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    <body><![CDATA[I picked this book up at the library because I was looking for books about foster care.  This book was excellent and certainly does not need to be read just because of interest in foster care.  It is a great story of hope and love of a little girl who certainly got hurt early on in life.  ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I almost wish I hadn't read this right on the heels of her other book, because they were quite similar.  I enjoyed them both anyway - really this just seemed like a continuation of Another Place at the Table, only more focused on a single child's effect on the family.  <br/><br/>The experiences of c...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/28733237">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Memoir of a foster family. This book will make you want to adopt!]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is a really fast read that delves into the reality of foster care. The author affirmed many of the fears that I have had in the process of becoming a foster parent while at the same time shining a bright light on the silver lining.  I ultimately felt more resolute about doing this work aft...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/28894990">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[One Small Boat: The Story of a Little Girl, Lost Then Found]]>
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    <![CDATA[This story of one little girl's journey through our foster-care system forms an intimate portrait of foster care in America and the children whose lives are forever shaped by it.  <br/><br/>  Augusten Burroughs called Kathy Harrison's memoir <em>Another Place at the Table</em> a &quot;riveting and profoundly moving story of a hero, disguised as an everyday woman.&quot; In <em>One Small Boat</em>, Harrison tells the story of one little girl who arrived on her doorstep, and describes how caring for this child was an experience that challenged everything she thought she knew about foster-care parenting and the needs of the children she shelters.  <br/><br/>  Daisy was five when she arrived in Harrison's bustling home. Mother of three children by birth and three by adoption, and with a handful of foster kids always coming and going, Harrison had ten children under her roof at any given time. But Daisy was in many ways unique. Daisy's birth mother wasn't poor, uneducated, or drug addicted. She simply couldn't bring herself to take care of her little girl, and the effects on the child were heartrending. Daisy was unwilling to eat-even frightened of it-and seemed to have a severe speech impediment. After two weeks in Kathy's loving home, however, Daisy began to thrive. What had happened to her? And how can a foster-care parent give back all that has been taken from a child like Daisy-knowing that she might leave one day very soon? Harrison had seen many children pass through her doors, but this one touched her in a way she didn't immediately understand.  <br/><br/>  <em>One Small Boat</em> will be of deep interest to anyone who has nurtured and cared for a child or anyone interested in the intricate web that is our social welfare system.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[It's about a woman who fosters the hardest to place little girls- the ones that other foster parents won't or can't handle. Fast read, depressing yet somewhat hopeful. Sort of made me feel like a crappy Mom for complaining about my 3 year old, this women deals with really abused children and doesn't...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/17560227">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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