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GingerAntics
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A complete 180 from the first book I read today.
This tore out my heart and shredded it! I cried so hard and so much. Just when I thought it couldn‘t get worse, it did. This poor girl went through SO much. I just wanted to hug her and hug Maggie. So much on the shoulders of a 14 year old girl. I‘m so glad she got out, and I really hope she‘s happy and healthy now.
#MaggieHartley #SoldToBeAWife #FosterCare #WitnessProtection

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readingjedi
Home Girl | Alex Wheatle
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Pickpick

Fresh & punchy YA novel about a troubled teenage white girl placed with a black foster family. Naomi is so well written, such an authentic representation of a young girl in the care system, her thoughts, reactions & language are just so realistic. Not sure I've ever read such believable teenage dialogue as features here. Great mix of tragedy/hope, vulnerability/resilience, sadness/humour, the heart-warming/the genuinely shocking.

readingjedi Was very sad to discover the author of this book passed away while I was reading this. 3d
TheEllieMo I didn‘t know he‘d passed away 😔 he was such a good writer 3d
readingjedi @TheEllieMo His obituary was in the Guardian yesterday 😥 3d
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readingjedi
Home Girl | Alex Wheatle
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Starting this one today.

Happy First Day of Spring! 🐣🌿🐦🌞

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Roary47
Stolen Childhood | Casey Watson
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3✨ Going into this book I knew I was going to be uncomfortable. Casey is a behaviorist at a children‘s school, so all the troubled kids come to her. When she meet Kiara and learns her history there are red flags that she is slipping through the system. While there are many kids in this class dealing with more real life than they should, Kiara has a worse case scenario that literally made my jaw drop at one point. Poor kid. #Roll100 February

PuddleJumper Great job! 1mo
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KatieRose23
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Honestly where to begin… this book broke my heart. And as a social work student, soon to be a working clinical social worker, it broke my heart in many different ways. It‘s saddening to read about another child abuse victim who could have been saved much quicker if social services had intervened sooner. It‘s even more disheartening to read about a foster parent profiting from the misfortunes of one of her children. 3.5⭐️

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Eggs
Peace, Locomotion | Jacqueline Woodson
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“No matter how big you get, it's still okay to cry because everybody's got a right to their own tears.”

#Peace #25Alive

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ChaoticMissAdventures Woodson is one of my all time favorite authors I just love her so much. 3mo
willaful Oh, I had no idea she wrote another book! Haven't read Locomotion in forever, but I'll have to check this out. 3mo
Eggs @ChaoticMissAdventures Absolutely 💯 Agree 👍🏼 3mo
Eggs @willaful I adore Woodson 🩵🩷 3mo
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KatieRose23
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Honestly, I have mixed emotions while reading this book. As a social work student I have found that this book brings up a lot of important points and issues about foster care and social services as well as brings up a lot of the emotional aspects of the job. With that being said I also found that there are some ethical concerns raised with this book. In a way, I feel that Glass is exploiting these children by writing about them.

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Yenya1954
The Lost Boy | Dave Pelzer
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Pickpick

What a sad story about a young boy who was severely abused by his biological mother. Dave Pelzer tells of the tragic ways his alcoholic mother tortured him. Foster care didn‘t improve his life situations much . Foster parents and their charges don‘t always work for as it should for the child. Often times it takes several homes before the Foster parents & children fit well. 4/5

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GirlNamedJesse
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Hank has my whole heart! This poor kid is put in impossible situation after impossible situation. It was absolutely maddening to see adults treat an 11-year-old kid like he‘s supposed to be able to make decisions way above his maturity level. I appreciated the realistic and hopeful nature of the ending. 💙

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RobES
Orbiting Jupiter | Gary D. Schmidt
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Both these books were 5 🌟 they were very different, but both made me cry. I now get the obsession with the Throne of Glass series!!! Lorcan and Elide ❤️