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To the end of June : the intimate life of American foster care / Cris Beam.
LIBRA HV881 .B4193 2013
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Beam, Cris.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Foster home care--United States.
- Foster home care.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 313 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013.
- Summary:
- An intimate, authoritative look at the foster care system that examines why it is failing the kids it is supposed to protect and what can be done to change it.
- Contents:
- Catch. King Solomon's baby ; Eye of the beholder ; Timing is anything ; Drugs in the system ; Catch as catch can
- Hold. Surge control ; Chutes and ladders and chutes ; Arrested in development ; Taking agency ; Homespun
- Release. Fantasy islands ; There's something about Mary ; Experiment ; Touching the elephant ; Last call.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780151014125
- 0151014124
- OCLC:
- 666239949
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