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Foster care odyssey : a black girl's story Cover Image Book

Foster care odyssey : a black girl's story / Theresa Cameron.

Cameron, Theresa. (Author).

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  • ISBN: 1578064201
  • Physical Description: xii, 255 pages ; 24 cm
  • Publisher: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2002]

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Formatted Contents Note:
1. In the Beginning 5 -- 2. On the Road: The First Foster Home I Remember 8 -- 3. Life with the Chester Family Goes On 22 -- 4. Sea Widens: My New Life 39 -- 5. Riding the Waves 50 -- 6. Growing up with the Woodsons 67 -- 7. Getting By However I Could 81 -- 8. End of the Line 104 -- 9. Bouncing Around as an Adolescent 129 -- 10. Life Among the Nuns 141 -- 11. Coming of Age in the Group Home 150 -- 12. Farewell to Flourette Hall 166 -- 13. Around and Around I Went 178 -- 14. Staying Afloat 195 -- 15. Just Another Stop Along the Way 201 -- 16. Alone in California 212 -- 17. Back in New York 224 -- 18. It Finally Came to an End 244.

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Subject: African American women > New York (State) > Biography.
Foster children > New York (State) > Biography.
Foster home care > New York (State)
Genre: Biographies.

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