| Edition |
Unabridged. |
| Description |
1 online resource (1 audio file (10hr., 30 min.)) : digital. |
| Performer |
Read by David Drummond. |
| Summary |
When Andrew Bridge was seven years old, he and his mother-a mentally unstable woman who loved her child more than she could care for him-slid deeper and deeper into poverty, until they were reduced to scavenging for food in trash bins. Welfare officials did little more than threaten to take Andrew away, until a social worker arrived with a police escort and did just that while his mother screamed on the sidewalk. And so began Andrew's descent into the foster care system-"care" being a terrible irony, as he received almost none for the next eleven years.Academic achievement was Andrew's ticket out of hell-a scholarship to Wesleyan University led to Harvard Law School and a Fulbright Scholarship. Now an accomplished adult, he has dedicated his life to working on behalf of the frightened children still lost in the system. Hope's Boy is his story, a story of endurance and the power of love and, most of all, of hope. |
| Access |
Digital content provided by hoopla. |
| System Details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Subject |
Foster children -- California -- Biography.
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Foster home care -- California.
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Foster parents -- California.
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| Added Author |
Drummond, David.
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hoopla digital.
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| ISBN |
9781400126064 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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1400126061 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
| Music No. |
MWT10755118 |
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