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A Stolen Childhood: Part 2 of 3: A dark past, a terrible secret, a girl without a future
A Stolen Childhood can either be read as a full-length eBook or in 3 serialised eBook-only parts.
This is PART 2 of 3.
You can read Part 2 one week ahead of release of the full-length eBook and paperback.
Bestselling author and teacher Casey Watson shares the horrifying true story of Kiera Bentley, a 12-year-old girl with a deeply shocking secret she’s too young to even understand.
When Casey first meets Kiera, a small slight girl who’s just lashed out at a fellow pupil in assembly, she immediately senses something’s wrong. Something in Kiera’s eyes alerts Casey that this is an “old head on young shoulders”, and with Kiera’s constant tiredness and self-soothing habit of pulling her hair out, she follows her instinct and takes Kiera under her wing.
At first the answer seems simple enough; Kiera’s parents aren’t together and they don’t get on, which makes life hard for Kiera as she’s so close to her dad. But as the weeks roll on, Casey begins to understand that there’s something much darker going on behind closed doors. And when she finally learns the truth, she’s terrified she won’t be able to save Kiera from it.
This is PART 2 of 3.
You can read Part 2 one week ahead of release of the full-length eBook and paperback.
Bestselling author and teacher Casey Watson shares the horrifying true story of Kiera Bentley, a 12-year-old girl with a deeply shocking secret she’s too young to even understand.
When Casey first meets Kiera, a small slight girl who’s just lashed out at a fellow pupil in assembly, she immediately senses something’s wrong. Something in Kiera’s eyes alerts Casey that this is an “old head on young shoulders”, and with Kiera’s constant tiredness and self-soothing habit of pulling her hair out, she follows her instinct and takes Kiera under her wing.
At first the answer seems simple enough; Kiera’s parents aren’t together and they don’t get on, which makes life hard for Kiera as she’s so close to her dad. But as the weeks roll on, Casey begins to understand that there’s something much darker going on behind closed doors. And when she finally learns the truth, she’s terrified she won’t be able to save Kiera from it.
66 pages, Kindle Edition
First published May 28, 2015
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June 10, 2018
Another of Casey Watson's true life tales of her work as a teacher in a special unit to help children who had been having trouble in main stream school. Kiara is 12 and right from the start Casey is concerned how she deals with boys and her outlook on life. after much searching they find the mother the problem and Kiara is removed to a foster home then her wishes to live with her father are granted is that end of the poor girls problems or the start of more? a very touching detailed book with lots of twists and turns hard to think this really happened
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