Title:
To the end of June : the intimate life of American foster care / Cris Beam.
ISBN:
9780151014125
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013.
Physical Description:
xvii, 313 pages ; 24 cm
Contents:
Preface -- Catch -- King Solomon's baby -- Eye of the beholder -- Timing is anything -- Drugs in the system -- Catch as catch can -- Hold -- Surge control -- Chutes and ladders and chutes -- Arrested in development -- Taking agency -- Homespun -- Release -- Fantasy islands -- There's something about Mary -- Experiment -- Touching the elephant -- Last call -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Acknowledgments.
Summary:
An intimate, authoritative look at the foster care system that examines why it is failing the kids it is supposed to protect and what can be done to change it.
Subject Term:
OCLC Number:
ocn666239949
Availability:
Eagan - Wescott~1
