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1) Abby's story
Author
Series
Thrown away children volume 2
Language
English
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Foster mother Louise Allen tells the story of the six-year-old child brought to her home with symptoms of fetal alcohol syndrome. How can that young girl unleash such a whirlwind of emotional and physical devastation? Louise is about to find out, and to unwittingly discover the darkness of incest, rejection and abuse in Abby's past.-- From statement at Amazon.com.
2) Sky's story
Author
Series
Thrown away children volume 5
Language
English
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Description
"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...
Author
Series
Thrown away children volume 6
Language
English
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"Louise has trouble on her hands from the moment that five-year-old Billy Blackthorn enters her home. He is one of more than 20 children taken into care from a single family, and erupts into her household with a volatility that alarms even this seasoned foster carer. His behaviour is erratic and disturbing, and leads Louise to question the origins of this child's deep trauma. It is only as Billy's harrowing past is revealed that she begins to grasp...
4) Eden's story
Author
Series
Thrown away children volume 3
Language
English
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Description
Ashley is a young single mum raising her daughter, Eden, and working hard to do the very best job she can - until one night she can't find a babysitter and makes the decision to leave Eden home alone for a couple of hours, asleep inside a wardrobe. It is an action that begins a terrible downward spiral for both of them. When Eden arrives at experienced foster carer Louise Allen's home, she has entered the care system because her mother is in prison....
Author
Series
Thrown away children volume 1
Language
English
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Description
"Stella is just like a tiny bird. This is my first impression of her. A quiet little sparrow of a girl." In her brand new series 'Thrown Away Children', Louise Allen shares the harrowing stories she is exposed to as a foster mother. The first in the series, Stella's Story, tells the astonishing true story of a young girl scarred by an abusive past. Named after the lager that christened her at birth, Stella's life is characterised instability and neglect....
Author
Series
Thrown away children volume 4
Language
English
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"Curled up in the dog basket amidst the mud and faecal matter that caked the kitchen floor, was not another farm pet. It was a human child, perhaps four or five years of age, sleeping. Officers from the RSPCA investigated reports of animal cruelty and neglect on a farm, only to discover a young boy curled up asleep in a dog bed, amidst filth and squalor. He has severe physical and cognitive impairments, and no one outside the family seems to know...
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