This book is well worth the read. It is an inspirational real life story of Bill Bair, a charismatic Christian who ends up opening up a foundation to help troubled teens...basically, acting as a conduit to what he called "Love homes", putting the teens in really good foster homes.
It was written in the 70's so some of the what would be frowned upon today was not too frowned up then...in a word, he does use corporal punishment on a few of the kids. Nowadays, he would have been arrested but, back then, no one had a real problem with that, as long as it wasn't really abusive.