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Just Another Hiding Place: A Foster Care Story Based on True Events
How do you hide from the monsters in your own house?
Anna Snow, caught in the foster care merry-go-round, is still being shuffled from house to house, but none of them are ever really home. By the time she’s ten years old, she’s been moved nine times, three of them happening in under three months. Anna finds a measure of love in one home, but the system yanks her away, simply because her caring foster mother is Black.
Anna’s also still dealing with the ache of being separated from her brother. Her only connection to him is the teddy bear he dropped as he was ripped from her arms. She’ll never see her brother again, but she clings to the bear, along with her treasured Raggedy Doll, reminding her she is not alone through each wrenching move. In each foster home she finds a place to hide from those hurting her, but she’ll soon discover she’ll need to find hiding spots again to escape a far more horrific kind of abuse.
In this fourth book in the “Garbage Bag Life” series, Anna is forced to face unimaginable loss and the dangers to a young girl growing up in a system rife with groomers and abusers.
Anna Snow, caught in the foster care merry-go-round, is still being shuffled from house to house, but none of them are ever really home. By the time she’s ten years old, she’s been moved nine times, three of them happening in under three months. Anna finds a measure of love in one home, but the system yanks her away, simply because her caring foster mother is Black.
Anna’s also still dealing with the ache of being separated from her brother. Her only connection to him is the teddy bear he dropped as he was ripped from her arms. She’ll never see her brother again, but she clings to the bear, along with her treasured Raggedy Doll, reminding her she is not alone through each wrenching move. In each foster home she finds a place to hide from those hurting her, but she’ll soon discover she’ll need to find hiding spots again to escape a far more horrific kind of abuse.
In this fourth book in the “Garbage Bag Life” series, Anna is forced to face unimaginable loss and the dangers to a young girl growing up in a system rife with groomers and abusers.
172 pages, Kindle Edition
Published July 31, 2024
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September 10, 2024
Great. Series
All 4 of her books were incredible! I hope she writes more, I will order them right away. I'm on some FB groups that read True Foster care stories and I have posted recommendations for this series, that's how great they are!
All 4 of her books were incredible! I hope she writes more, I will order them right away. I'm on some FB groups that read True Foster care stories and I have posted recommendations for this series, that's how great they are!
April 9, 2026
Her story just gets worse and worse. I hope all these people are in jail for how this little girl is treated. I hope she got back in touch with her brother again, and saw the foster families that were nice to her. I would like to read about how she met back up with her brother or how she saw her foster families that were nice. I hope by the end of this series. She finds a really good family.
July 7, 2025
I love all the ups and downs
This is 1 of those books that has a slow start but when it gets going it gets going! Loved this book and I'm so sad that its coming to an end I love this series
This is 1 of those books that has a slow start but when it gets going it gets going! Loved this book and I'm so sad that its coming to an end I love this series
October 31, 2025
oh my
I don’t know what year this all took place but there are tests doctors can do to prove kids are not lying. I don’t know why that caseworker never looked at the marks on your body. I am surprised none of those foster parents never unAlived any kids.
I don’t know what year this all took place but there are tests doctors can do to prove kids are not lying. I don’t know why that caseworker never looked at the marks on your body. I am surprised none of those foster parents never unAlived any kids.
November 4, 2025
Unbelievable!
It is disturbing to read all about Anna's horrible treatment. It broke my heart! I have to admit I shed many tears for this poor child! I certainly do not believe our foster system is working. I never knew that the system is so broken. Bless your heart , Anna!
It is disturbing to read all about Anna's horrible treatment. It broke my heart! I have to admit I shed many tears for this poor child! I certainly do not believe our foster system is working. I never knew that the system is so broken. Bless your heart , Anna!
July 15, 2025
Gripping.
I have read 4 books following on from the start. Not being able to put the books down until I had finished. I'm stuck for words to read what some children go through. All of the families that do wrong when a child is placed in their care, sole destroying !! Damaging, breaking siblings up when they are moved, separated from the love of each other. I hope the next book has a "momma J " reunion.
I have read 4 books following on from the start. Not being able to put the books down until I had finished. I'm stuck for words to read what some children go through. All of the families that do wrong when a child is placed in their care, sole destroying !! Damaging, breaking siblings up when they are moved, separated from the love of each other. I hope the next book has a "momma J " reunion.
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