Foster Child Memoirs
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Damaged: The Heartbreaking True Story of a Forgotten Child
- By: Cathy Glass
- Narrated by: Denica Fairman
- Length: 8 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Although Jodie is only eight years old, she is violent, aggressive, and has already been through numerous foster families. Her last hope is Cathy Glass. At the Social Services office, Cathy (an experienced foster carer) is pressured into taking Jodie as a new placement. Jodie's challenging behaviour has seen off five carers in four months. Despite her reservations, Cathy decides to take on Jodie to protect her from being placed in an institution.
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Damaged.
- By Elba on 28-10-2015
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Damaged: The Heartbreaking True Story of a Forgotten Child
- Narrated by: Denica Fairman
- Length: 8 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 26-06-2014
- Language: English
- Although Jodie is only eight years old, she is violent, aggressive, and has already been through numerous foster families....
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Is It My Fault Mummy?
- And other true stories from the nation's favourite foster carer
- By: Maggie Hartley
- Narrated by: Penny McDonald
- Length: 5 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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'Is It My Fault Mummy?': seven-year-old Paris is trapped in a prison of guilt. Devastated after the death of her baby brother, Joel, Maggie faces one of her most heartbreaking cases yet as she tries to break down the wall of guilt surrounding this damaged little girl. 'A Desperate Cry for Help': 12-year-old Meg arrives at Maggie's after a fire destroys the children's home she's been living in. Traumatised by the fire and angry and vulnerable, having been put into care by her mother, Meg is lashing out at everyone around her.
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Is It My Fault Mummy?
- And other true stories from the nation's favourite foster carer
- Narrated by: Penny McDonald
- Series: A Maggie Hartley Foster Carer Story
- Length: 5 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 23-07-2020
- Language: English
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These heartwarming and inspiring short stories show the power of a foster mother's love and her determination to help the children who come into her care....
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Sky's Story
- Thrown Away Children, Book 5
- By: Louise Allen
- Narrated by: Melanie Crawley
- Length: 8 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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When Sky and her older sister Avril were taken into care, the social workers knew this was a case like no other. Raised by unhinged parents who hoarded compulsively, creating horrific conditions no child should live in, the two girls arrived at foster carer Louise's home, neglected, malnourished and indoctrinated. Louise had to draw on all of her experience as one of Britain's leading foster carers to rehabilitate and change the course of their lives.
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Another great look foster care
- By Jane on 05-11-2023
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Sky's Story
- Thrown Away Children, Book 5
- Narrated by: Melanie Crawley
- Series: Thrown Away Children, Book 5
- Length: 8 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 21-07-2022
- Language: English
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When Sky and her older sister Avril were taken into care, the social workers knew this was a case like no other. Raised by unhinged parents who hoarded compulsively, creating horrific conditions no child should live in, the two girls arrived at foster carer Louise's home....
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The Poison Tree
- A True Story of Family Terror
- By: Alan Prendergast
- Narrated by: Mel Foster
- Length: 14 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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One cold November night, in Cheyenne, Wyoming, fifteen-year-old Richard Jahnke Jr., ROTC leader and former Boy Scout, waited for his parents to return from celebrating the twentieth anniversary of the night they met. When his father got out of the car, the boy blasted him through the heart with a twelve-gauge pump-action shotgun. Richard's seventeen-year-old sister, Deborah, was sitting on the living room couch with a high-powered rifle - just in case her brother missed.
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The Poison Tree
- A True Story of Family Terror
- Narrated by: Mel Foster
- Length: 14 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 20-08-2019
- Language: English
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The shocking account of a Wyoming father who terrorized his family for years - until his children plotted a deadly solution....
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Garbage Bag Suitcase
- A Memoir
- By: Shenandoah Chefalo
- Narrated by: Coleen Marlo
- Length: 5 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Shenandoah Chefalo is on a wholly dysfunctional journey through a childhood with neglectful, drug- and alcohol-addicted parents. She endures numerous moves in the middle of the night with just minutes to pack, multiple changes in schools, hunger, cruelty, and loneliness. Finally at the age of 13, Shen had had enough. After being abandoned by her mother for months at her grandmother's retirement community, she asks to be put into foster care. Surely she would fare better at a stable home than living with her mother?
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Garbage Bag Suitcase
- A Memoir
- Narrated by: Coleen Marlo
- Length: 5 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 30-01-2018
- Language: English
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Shenandoah Chefalo is on a wholly dysfunctional journey through a childhood with neglectful, drug- and alcohol-addicted parents. She endures numerous moves in the middle of the night with just minutes to pack, multiple changes in schools, hunger, cruelty, and loneliness....
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Ordinary Hazards
- A Memoir
- By: Nikki Grimes
- Narrated by: Nikki Grimes
- Length: 4 hrs and 36 mins
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Growing up with a mother suffering from paranoid schizophrenia and a mostly absent father, Nikki Grimes found herself terrorized by babysitters, shunted from foster family to foster family, and preyed upon by those she trusted. At the age of six, she poured her pain onto a piece of paper late one night - and discovered the magic and impact of writing. For many years, Nikki's notebooks were her most enduing companions. In this accessible and inspiring memoir, Nikki shows how the power of those words helped her conquer the hazards - ordinary and extraordinary - of her life.
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Ordinary Hazards
- A Memoir
- Narrated by: Nikki Grimes
- Length: 4 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 13-12-2019
- Language: English
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In her own voice, acclaimed author and poet Nikki Grimes explores the truth of a harrowing childhood in a compelling and moving memoir in verse....
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CinderGirl
- My Journey out of the Ashes to a Life of Hope
- By: Christina Meredith, Dr. Henry Cloud - foreword
- Narrated by: Hope Hoffman, Gabe Wicks - foreword
- Length: 4 hrs and 35 mins
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In CinderGirl, Christina tells her piercing and poignant story of leaving behind homelessness to become Ms. California and the founder of a nonprofit organization that provides advocacy for foster-care children.
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CinderGirl
- My Journey out of the Ashes to a Life of Hope
- Narrated by: Hope Hoffman, Gabe Wicks - foreword
- Length: 4 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 05-03-2019
- Language: English
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In CinderGirl, Christina tells her piercing and poignant story of leaving behind homelessness to become Ms. California and the founder of a nonprofit organization that provides advocacy for foster-care children....
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Ward of the State
- A Memoir of Foster Care
- By: Karlos Dillard
- Narrated by: Karlos Dillard
- Length: 4 hrs and 11 mins
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Ward of the State: A Memoir of Foster Care tells what happened to a little Black boy from the inner city of Detroit. This is the story of Karlos Dillard, who was severely neglected by his mother, who often left him and his siblings at home alone for weeks to fend for themselves. Enduring severe neglect and abuse, the boy was removed by the State of Michigan and put into foster care. Karlos was removed from his mother's care just to end up in foster homes that treated him worse. Karlos was told he was not loved, he was not wanted, and he was nothing but a ward of the state.
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Ward of the State
- A Memoir of Foster Care
- Narrated by: Karlos Dillard
- Length: 4 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 15-12-2021
- Language: English
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Ward of the State: A Memoir of Foster Care tells what happened to a little Black boy from the inner city of Detroit. This is the story of Karlos Dillard, who was severely neglected by his mother, who often left him and his siblings at home alone for weeks to fend for themselves....
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Finding Peter
- A True Story of the Hand of Providence and Evidence of Life After Death
- By: William Peter Blatty
- Narrated by: Mel Foster
- Length: 7 hrs and 38 mins
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William Peter Blatty, the best-selling author and Oscar Award-winning screenwriter of The Exorcist, lived a charmed life among the elite stars of Hollywood. His son, Peter, born over a decade after The Exorcist, grew from an apple-cheeked boy into an "imposing young man with a quick, warm smile". But when Peter died very suddenly from a rare disorder, Blatty's world turned upside down.
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Finding Peter
- A True Story of the Hand of Providence and Evidence of Life After Death
- Narrated by: Mel Foster
- Length: 7 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 02-06-2015
- Language: English
- William Peter Blatty, the best-selling author and Oscar Award-winning screenwriter of The Exorcist, lived a charmed life among the elite stars of Hollywood....
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A Chance in the World
- An Orphan Boy, a Mysterious Past, and How He Found a Place Called Home
- By: Steve Pemberton
- Narrated by: Steve Pemberton
- Length: 8 hrs and 5 mins
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A Chance in the World is the unbelievably true story of a wounded and broken boy destined to become a man of resilience, determination, and vision. Through it all, Steve's story teaches us that no matter how broken our past, no matter how great our misfortunes, we have it in us to create a new beginning and to build a place where love awaits.
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A Chance in the World
- An Orphan Boy, a Mysterious Past, and How He Found a Place Called Home
- Narrated by: Steve Pemberton
- Length: 8 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 09-10-2019
- Language: English
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A Chance in the World is the unbelievably true story of a wounded and broken boy destined to become a man of resilience, determination, and vision. Steve's story teaches us that no matter how broken our past, how great our misfortunes, we have it in us to create a new beginning....
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Saving Michael
- How Rescuing a "Throwaway Child" Turned Me into a Foster Care Advocate
- By: Keri Vellis
- Narrated by: Carlotta Brentan
- Length: 8 hrs and 25 mins
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Foster children are society's throwaway kids, the children no one wants—until someone finally does. Saving Michael provides an inside look at Keri Vellis's struggle to secure the best possible services for two severely abused and traumatized siblings. Listeners get a glimpse of Keri and her family's day-to-day life as she went from mother of three to adoptive mother of three more children and then the temporary caregiver of another seventeen.
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Saving Michael
- How Rescuing a "Throwaway Child" Turned Me into a Foster Care Advocate
- Narrated by: Carlotta Brentan
- Length: 8 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 18-07-2023
- Language: English
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Foster children are society's throwaway kids, the children no one wants—until someone finally does. Saving Michael provides an inside look at Keri Vellis's struggle to secure the best possible services for two severely abused and traumatized siblings....
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Double Luck
- Memoirs of a Chinese Orphan
- By: Chi Fa Lu
- Narrated by: David A. Conatser
- Length: 4 hrs and 55 mins
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Double Luck is filled with examples of how the human spirit can triumph over adversity. In the Chinese language, the word crisis is written with two symbols: one meaning "danger" and the other meaning "opportunity". Although Chi Fa's childhood was filled with crisis, he always looked for opportunity. His successful triumph over crisis after crisis is an inspiration for all who seek hope in the face of great challenges.
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Double Luck
- Memoirs of a Chinese Orphan
- Narrated by: David A. Conatser
- Length: 4 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 10-10-2018
- Language: English
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Double Luck is filled with examples of how the human spirit can triumph over adversity. Although Chi Fa's childhood was filled with crisis, he always looked for opportunity. His successful triumphs are an inspiration for all who seek hope in the face of great challenges....
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Molding My Destiny
- A Story of Hope That Takes One Child from Surviving to Thriving
- By: Patrice M Foster
- Narrated by: Labronda Champion
- Length: 8 hrs and 13 mins
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Molding My Destiny is a touching memoir that will tug at your heartstrings and inspire you to overcome any challenge. With honesty and vulnerability, Patrice Foster shares her journey of overcoming adversity, from the difficulties of growing up in poverty and being abandoned by her father to the challenges of battling depression as a teenager.
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Molding My Destiny
- A Story of Hope That Takes One Child from Surviving to Thriving
- Narrated by: Labronda Champion
- Length: 8 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 17-11-2023
- Language: English
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Molding My Destiny is a touching memoir that will tug at your heartstrings and inspire you to overcome any challenge....
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