When A Child Becomes the Four Year Old Parent...Trouble Don't Last Always

by Shane Salter

His mother abandoned him. His drug-dealing dad landed him in the middle of a gunfight. After entering the foster care system, he fell through the cracks. He was rejected by everyone, known by no one Born to a teenage mother whose hopes and dreams for her son were shattered by her own drug addiction, author Shane Salter was thrust into parenting his younger brother at the tender age of four. His first look at the world was through a broken windowpane into an alley leading nowhere. When his mother walked out and left him, he kept it together and took care of his brother until they found foster care, a system as threatening to a child as any dark alley in New York, Miami, Chicago, Detroit, or Los Angeles.

217 pages, Paperback

Published December 1, 2006

Reviews

[AlexisWockeee · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book was very heartbreaking but relieving at the same time. This boy has gone through a lot and it just shows you that it's never impossible to overcome adversity and find how to love even when it isn't given. Loved it!