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House of Tomorrow
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Claire Lorrimer |
This is the moving story of Jeanette Roberts, a young London girl who survived appalling abuse in her own childhood, and so determined to give other children in the same position the love and care sh… |
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Annie's Ghosts
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Steve Luxenberg |
Beth Luxenberg was an only child. Everyone knew it: her grown children, her friends, even people she’d only recently met. So when her secret emerged, her son Steve Luxenberg was bewildered. He was ce… |
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Oranges And Sunshine Empty Cradles
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Margaret Humphreys |
383 p., [16] p. of plates : 20 cm |
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The White House boys
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Roger Dean Kiser |
The author, one of many boys suffering verbal, sexual, and physical abuse at the hands of their caretakers, tells the story of his boyhood years in the Florida Industrial School for Boys in Marianna.… |
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Church of Marvels
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Leslie Parry |
"New York, 1895. Sylvan Threadgill, a night soiler cleaning out the privies behind the tenement houses, finds an abandoned newborn baby in the muck. An orphan himself, Sylvan rescues the child, deter… |
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Applying the Children Act (1989) in boarding and residential environments
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Ewan W. Anderson,Alan J. Davison |
x, 220 p. : 23 cm |
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The trials of Nina McCall
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Scott W. Stern |
The nearly forgotten story of the fight against the American Plan, a government program designed to regulate women’s bodies and sexuality
Nina McCall was one of many women unfairly imprisoned by t… |
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Lost to the State
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Elena Khlinovskaya Rockhill |
Childhood held a special place in Soviet society: seen as the key to a better future, children were imagined as the only privileged class. Therefore, the rapid emergence in post-Soviet Russia of the … |
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The chosen ones
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Steve Sem-Sandberg |
"The Am Spiegelgrund clinic, in glittering Vienna, masqueraded as a well-intentioned reform school for wayward boys and girls and a home for chronically ill children. The reality, however, was very d… |
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No more silence
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David Whelan |
"David had everything. No-one knew the London businessman was born into a world beyond poverty, the son of a rapist father and disturbed mother. Abandoned as a baby, he spent most of his childhood in… |
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Don't ever tell
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Kathy O'Beirne |
Kathy recounts her tragic experiences as a Magdalen girl in unflinching detail, along the way stirring up many extreme emotions. She details her will to survive horrific circumstances and her subsequ… |
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Closing children's homes
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National Children's Bureau.,David Cliffe,David Berridge |
This ebook examines the crisis of confidence in residential child care in the early 1990's and assesses the potential benefits of alternatives such as foster care. |
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Raising gentle men
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Jay Sullivan |
For more than 100 years, a small band of nuns have run Alpha Boys School in Kingston, caring for the abandoned, abused and delinquent boys of Jamaica. From 1984-1986, they allowed the author to share… |
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Stolen
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Jane Harrison |
Tells of five young Aboriginal children forcibly removed from their parents, brought up in a repressive children's home and trained for domestic service and other menial jobs. This tender and moving … |
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The Dare Game
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Jacqueline Wilson |
A fabulous new cover look for this brilliant story starring Tracy Beaker, Jacqueline Wilson's most enduring and popular characterI'M TRACY BEAKER, THE GREAT INVENTOR OF EXTREMELY OUTRAGEOUS DARES - A… |
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The story of Tracy Beaker
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Jacqueline Wilson,Nick Sharratt |
'I'm Tracy Beaker. This is a book all about me. I'd read it if I were you. It's the most incredible dynamic heart-rending story. Honest.'
Tracy is ten years old. She lives in a Children's Home but… |
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Special education in context
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John Joseph Gleason |
ix, 165 p. : 24 cm |
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Institutionalization of the elderly in Canada
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William F. Forbes |
c1987 |
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Nursing Homes & Assisted Living Facilities
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Linda H. Connell |
Are Tough Choices Ahead?You love your parents and remember them as strong and in control. But now, they need your help. They cannot take care of themselves the way they once could and it is up to you… |
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Bye-bye Charlie
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Corinne Manning |
"Bye-Bye Charlie is the first publication to interweave a large collection of oral testimony with documentary evidence to record the history of an Australian institution for intellectually disabled p… |
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