Another Slice of toast is not the only thing they will be denied. Yet in a world full of cruelty, Sarah finds kindness and happiness in the most unsuspecting people, places and things" --
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
440 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Riders on the Orphan Train is a novel about a little-known piece of American history. Bewteen 1854 and 1929, over 250,000 orphans and 'surrendered' children were 'placed out' across the country. They started their journey in New York and were given away in train stations in every state in the continental United States. This is the story of two children from very different backgrounds, Ezra Duval and Elizabeth Farrell, who find themselves on the same...
Author
Publisher
Topple Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
236 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations, portraits ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Trans woman Precious Brady-Davis recalls her childhood growing up in the Omaha foster care system and Pentecostal faith as a biracial, gender-nonconforming child.
Precious Brady-Davis remembers the sense of being singular and grappling with {28}otherness.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
232 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Zion Clark has always had big dreams for himself despite the many hardships he faced growing up as a Black disabled child in the foster care system of Ohio. His childhood years were marked by instability as he moved from home to home, experiencing abuse and neglect. And yet his determination and grit pushed him to become an elite wrestler and wheelchair racer. His constant reinvention led him to activism, speaking out about the failings of the foster...
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First Atria Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 291 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A heartrending and unforgettable memoir of an unlikely journey to parenthood through America's broken foster care system. What does it take to keep a child safe? As a long-time strategist and activist fighting for better outcomes for foster children, Mark Daley thought he had the answer. But when Ethan and Logan, an adorable infant and a precocious toddler, entered into their lives, Mark and his husband Jason quickly realized they were not remotely...