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The Marvelous Journey Home

by John M. Simmons
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2007

The Marvelous Journey Home tells the remarkable story of parents and children coming together. This story, based on actual events, takes the reader through a rollercoaster of emotions as parents seek their child, who longs for the chance to have a family and travel home to a faraway place. With scenes...

The Second Chance

by Wyatt Harris
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013

Wyatt Harris was born with one arm in mainline China. Because of the one-child policy and figuring he would be of little value to the family, he was abandoned as an infant to an orphanage, where he was adopted by an American family at the age of three. The Second Chance is Wyatt’s story of his childhood...

New Families, Old Scripts

A Guide to the Language of Trauma and Attachment in Adoptive Families

by Caroline Archer
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2006

Most adopted children and their families will, sooner or later, encounter the challenges of dealing with unresolved attachment issues or early traumatic experiences. New Families, Old Scripts is an accessible introduction to understanding these challenges and helping children and their families...

The Night Book

by Charlotte Grimshaw
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010

Shortlisted for the 2011 NZ Post Book Awards this is an unflinching novel on contemporary NZ society.'It was this contemplation of the future that made Roza frightened, and that caused her to turn her mind, as she did now, harried and nervous, to the past. And then there was the question of Simon...

Foster Care

How to Fix This Corrupted System

by Janet Solander
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2013

In Foster Care: How to Fix This Corrupted System, author Janet Solander presents stories of how Child Protective Services (CPS), Department of Family Services (DFS), and the foster system have failed the very children they are mandated to protect and hold safe. Solander shares heartbreaking incidents...

Bringing Lucy Home

A Story of Hope, Heartache, and Happiness

by Jennifer Phillips
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2015

An orphan, abandoned and alone. A family, comfortable and secure. A shaky step of faith. An unprecedented complication. A heartbreaking separation. An unyielding quest. A love story that is every Christian's story. Bringing Lucy Home shares the compelling drama of one family's relentless pursuit to...

The truth will find you

by Rose Ellen Bennett
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2016

The true story of how my beutiful little boy was stolen from me by corrupt UK social sevicesand placed for cash with the man who sexually abused e as a child, myFather!

Life's Lessons from a Father to His Daughter

by Bob Grossmann, Maya Grossmann
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2003

Life's Lessons from a Father to his Daughter uses twenty-four stories, pictures and artwork to help teach our children life's lessons with the aim of helping our children learn to make good decision-making skills. Decision-making skills are often not well taught or integrated into a strong sense of...

Another Mother's Love

by Karen Scott
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2014

In 2011 Karen Scott and Mark Finlay and their six children opened their home and hearts to a sad, skinny five-year-old boy who was placed with them by New Zealand's Child, Youth and Family services. James arrived with nothing other than the clothes he was wearing, supposedly for just a short-term...

The Waiting Child

How the Faith and Love of One Orphan Saved the Life of Another

by Cindy Champnella
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2013

The inspiring true story of a four-year-old Chinese orphan who convinces her adoptive American family to return to China to rescue the little boy she couldn't forget Adopted by an American family at age four, Jaclyn traveled to her new home with a great burden. Her new family had to leave behind...

Helping Vulnerable Children and Adolescents to Stay Safe

Creative Ideas and Activities for Building Protective Behaviours

by Katie Wrench
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2016

Helping vulnerable children and young people to build protective behaviours is the key to keeping them safe. Full of creative ideas and activities, this guide provides the tools to help children develop these key skills. Topics include work around: building resilience and problem solving skills;...

Classroom Tales

Using Storytelling to Build Emotional, Social and Academic Skills across the Primary Curriculum

by Jennifer Eades
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2005

Stories and storytelling help children to develop emotional literacy, make sense of their world and appreciate different points of view. Fox Eades shows how storytelling is a crucial element of children's education that can enrich the school curriculum and encourage social and thinking skills. The...

Lines in the Sand

The Story Of A Family Secret Carefully Guarded for Over Twenty Years.

by Ron Parvu
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017

When a newborn is adopted into a loving family, her 'new' cousins are sworn to secrecy about her real identity. Upon reaching adulthood a critical health issue blows the lid off the carefully guarded family secret. She soon discovers who she is, and who her 'real' cousins are. But first, she has to decide if she wants to cross that line in the sand.

I Seek Him

by Joyce McDonald Hoskins
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2017

Kathleen, a young Christian woman, adopted at birth, seeks to find her biological mother. Just out of grad school, with a broken engagement behind her, her quest takes her from Atlanta to the high country of North Carolina. Always strong in her faith she will be tested by many unsuspected...