Don't Let the System Beat You
by Dwayne Wallace, Keaidy Bennett, and Melinda Nazario-Rodriguez
Renowned author and poet Nikki Grimes succinctly captures a childhood filled with both tragedy and courage and invites readers to join her as she seeks the truth of her past in this powerful memoir. Growing up with a mother suffering from paranoid schizophrenia and a mostly absent father, Nikki Grimes found herself terrorized by babysitters, shunted from foster family to foster family, and preyed upon by her mother's second husband. At the age of six, she poured her pain onto a piece of paper la...
Educare Senza Urlare (Libri Su Come Migliorare La Comunicazione E Sviluppare l'Autostima, #1)
by Leonardo Corte
Pocket Change Collective is a series of small books with big ideas from today’s leading activists and artists. Concrete Kids is an exploration of love and loss, melody and bloodshed. Musician, playwright, and educator Amyra Leon takes us on a poetic journey through her childhood in Harlem, as she navigates the intricacies of foster care, mourning, self-love, and resilience. In her signature free-verse style, she invites us all to dream with abandon - and to recognise the privilege it is to drea...
Il mio tempo (Consolazione, #15) (Il Mio Tempo, #1)
by Giuseppina D'Amato
The Adequacy of Foster Care Allowances (Cash & Care S.) (Routledge Revivals)
by Nina Oldfield
This text sets out an analytical framework to examine the adequacy of the foster care allowances, paid to foster parents for the upkeep of a foster child in England. The study is intended to inform debate on issues such as the cost of childrearing, the additional direct and indirect costs to foster parents of fostering a child, and has an international dimension comparing foster care allowances in 15 countries. The examination of allowances provides evidence that there is a change in the nature...
Reshuffled tells the life stories of former foster children, who despite all odds, craft productive lives. Within Reshuffled, former foster children share their trials and strategies to gain footing in their unpredictable lives with the hope that their stories can model, inspire, and encourage youth facing similar situations today. Tracy Gharbo and Linda Palmer have captured the authentic voices of the abused and abandoned children who become lawyers, social workers, military officers, colleg...
A true story about the perils of turning eighteen and aging out of the foster care system--written by the man who lived it.
Work with What You Got: A Memoir
by Zion Clark and James S. Hirsch
Elite wheelchair racer, wrestler, and America’s Got Talent contestant Zion Clark joins with New York Times best-selling author James S. Hirsch for a stunning memoir—recounting childhood adversity, awe-inspiring perseverance, and self-invention. When a baby named Zion was born in 1997 to an imprisoned, drug-addicted mother, his future seemed bleak. Born without legs due to a rare condition called caudal regression syndrome, Zion was abandoned and shunted to a foster-care system ill-equipped to c...
We`ve Been There – True Stories, Surprising Insights, and Aha Moments for Adopted Teens
by Susan TeBos
In Money Matters for Teens, young writers discuss their financial fears and the strategies they've learned to help them spend their money wisely, save for the future, and pay for college. The gap between the richest and the poorest Americans has been growing for decades, and experts predict it will continue to widen. Young people bear the brunt of this inequality because it makes it harder to get a job and to pay for the college education you need to move up the ladder. Political changes could h...
Bingo-Pam (Love & Relationships Of An Unlikely Side Chick, Mistress And Friend)
by Stella Stella
Over 400,000 US youth are in foster care, mainly due to neglect and abuse by their parents. These youth endure instability as they move from home to home, and uncertainty about their future as others make the decision as to whether they should be reunited with their families or become available for adoption. Foster Youth presents a powerful, real-world look at the lives of these vulnerable young people.
