 | Practical Tools for Foster Parents by Lana Temple-Plotz
Buy new: $11.21 / Used from: $3.80 The Boys Town Press published this instructive book to provide foster parents the tools they need to improve the lives of foster children.
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 | Another Place at the Table by Kathy Harrison
Buy new: $9.32 / Used from: $3.11 The uplifting memoir of the Harrison family's 13 years of foster parenting youth at-risk and the lessons they learned.
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 | Growing Up in the Care of Strangers: The Experiences, Insights and Recommendations of Eleven Former Foster Kids
Buy new: $27.95 / Used from: $25.00 A collection of 11 personal stories of foster care alumni who are now college-educated professionals and work with, research, write about and advocate on behalf of foster children, including their individual and collective recommendations for reforming the child welfare system.
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 | The Heart Knows Something Different: Teenage Voices from the Foster Care System : Youth Communication
Buy new: $12.78 / Used from: $5.54 Fifty-seven essays written by teens currently (at the time of writing) in foster care.
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 | Success as a Foster Parent: Everything You Need to Know About Foster Care by National Foster Parent Association
Buy new: $12.71 / Used from: $7.62 A great primer for individuals or couples thinking about becoming foster parents.
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 | Like Family: Growing Up in Other People's Houses, a Memoir by Paula McLain
Buy new: $19.99 / Used from: $0.01 A captivating memoir about the 14 years the author and her two sisters spent in a series of foster and adoptive homes.
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 | In whose best interest?: One child's odyssey, a nation's responsibility by John Seita
Buy used from: $8.93 The inspirational and revealing story of a foster child's odyssey through 17 foster homes and institutions that reveals what was required for him to grow beyond a painful past and earn his doctorate.
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 | Telling the Truth to Your Adopted or Foster Child: Making Sense of the Past by Betsy Keefer
Buy new: $24.25 / Used from: $8.17 This is an instructive book for caring substitute parents who realize the value of being truthful when addressing a foster or adoptive child's questions in developmentally sensitive ways.
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 | The Women Who Raised Me: A Memoir by Victoria Rowell
Buy new: $5.98 / Used from: $4.13 One woman's tribute to the value of loving relationships and guidance in foster care.
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 | Foster Parenting: A Simple Guide to Understanding What It's All About by Stacie Craig
Buy new: $14.95 / Used from: $35.34 A foster parent crafts a simple, no-nonsense guide to foster caring.
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 | There Is An Urgency by Gregrhi Arawn Love
Buy new: $13.45 / Used from: $22.13 An inspiring story of growing past the limitations imposed by drug-abusing parents and a horrifying foster care system experience to becoming a special education teacher.
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 | Hope's Boy by Andrew Bridge
Buy new: $11.99 / Used from: $0.58 A gut-wrenching memoir about the negative effects of inappropriate and dangerous child welfare placements, written by a former foster child who became a Harvard-trained attorney.
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 | Three Little Words: A Memoir by Ashley Rhodes-Courter
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $4.75 An inspiring read for kids currently in foster care.
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 | An Unlit Path by Deborah, L Hannah
Buy new: $13.25 / Used from: $8.11 Author Deborah Hannah bares her soul in this revealing story about fostering and adopting hard-to-place children.
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 | Kids Who Outwit Adults by John Seita
Buy used from: $49.22 Written by a former foster child and his mentor, this insightful book is a survival guide for everyone who works with, fosters or adopts hostile and resistant youth.
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 | The Star: A Story to Help Young Children Understand Foster Care by Cynthia Miller Lovell
Buy new: $7.95 / Used from: $26.59 A sensitive and beautifully illustrated book to help foster children 10 or younger transition to a foster care setting.
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 | On Their Own: What Happens to Kids When They Age Out of the Foster Care System by Martha Shirk
Buy new: $9.12 / Used from: $5.98 Aging out of foster care can be a very difficult adjustment, and too many foster care alumni struggle and succumb, while others succeed, as the case histories in this book attest to.
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 | Damaged by Cathy Glass
Buy new: $10.36 / Used from: $2.97 The emotionally-charged story of an inept and insensitive child welfare system, a devastated and dysfunctional foster child and the foster carer who saves her.
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 | Maybe Days: A Book for Children in Foster Care by Jennifer Wilgocki
Buy new: $9.95 / Used from: $5.31 This little gem of a book helps foster parents explain the foster care system to young foster kids.
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 | Families at Risk: A Guide to Understand and Protect Children and Care Givers Involved in Out-Of-Home or Adoptive Care by Jodee Kulp
Buy new: $29.95 / Used from: $1.71 Invaluable information for foster and adoptive parents of special needs children.
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 | Siblings in Adoption and Foster Care: Traumatic Separations and Honored Connections
Buy new: $49.95 / Used from: $50.00 This book tackles the often-forgotten issues resulting from separating siblings in foster and adoptive care.
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 | City of One: A Memoir by Francine Cournos
Buy new: $19.95 / Used from: $15.29 Chronicles the author's journey of healing after foster care and becoming a psychiatrist.
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 | The Lost Boy: A Foster Child's Search for the Love of a Family by Dave Pelzer
Buy new: $9.32 / Used from: $0.01 The uplifting story of a boy's journey through the foster care system in search of a family to love.
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 | Cry Out! by Phil E. Quinn
Buy used from: $0.58 A gripping true tale of foster care, adoption and abuse by caregivers.
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 | Me May Mary by Mary Cameron Kilgour
Buy used from: $8.23 Through her teen years in foster care and an orphanage, Mary struggles to overcome her past and embrace the future.
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