from debnance

It's sad. If only it wasn't. But foster care is very difficult, as you might expect. And difficulty often brings sadness. This is a story of stories, a book of tales of foster care. Many, many sad stories. Let's read these with the hope that someday the stories will be happier.

from Sullywriter

I expected this book to focus more on the experiences of children in the foster care system so that was a bit disappointing for me but Beam does offer a very revealing, insightful, and compassionate look at the considerable systemic problems of foster care and how the families and children try to...

from TFS93

I did enjoy being able to read about what happens in foster care and how it effects the children and the families. It did seem as though some of the foster parents were not doing their job, and honestly shouldn't have been in the position to take care of someone else's child. I did have a hard ti...