Helpful Score: 4
awesome. moving. powerful. sad.
this book is all of these things and more.
a very good book- i hope you devour it like i did.
while this book can be very sad i have to marvel at how this man turned the tragedy of this childhood into his mission- it just goes to show that the human spirit is strong
this book is all of these things and more.
a very good book- i hope you devour it like i did.
while this book can be very sad i have to marvel at how this man turned the tragedy of this childhood into his mission- it just goes to show that the human spirit is strong
Helpful Score: 1
Andrew Bridge wound up in the foster care system in California after his unstable mother was unable to care for him, and writes about his experiences. After reading his story, I find it amazing that he was able to rise above the miserable life he led and go on to Harvard Law school. His description of his stifling life at the hands of uncaring people is sad and yet uplifting, as he has made it his life's work to improve foster care for the children who are in the system now. I found this a thought - provoking book, and I recommend it
The book is interesting reading but not entirely true. I lived in the same house as Andrew and I can tell you he has exaggerated a LOT and tends to be mean spirited in many descriptions.
There are problems in the foster care system but there are also many loving and generous people doing their best to help children that are in some very heart-breaking situations like Andrew and his mentally-ill mother.
There are problems in the foster care system but there are also many loving and generous people doing their best to help children that are in some very heart-breaking situations like Andrew and his mentally-ill mother.
This book i couldnt seem to put down.
It was good and lets you see life in fostercare through the eyes of the child.
It was good and lets you see life in fostercare through the eyes of the child.
A great memoir about about a boy the his mom who ended up in a psychiatric hospital. Andrew then went into foster care. A very moving book.
A really heartfelt story about foster children and how they are treated. Also of the hopes and memories of a little boy who believes his mother is going to come get him. A true story and very thought-provoking.
Andrew loves his mother, although she was really unable to care for him past the age of seven. She hears voices and goes a little crazy sometimes. But, she always told him that she would be there for him.
Andrew is placed into a foster home (really a corrections facility that needed a use by the state), and is fostered out to the Leonard family. Mrs. Leonard lived through the camps in Germany and is a very uptight individual with many strange rules.
Andrew is always hoping that his mother will come and get him, but he grows up and remains with the Leonard family, while other foster children come and go. Andrew learns to stay to himself and always hope that Mom will come get him.
The beginning of this book really pulled at my heart, as Andrew is a grown man working to rectify the foster care system in California. He goes into a room in the basement of the facility where he started and there is a young boy, about 11, named Jeffrey, who is on a mattress with one blanket and an ever-beaming light. He is huddled into a ball and barely speaking to anyone.
Andrew grows in his foster home and becomes an attorney. His constant need to be with his mom is ever prevalent in the book. I hope that Andrew Bridge can make a difference in the lives of children who may not necessarily have to be placed in foster care and really should be with their parents. Let's hope his voice lends some weight to the problem.
The book was written well and kept me compelled. Just such a heart-break that there are so many children who are separated from their parents when they really don't need to be.
Andrew is placed into a foster home (really a corrections facility that needed a use by the state), and is fostered out to the Leonard family. Mrs. Leonard lived through the camps in Germany and is a very uptight individual with many strange rules.
Andrew is always hoping that his mother will come and get him, but he grows up and remains with the Leonard family, while other foster children come and go. Andrew learns to stay to himself and always hope that Mom will come get him.
The beginning of this book really pulled at my heart, as Andrew is a grown man working to rectify the foster care system in California. He goes into a room in the basement of the facility where he started and there is a young boy, about 11, named Jeffrey, who is on a mattress with one blanket and an ever-beaming light. He is huddled into a ball and barely speaking to anyone.
Andrew grows in his foster home and becomes an attorney. His constant need to be with his mom is ever prevalent in the book. I hope that Andrew Bridge can make a difference in the lives of children who may not necessarily have to be placed in foster care and really should be with their parents. Let's hope his voice lends some weight to the problem.
The book was written well and kept me compelled. Just such a heart-break that there are so many children who are separated from their parents when they really don't need to be.
