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  <read_at>Sat Dec 15 00:00:00 -0800 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I was deeply moved by 'Hope's Boy,' Andrew Bridge's haunting elegy of a childhood that seemed to be lost forever when Andrew, at age 7, became a ward of the State after being taken from the arms of his young mother on a street corner in North Hollywood. Andrew's unsparing chronicle of his experience...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/14055610">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Hope's Boy is amazing.  A friend of mine gave me an early publication copy that had been passed on to her.  She loved it.  I can only say the same. <br/><br/>The memoir describes a young boy and his relationship with his young, single mother.  With beautiful and delicately crafted words, Bridge de...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9369696">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;Some families cannot be saved and their children cannot be return.  Yet, even then, their love for each other must be worth something.&quot;<br/>-- Andrew Bridge, Hope's Boy<br/><br/>This is a brave memoir about our nation's horribly broken foster care system, that all too often fails our c...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/14033455">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a must read for anyone interested in foster care, or the child welfare system (or lack thereof) in the U.S.  There are many books out there that detail the horrors and egregious acts that children have faced while supposedly being protected in state custody.  However, Andrew Bridge does a gr...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/14456614">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I was delighted to read an Advanced Reading Copy of Hope’s Boy.  Connections with others, and the need for them, are at our core.  They are powerful and enduring, as is the sense of loss when they are broken.  In Bridge’s case, social workers and the foster care system broke his physical connect...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/14083164">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is an incredible book.  Andrew is a former foster youth who tells the story of his childhood through this amazing book - sad yet inspiring, definitely recommended for anyone who loves or works with kids.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[About a boy in the foster care system that beats the odds and becomes a lawyer.  Sad and moving]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Like Andrew Bridge, I am an attorney.  I, too, have represented many children who were removed from their parents because they needed protection or help at a particular time, only to suffer years of additional trauma and loss at the hands of the very systems and people that were supposed to be helpi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/14100758">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[As a mother and a retired teacher, &quot;Hope's Boy&quot; was an emotional experience for me. It reminded me that children choose what is important to them. Mr. Bridge's memoir convinced me that a child brings with them his/her own needs that a bed in a stranger's house leave unsatisfied. I think th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/14727470">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[not to be corny but this book was so damn moving.  i have always had a soft spot for kids in foster care but this one exposes the life they lead better than anything i have seen.  this guy is what i call a hero.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Simply written, but a touching memoir. The author spent ten years in the Los Angeles county foster system, and this memoir chronicles his experience. Very clean--totally appropriate for the kids. I'm probably going to use it with my ADVZ next year.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I really liked this book. I read the review in People and when I had some extra cash to spend on books I bought it. It is about a boy that spends most of his life in foster care, but ends up making it into Harvard Law and coming out on top, regardless of his childhood. I thought the writing was exce...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16619249">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The foster care/social system in LA county (at least it was 20 years ago) sounds like a piece of shit operation. I don't understand how Andrew Bridge is who he is today, but I was rooting for him all the way through the book. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Gripping non-fiction book about a boy with a highly disfunctional mother who ends up in the foster care system. He succeeds despite the odds to become a Harvard Grad and Fulbright scholar - inspirational.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This man went through so much while in foster care but is now a child advocate and a lawyer. It only proves that where there's a will there's a way.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A memoir of a boy raised in foster care.  Excellent story, but too descriptive.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I thought this was a beautifully written, powerful book. It was an indictment of the foster care system, of course. I was touched by his assertion that love should be honored and preserved, even when the people who are loving us are also damaging us. And I wondered at this boy's survival. How did he...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18651267">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was an interesting true story of a boy who grew up as a foster child in CA.  I was happy with the way it ended, and it was nice to hear that Andrew could be as insightful about his past as he is considering the lack of family support he had.  It's amazing that he is as successful and happy as h...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18389065">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Good book about one persons experience growing up in foster care.  I was intrigued how he managed to live in one foster home for over 10 years, but the family either didn't really care for him, or had a really hard time showing it.  ]]></body>
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