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Author: Carol Knuth Publisher: ISBN: 9780985924300 Category : Foster children Languages : en Pages : 238
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Thrown into a world where her wits must be sharp if she is to survive, fourteen-year-old Emma Snow has left everything familiar behind. Eight months earlier, she had lived in a lazy small Midwestern town, where summer days consisted of chasing butterflies and watching oak leaves lift in the breeze. Her world changed after the dark family secret was exposed. Emma, relatively new to the life of a foster kid, is broken in by her new foster brother and her foster mother's boyfriend. She cannot escape her nightmares when asleep, and wakes in the middle of the night to find her nightmare has become a reality once again. Shattered, she finds her dream of belonging, of being like other girls just that, a dream. She begins to wonder if pain at the hands of boys and men will ever end. Will she ever be safe? Will she ever be wanted-loved? The Garbage Bag Girl is a story of hope, endurance, and strength, of finding ones place in the world. It is about the resiliency of the human spirit that carries us through-taking over when we would give up. It is a story of love lost, and of love that finds us when most needed-arriving in the most unexpected places and forms.
Author: Carol Knuth Publisher: ISBN: 9780985924300 Category : Foster children Languages : en Pages : 238
Book Description
Thrown into a world where her wits must be sharp if she is to survive, fourteen-year-old Emma Snow has left everything familiar behind. Eight months earlier, she had lived in a lazy small Midwestern town, where summer days consisted of chasing butterflies and watching oak leaves lift in the breeze. Her world changed after the dark family secret was exposed. Emma, relatively new to the life of a foster kid, is broken in by her new foster brother and her foster mother's boyfriend. She cannot escape her nightmares when asleep, and wakes in the middle of the night to find her nightmare has become a reality once again. Shattered, she finds her dream of belonging, of being like other girls just that, a dream. She begins to wonder if pain at the hands of boys and men will ever end. Will she ever be safe? Will she ever be wanted-loved? The Garbage Bag Girl is a story of hope, endurance, and strength, of finding ones place in the world. It is about the resiliency of the human spirit that carries us through-taking over when we would give up. It is a story of love lost, and of love that finds us when most needed-arriving in the most unexpected places and forms.
Author: Celeste Edmunds Publisher: ISBN: 9781958626634 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 0
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"This book is an honest and vulnerable first-person account of Celeste Edmunds a young woman who was raised by drug addict parents and, at a young age, learned to survive and protect her siblings among rapists and drug dealers. Eventually the state separated the family and Celeste was adopted, alone, into a dysfunctional, fractured home where she was treated, by a sadistic and manipulating mother, as an unwanted outsider. Contemplating taking her abuser's life, she eventually ran away, finding shelter wherever she could, until a compassionate woman stepped in to give her a home and love. Ultimately, Garbage Bag Girl, is an unforgettable story of hope." --
Author: Shenandoah Chefalo Publisher: ISBN: 9781943995035 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 196
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Garbage Bag Suitcase is the true story of Shenandoah Chefalo's wholly dysfunctional journey through a childhood with neglectful, drug-and alcohol addicted parents. She endured numerous moves in the middle of the night with just minutes to pack, multiple changes in schools, hunger, cruelty, and loneliness. Finally at the age of 13, Shen had had enough. After being abandoned by her mother for months at her grandmother's retirement community, she asked to be put into foster care. Surely she would fare better at a stable home than living with her mother? It turns out that it was not the storybook ending she had hoped for. With foster parents more interested in the income received by housing a foster child, Shen was once again neglected emotionally. The money she earned working at the local grocery store was taken by her foster parents to "cover her expenses." When a car accident lands her in the hospital with grave injuries and no one came to visit her during her three-week stay, she realizes she is truly all alone in the world. Overcoming her many adversities, Shen became part of the 3% of all foster care children who get into college, and the 1% who graduate. She became a successful businesswoman, got married, and had a daughter. Despite her numerous achievements in life though, she still suffers from the long-term effects of neglect, and the coping skills that she adapted in her childhood are not always productive in her adult life. Garbage Bag Suitcase is not only the inspiring and hair-raising story of one woman's journey to over- come her desolate childhood, but it also presents grass-root solutions on how to revamp the broken foster care system.
Author: Virginia Jeffers Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform ISBN: 9781502826015 Category : Christian life Languages : en Pages : 0
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"Though many criticize the foster care system, it is a necessity for over 400,000 children in the U.S. who have been neglected, abused and abandoned. It is not perfect, but it is the best we have. This is the true story of one such foster family, the Jeffers, who over the past 30 years have followed their 'calling' to provide a safe, secure, and loving home to children who, through no fault of their own, have become a part of the foster care system."--Back cover.
Author: Richard Paul Evans Publisher: ISBN: 9781737640202 Category : Languages : en Pages :
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When a father takes his family to the zoo, the zookeeper mistakes his son for an escaped monkey and locks him up. The father tries to free his son but without success.
Author: Miranda Paul Publisher: Millbrook Press ISBN: 1467762997 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 44
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In Njau, Gambia, discarded plastic bags littered the roads. Water pooled in them, bringing mosquitoes and disease. But Isatou Ceesay found a way to recycle the bags and transform her community. An inspirational true story.
Author: Carol Knuth Publisher: ISBN: 9780985924362 Category : Foster children Languages : en Pages : 228
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Almost beaten to death by her father at the age of three marks the start of a nightmarish childhood. Fro ten long years, Emma and her two sisters are beaten, sexually assaulted, and raped by their father. The neighbors look askance at the house on Third Street, but do nothing as three children suffer. When a crisis center counselor discovers the children's plight, relief may be finally in sight. All Emma wants is a chance to be normal - to live in a home where she doesn't have to fear for her safety. It's a simple, but seemingly imposssible, goal. The prequel to The Garbage Bag Girl, The House on Third Street takes an unflinching look at the horrors of physical and sexual abuse, while celebrating the resilience and adaptability of the human spirit.
Author: Amanda K. Morgan Publisher: Simon Pulse ISBN: 1481449583 Category : Young Adult Fiction Languages : en Pages : 304
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Pretty Little Liars meets Luckiest Girl Alive in this riveting novel about a practically perfect girl who is willing to do anything to make sure it stays that way. Absolutely anything. Things to know about Riley Stone: Riley Stone is just about perfect. (Ask anyone.) She has a crush on her French teacher, Alex Belrose. (And she suspects he likes her, too.) Riley has her entire life planned out. (The plan is nonnegotiable.) She’s never had a secret she couldn’t keep. (Not ever.) Riley is sure that her life is on the right track. (And nothing will change that.) She’s nothing like a regular teenager. (But she doesn’t have any problem admitting that.) Riley doesn’t usually play games. (But when she does, she always wins.) She thinks a game is about to start… But Riley always has a plan… And she always wins.
Author: Sarah Grace McCandless Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 074329324X Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 195
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As a lowly freshman named for "The King," Presley Moran walks high school corridors paved with the stuff of family legend. Her cousin Barry, a senior heartthrob and brainy varsity letterman, insists that looking good on paper is the key to success. But Presley's young aunt Betsi, a former homecoming queen, has her own ideas about good looks and how to use them. "Can you keep a secret?" Betsi asks Presley, who, at age fourteen, is eager for entrée into the adult world of beauty, attraction, and romance. But as Presley is about to discover, some secrets should never be revealed. Will the illicit thrill of being a trusted confidante, privy to the details of muddled entanglements and incompatible desires, be worth the consequences of guilt by association? Propelled by the crash of falling idols, The Girl I Wanted to Be is a timeless and true portrait of passion, loss, and hard-won wisdom.
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