"Am I Going To Heaven?": The Shocking Story of America's Street Kids

by Mary Rose McGeady

Librarian Note: This book is published without an ISBN.

Includes material for parents on parenting teenagers.

125 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1994

About the author

Sister Mary Rose McGeady, DC.

In 1946, she became a sister of the Daughters of Charity of Saint Vincent de Paul (DC).

She received a bachelor's degree in sociology from Emmanuel College in 1955 and a master’s degree in clinical psychology from Fordham University in 1961.

She served as executive director of the Nazareth Child Care Centre for Homeless Children in Boston, executive director of the Astor Home for Children in Rhinebeck, NY, associate director of Catholic Charities for the diocese of Brooklyn, and lastly as director of Covenant House (from 1990-2003), which the New York Times identified as "the nation’s largest network of shelters for homeless youngsters."

Reviews

[Clare Maria · Rating 4 out of 5]

A “quick read” that makes your heart want to love on every “misfit or troubled” child. “These are good kids that have been put into bad situations”.

[Emily Rigdon · Rating 5 out of 5]

I think I have most of the Covenant House Program of Public Awareness books that are out. Always a quick read, will break your heart, and put it back together.

[Danice · Rating 5 out of 5]

A moving read. I was touched to read about one of the children who was dying of HIV/AIDS. In 1994, the stigma regarding HIV/AIDS, the fear and lack of information about how it spread... reading Sister Mary Rose tell of holding Michelle's hand and praying and promising she would stay by her side, while this girl was on her deathbed dying of HIV/AIDS. The love and compassion of that letter moved me deeply.