A Place Called Home: A Memoir

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It is inconceivable to me how grown adults could treat a child so poorly yet it’s clear that America has so far to go in this regard. The faith aspect of it was wonderful and I really appreciated the prayers and scripture used throughout. Ambroz knows that there are people targeting books like his in the LGBTQ book bans sweeping the nation. I think the banning of books speaks to the last gasp of these people to squelch what is inevitably a rise in equality, that we still have to fight for,” he states.

This book is about a girl named christine who's grandfather just passed away, and she gets a letter from someone telling her she is in danger and she needs to leave. Children in poverty are given kernels of assistance but are rarely rescued from their circumstances… America watches its children suffer in poverty, shaking our heads in sadness, and driving onward thinking it’s someone else’s job to help those poor folk. I appreciated how the author created a main character who doubted her femininity as a result of her height. Mostly because I waited and waited for something big to happen that was building from the beginning. The way that faith and prayer and scripture reading and church are so entwined in this book is just LOVELY, rarely have I seen Christianity so very *important* to the characters and stories.

When the social workers come to the apartment he’s amazed that they question him about his mother in front of her. He is a foster dad, a member of the Television Academy, a Board Member of Equality California, and now lives in Los Angeles.

The wonderfully nostalgic and heartwarming new novel from the Sunday Times Top Ten bestselling author of The Beggar Maid. If this book was a scathing critique of the supports for children and families in need and the foster care system many find themselves in, without offering prescriptions for change, that would be enough.

Leading man, Luke Cameron seemed well thought out and decidedly appealing as did all the Cameron's in this novel. A] captivating debut…Galvanizing and compassionate, this personal account of survival should be required reading. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. Meanwhile evacuee Ruby Clark has much to contend with when her estranged mother turns up, having completed a long prison sentence.