The Heart Knows Something Different: Teenage Voices from the Foster Care System
by Youth Communication
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Author: Youth CommunicationEditor: Al Desetta
Foreword: Jonathan Kozol
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1996-10-01
ISBN: 0892552182
Number of pages: 256
Publisher: Persea
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Book Review: Takes you Inside Foster Care!
Summary: 5 Stars
This book takes you inside the world of foster care, a place that, you find out quickly isn't somewhere you want to be. The voices of the children themselves tell the stories in this collection of essays. We see things as they actually are: siblings are split up and sometimes never reunited, children's loyalties between abusive or neglectful parents and the "system" are questioned, kids age out of the system and are left to a world they know nothing about without a family to guide them. It is all here. It is all true. I challenge you to read it and not have it make you think long and hard about the way "the system" works and how it affects the kids.
Summary of The Heart Knows Something Different: Teenage Voices from the Foster Care System
A New York Public Library "Books for the Teen Age" selection.
There are more than 450,000 children living in foster care. The Heart Knows Something Different collects over three dozen personal narratives by young writers, ages 15 to 20, and provides an insider's account of growing up in "the system." It takes us into a world largely hidden from public view, and attests to the mix of pain and fear, and sometimes hope, and sometimes even happiness that the foster care experience involves.Adoption Books
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