- Close-up / by Dudevszky, Szabinka,1964-; Kers, Pieter,1968-,;
VO 12/99, SJ 09/99, PW 07/19/99, KK 07/01/99.Fifteen self-portraits of young people in the Netherlands who for various reasons cannot live with their parents, including those who have been physically or emotionally abused, those who have run away, and those in foster homes.1219- Subjects: Runaway children; Abused children; Child abuse.; Foster children; Runaways.; Foster home care.;
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© c1999., Front Street/Lemniscaat,
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- A forever family / by Banish, Roslyn,1942-; Jordan-Wong, Jennifer.;
Eight-year-old Jennifer Jordan-Wong describes her adoption by a family after four years of living as a foster child with many different families.- Subjects: Jordan-Wong, Jennifer.; Foster children; Family; Adopted children; Adoption.; Foster home care.; Family life.; Children's writings.;
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© 1992., HarperTrophy,
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- Three little words : a memoir / by
Rhodes-Courter, Ashley,
1985-
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A Junior Library Guild selectionAges 14 up.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.- Subjects: Rhodes-Courter, Ashley, 1985-; Adopted children; Foster children; Foster home care; Rhodes-Courter, Ashley, 1985-; Adopted children; Foster children; Foster home care;
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© c2008., Atheneum,
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- Three little words [sound recording] : a memoir / by
Rhodes-Courter, Ashley,
1985-
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- Read by the author.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.
- Subjects: Rhodes-Courter, Ashley, 1985-; Adopted children; Foster children; Foster home care; Audiobooks.;
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© p2008., Blackstone Audio,
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- Three little words : a memoir / by
Rhodes-Courter, Ashley,
1985-
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- 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.
- Subjects: Rhodes-Courter, Ashley, 1985-; Adopted children; Foster children; Foster home care;
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© 2009, c2008., Simon Pulse,
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- Mine for a year / by
Kuklin, Susan.
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- Text and illustrations describe a foster child's year spent socializing a puppy destined to be trained as a dog guide for a blind person.
- Subjects: Guide dogs; Children and animals; Foster children; Foster home care.; Dogs.; Guide dogs.;
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© c1984., Coward-McCann,
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- Troubled transplants : unconventional strategies for helping disturbed foster and adoptive children / by Delaney, Richard J.,1946-; Kunstal, Frank R.; National Child Welfare Resource Center for Management and Administration.;
Includes bibliographical references (p. 159-164) and index.- Subjects: Adopted children.; Foster children.; Abused children.; Problem children.;
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© 1993., National Child Welfare Resource Center for Management and Administration, Edmund S. Muskie Institute of Public Affairs, University of Southern Maine,
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ASSESSING THE LONG-TERM EFFECTS OF FOSTER CARE
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© 1996, CWLA PRESS
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- Unspeakable acts : the ordeal of Thomas Waters-Rimmer / by Morris, Greggory W.; Waters, Thomas J.;
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- Subjects: Waters, Thomas J.; Sexually abused children; Foster children; Child sexual abuse; Foster parents;
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© c1993., Morrow,
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- When home is no haven : child placement issues / by Solnit, Albert J.; Nordhaus, Barbara F.; Lord, Ruth,1922-;
Includes bibliographical references (p. 173-174) and index.- Subjects: Foster home care; Adoption; Abused children; Foster children; Child development;
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© c1992., Yale University Press,
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