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Fostering Books
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Another Place at the Table (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as fostering)
avg rating 4.20 — 3,663 ratings — published 2003
Damaged (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as fostering)
avg rating 4.28 — 19,401 ratings — published 2007
Another Forgotten Child (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as fostering)
avg rating 4.48 — 5,303 ratings — published
I Miss Mummy (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as fostering)
avg rating 4.45 — 4,686 ratings — published 2010
Three Little Words (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as fostering)
avg rating 4.20 — 17,644 ratings — published 2008
Cut: The True Story of an Abandoned, Abused Little Girl Who Was Desperate to Be Part of a Family (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as fostering)
avg rating 4.31 — 7,537 ratings — published 2008
The Connected Child: Bring Hope and Healing to Your Adoptive Family (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as fostering)
avg rating 4.44 — 6,134 ratings — published 2007
The Saddest Girl in the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as fostering)
avg rating 4.38 — 5,150 ratings — published 2009
Hidden (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as fostering)
avg rating 4.45 — 6,162 ratings — published 2007
Innocent: The True Story of Siblings Struggling to Survive (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 9 times as fostering)
avg rating 4.41 — 3,453 ratings — published 2019
Nobody’s Son: All Alex ever wanted was a family of his own (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as fostering)
avg rating 4.49 — 2,977 ratings — published 2017
Please Don’t Take My Baby (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as fostering)
avg rating 4.44 — 3,550 ratings — published 2014
Will You Love Me?: Lucy's Story: The Heartbreaking True Story of My Adopted Daughter and Her Desperate Search for a Loving Home (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as fostering)
avg rating 4.57 — 5,554 ratings — published 2013
Reframing Foster Care (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as fostering)
avg rating 4.48 — 503 ratings — published
Where has Mummy Gone?: When there is nothing left but memories… (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 8 times as fostering)
avg rating 4.50 — 3,325 ratings — published 2018
The Child Bride (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as fostering)
avg rating 4.48 — 3,261 ratings — published 2014
My Dad’s a Policeman: A Compelling Drama About a Young Boy Struggling to Survive the Foster Care System (Quick Reads)
by (shelved 8 times as fostering)
avg rating 4.14 — 2,851 ratings — published 2011
Saving Danny (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as fostering)
avg rating 4.49 — 2,400 ratings — published 2015
To the End of June: The Intimate Life of American Foster Care (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 8 times as fostering)
avg rating 4.01 — 3,519 ratings — published 2013
A Baby's Cry (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as fostering)
avg rating 4.32 — 5,230 ratings — published 2012
Mummy Told Me Not to Tell (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as fostering)
avg rating 4.38 — 6,214 ratings — published 2010
A Terrible Secret: Scared for her safety, Tilly places herself into care. A shocking true story. (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as fostering)
avg rating 4.41 — 2,918 ratings — published 2020
Cruel to Be Kind (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as fostering)
avg rating 4.48 — 2,734 ratings — published 2017
Daddy’s Little Princess (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as fostering)
avg rating 4.38 — 3,583 ratings — published 2014
Girl Alone (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as fostering)
avg rating 4.45 — 2,681 ratings — published 2015
Foster the Family: Encouragement, Hope, and Practical Help for the Christian Foster Parent (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as fostering)
avg rating 4.71 — 1,523 ratings — published
A Life Lost: The shocking true story (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 6 times as fostering)
avg rating 4.51 — 2,702 ratings — published
Keep the Doors Open: Lessons Learned from a Year of Foster Parenting (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as fostering)
avg rating 4.41 — 548 ratings — published
Finding Stevie (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 6 times as fostering)
avg rating 4.36 — 2,763 ratings — published 2019
Can I Let You Go? (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as fostering)
avg rating 4.52 — 2,440 ratings — published 2016
The Silent Cry (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as fostering)
avg rating 4.20 — 2,919 ratings — published 2016
A Stolen Childhood: A dark past, a terrible secret, a girl without a future (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as fostering)
avg rating 4.17 — 1,069 ratings — published 2015
The Night the Angels Came (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as fostering)
avg rating 4.54 — 5,028 ratings — published 2011
The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog: And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist's Notebook (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as fostering)
avg rating 4.58 — 42,501 ratings — published 2007
Foster (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as fostering)
avg rating 4.30 — 176,609 ratings — published 2010
An Innocent Baby: Why would anyone abandon little Darcy-May? (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5 times as fostering)
avg rating 4.57 — 2,522 ratings — published
The Connected Parent: Real-Life Strategies for Building Trust and Attachment (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5 times as fostering)
avg rating 4.53 — 1,741 ratings — published 2020
Too Scared to Tell (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5 times as fostering)
avg rating 4.55 — 2,892 ratings — published
Please Don't Take My Sisters (A Maggie Hartley Foster Carer Story)
by (shelved 5 times as fostering)
avg rating 4.71 — 1,305 ratings — published 2019
Tiny Prisoners (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5 times as fostering)
avg rating 4.53 — 3,606 ratings — published 2016
A Boy Without Hope: A Memoir of Resilience and Survival in the Foster Care System (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5 times as fostering)
avg rating 4.28 — 1,051 ratings — published
A Long Way from Home: A Gripping Memoir About the Dark Secrets That Left a Wanted Child in Foster Care (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5 times as fostering)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,511 ratings — published 2018
A Last Kiss for Mummy: A Teenage Mum, a Tiny Infant, a Desperate Decision (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as fostering)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,157 ratings — published 2013
The Girl in the Mirror (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as fostering)
avg rating 4.13 — 2,750 ratings — published 2010
Too Hurt to Stay: The True Story of a Troubled Boy’s Desperate Search for a Loving Home (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as fostering)
avg rating 4.39 — 1,379 ratings — published 2012
Mummy’s Little Helper: The Heartrending True Story of a Young Girl Secretly Caring for Her Severely Disabled Mother (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as fostering)
avg rating 4.43 — 1,403 ratings — published 2013
Crying for Help: The Shocking True Story of a Damaged Girl with a Dark Past (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as fostering)
avg rating 4.17 — 2,389 ratings — published 2012
Little Prisoners: A Tragic Story of Siblings Trapped in a World of Abuse and Suffering (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as fostering)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,854 ratings — published 2012
The Boy No One Loved (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5 times as fostering)
avg rating 4.22 — 3,018 ratings — published 2011
Unwanted: The care system failed Lara. Will she fail her own child? (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as fostering)
avg rating 4.39 — 1,936 ratings — published
“I am here because I worked too hard and too long not to be here. But although I told the university that I would walk across the stage to take my diploma, I won’t. At age fifty-seven, I’m too damned old, and I’d look ridiculous in this crowd. From where I’m standing in the back of the hall, I can see that I am at least two decades older than most of the parents of these kids in their black caps and gowns.
So I’ll graduate with this class, but I won’t walk across the stage and collect my diploma with them; I’ll have the school send it to my house. I only want to hear my name called. I’ll imagine what the rest would have been like. When you’ve had a life like mine, you learn to do that, to imagine the good things.
The ceremony is about to begin. It’s a warm June day and a hallway of glass doors leading to the parking lot are open, the dignitaries march onto the stage, a janitor slams the doors shut, one after the other.
That banging sound.
It’s Christmas Day 1961 and three Waterbury cops are throwing their bulk against our sorely overmatched front door. They are wearing their long woolen blue coats and white gloves and they swear at the cold.
They’ve finally come for us, in the dead of night, to take us away, just as our mother said they would.”
― No Time to Say Goodbye: A Memoir of a Life in Foster Care.
So I’ll graduate with this class, but I won’t walk across the stage and collect my diploma with them; I’ll have the school send it to my house. I only want to hear my name called. I’ll imagine what the rest would have been like. When you’ve had a life like mine, you learn to do that, to imagine the good things.
The ceremony is about to begin. It’s a warm June day and a hallway of glass doors leading to the parking lot are open, the dignitaries march onto the stage, a janitor slams the doors shut, one after the other.
That banging sound.
It’s Christmas Day 1961 and three Waterbury cops are throwing their bulk against our sorely overmatched front door. They are wearing their long woolen blue coats and white gloves and they swear at the cold.
They’ve finally come for us, in the dead of night, to take us away, just as our mother said they would.”
― No Time to Say Goodbye: A Memoir of a Life in Foster Care.
“That so many thousands of children around the world are available for adoption is a sign of our impoverished humanity. That so many persons around the world open their hearts and homes each year to embrace a few of these children is a lasting testimony to humanity's enduring nobility.”
― Successful Foster Care Adoption
― Successful Foster Care Adoption
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