Download or read book The Garbage Bag Girl written by Carol Knuth and published by . This book was released on 2012-09-01 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thrown into a world where her wits must be sharp if she is to survive, fourteen-year-old Emma Snow has left everything familiar behind. Eight months earlier, she had lived in a lazy small Midwestern town, where summer days consisted of chasing butterflies and watching oak leaves lift in the breeze. Her world changed after the dark family secret was exposed. Emma, relatively new to the life of a foster kid, is broken in by her new foster brother and her foster mother's boyfriend. She cannot escape her nightmares when asleep, and wakes in the middle of the night to find her nightmare has become a reality once again. Shattered, she finds her dream of belonging, of being like other girls just that, a dream. She begins to wonder if pain at the hands of boys and men will ever end. Will she ever be safe? Will she ever be wanted-loved? The Garbage Bag Girl is a story of hope, endurance, and strength, of finding ones place in the world. It is about the resiliency of the human spirit that carries us through-taking over when we would give up. It is a story of love lost, and of love that finds us when most needed-arriving in the most unexpected places and forms.
Download or read book Garbage Bag Girl written by Celeste Edmunds and published by . This book was released on 2023-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book is an honest and vulnerable first-person account of Celeste Edmunds a young woman who was raised by drug addict parents and, at a young age, learned to survive and protect her siblings among rapists and drug dealers. Eventually the state separated the family and Celeste was adopted, alone, into a dysfunctional, fractured home where she was treated, by a sadistic and manipulating mother, as an unwanted outsider. Contemplating taking her abuser's life, she eventually ran away, finding shelter wherever she could, until a compassionate woman stepped in to give her a home and love. Ultimately, Garbage Bag Girl, is an unforgettable story of hope." --
Download or read book Trash written by Britney Fuller and published by Random House. This book was released on 2014-10-09 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘To start: it was just me and my mom. I am an only child, and she is a single parent. My mother is a trash hoarder. Ever since I can remember the house was always messy and stunk. At around age 9ish I noticed that something was wrong. I started throwing bags of trash away every day, just to have my mom freak out when she got home. We didn’t eat at home anymore because the fridge was disgusting, and she used the sink as a trash can, so it got clogged. We always ate out, we never had a home-cooked meal, and I’ve never had a family dinner at a dinner table. I had a stool in the corner of the living room. That is what I sat on, and that alone. I kept that corner as clean as I could. Made sure there was foot space, and that there wasn’t dust on the walls. That was my corner, my space. It never seemed to matter though, eventually that spot would get overrun with trash too...’ Trash is Britney Fuller's shocking account of growing up in the house of a hoarder.
Download or read book Garbage Bag Suitcase written by Shenandoah Chefalo and published by . This book was released on 2016-02-02 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Garbage Bag Suitcase is the true story of Shenandoah Chefalo's wholly dysfunctional journey through a childhood with neglectful, drug-and alcohol addicted parents. She endured numerous moves in the middle of the night with just minutes to pack, multiple changes in schools, hunger, cruelty, and loneliness. Finally at the age of 13, Shen had had enough. After being abandoned by her mother for months at her grandmother's retirement community, she asked to be put into foster care. Surely she would fare better at a stable home than living with her mother? It turns out that it was not the storybook ending she had hoped for. With foster parents more interested in the income received by housing a foster child, Shen was once again neglected emotionally. The money she earned working at the local grocery store was taken by her foster parents to "cover her expenses." When a car accident lands her in the hospital with grave injuries and no one came to visit her during her three-week stay, she realizes she is truly all alone in the world. Overcoming her many adversities, Shen became part of the 3% of all foster care children who get into college, and the 1% who graduate. She became a successful businesswoman, got married, and had a daughter. Despite her numerous achievements in life though, she still suffers from the long-term effects of neglect, and the coping skills that she adapted in her childhood are not always productive in her adult life. Garbage Bag Suitcase is not only the inspiring and hair-raising story of one woman's journey to over- come her desolate childhood, but it also presents grass-root solutions on how to revamp the broken foster care system.
Download or read book The House on Third Street written by Carol Knuth and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-21 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Almost beaten to death by her father at the age of three marks the start of a nightmarish childhood. Fro ten long years, Emma and her two sisters are beaten, sexually assaulted, and raped by their father. The neighbors look askance at the house on Third Street, but do nothing as three children suffer. When a crisis center counselor discovers the children's plight, relief may be finally in sight. All Emma wants is a chance to be normal - to live in a home where she doesn't have to fear for her safety. It's a simple, but seemingly imposssible, goal. The prequel to The Garbage Bag Girl, The House on Third Street takes an unflinching look at the horrors of physical and sexual abuse, while celebrating the resilience and adaptability of the human spirit.
Download or read book The Garbage Bag Kids written by Virginia Jeffers and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2015-01-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Though many criticize the foster care system, it is a necessity for over 400,000 children in the U.S. who have been neglected, abused and abandoned. It is not perfect, but it is the best we have. This is the true story of one such foster family, the Jeffers, who over the past 30 years have followed their 'calling' to provide a safe, secure, and loving home to children who, through no fault of their own, have become a part of the foster care system."--Back cover.
Download or read book My Son Lives in a Tree written by Richard Paul Evans and published by . This book was released on 2021-10-19 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a father takes his family to the zoo, the zookeeper mistakes his son for an escaped monkey and locks him up. The father tries to free his son but without success.
Download or read book Finding Noel written by Richard Paul Evans and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2006-10-03 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A heartwarming and inspirational Christmas novel in the tradition of The Christmas Box, Grace, The Gift, and The Christmas List. The New York Times bestselling author of The Christmas Box and The Walk series returns with a holiday novel of hope, love, and redemption. A young woman, who has been adopted as a child by a loving family, has only a Christmas ornament inscribed with the word “Noel” as a keepsake of her birth family, about whom she remembers nothing. When long hidden memories resurface, she begins an emotionally challenging personal journey as she searches for her biological sister and clues about her mysterious past...
Download or read book Young House Love written by Sherry Petersik and published by Artisan. This book was released on 2015-07-14 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This New York Times bestselling book is filled with hundreds of fun, deceptively simple, budget-friendly ideas for sprucing up your home. With two home renovations under their (tool) belts and millions of hits per month on their blog YoungHouseLove.com, Sherry and John Petersik are home-improvement enthusiasts primed to pass on a slew of projects, tricks, and techniques to do-it-yourselfers of all levels. Packed with 243 tips and ideas—both classic and unexpected—and more than 400 photographs and illustrations, this is a book that readers will return to again and again for the creative projects and easy-to-follow instructions in the relatable voice the Petersiks are known for. Learn to trick out a thrift-store mirror, spice up plain old roller shades, "hack" your Ikea table to create three distinct looks, and so much more.
Download or read book A Semester in the Life of a Garbage Bag written by Gordon Korman and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2013-07-30 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When luckless Raymond Jardine becomes Sean Delancey's eleventh-grade-English project partner, he persuades Sean's grandfather to pose as a long-deceased, obscure Canadian poet, in an effort to pass the course and win a vacation to a luxurious Greek island.
Download or read book Plastic Free written by Beth Terry and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-04-21 with total page 668 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Guides readers toward the road less consumptive, offering practical advice and moral support while making a convincing case that individual actions . . . do matter.” —Elizabeth Royte, author, Garbage Land and Bottlemania Like many people, Beth Terry didn’t think an individual could have much impact on the environment. But while laid up after surgery, she read an article about the staggering amount of plastic polluting the oceans, and decided then and there to kick her plastic habit. In Plastic-Free, she shows you how you can too, providing personal anecdotes, stats about the environmental and health problems related to plastic, and individual solutions and tips on how to limit your plastic footprint. Presenting both beginner and advanced steps, Terry includes handy checklists and tables for easy reference, ways to get involved in larger community actions, and profiles of individuals—Plastic-Free Heroes—who have gone beyond personal solutions to create change on a larger scale. Fully updated for the paperback edition, Plastic-Free also includes sections on letting go of eco-guilt, strategies for coping with overwhelming problems, and ways to relate to other people who aren’t as far along on the plastic-free path. Both a practical guide and the story of a personal journey from helplessness to empowerment, Plastic-Free is a must-read for those concerned about the ongoing health and happiness of themselves, their children, and the planet.
Download or read book One Plastic Bag written by Miranda Paul and published by Millbrook Press. This book was released on 2015-02-01 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Njau, Gambia, discarded plastic bags littered the roads. Water pooled in them, bringing mosquitoes and disease. But Isatou Ceesay found a way to recycle the bags and transform her community. An inspirational true story.
Download or read book The Last Missing Girl written by Jensen Rose Long and published by Jensen Rose Long. This book was released on 2023-11-14 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In St. Henderson, a picturesque town on the Oregon coast, girls disappear without a trace. Among them is seventeen-year-old- Zelda Schulz’s sister, Jaybird. With no bodies and little evidence, the close-knit community dismisses the cases as runaways. Girls gone wild, lost, but not stolen. And life carries on as normal. But for Zelda, nothing will ever be the same again. When a teenage girl is found murdered on the beach during spring break, clutching Jaybird’s necklace in her hands, Zelda hopes for a chance to find out the truth. She uncovers her murder board and focuses on her main suspect, the English teacher who seems a little bit too friendly. The only problem is, she keeps coming up empty and no one in town seems to know anything. Zelda wonders who she can trust, when an anonymous envelope is delivered to Zelda’s ex-beau promising the truth about her sister’s disappearance in exchange for a favor. If she succeeds, she’ll find answers - she may even catch Jaybird’s killer. If she fails, the killer promises more missing girls will become dead bodies, and the truth about Jaybird will die with them.
Download or read book The Lost Girl written by Dotti Enderle and published by Llewellyn Worldwide. This book was released on 2002 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twelve-year-old Juniper and her friends in the Fortune Tellers' Club use their psychic skills to try to find a missing child.
Download or read book The Girls 2 written by Kenni York and published by Urban Renaissance. This book was released on 2015-11-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some secrets will kill you. No one knows that better than Jada, Alex, Miranda and Candace, who've previously lost one of their friends, Stephanie, following a heartbreaking betrayal. Now Stephanie's boyfriend, Corey, is hitting the streets of Atlanta with a vengeance in an effort to get the haters that took his girlfriend's life, all while trying to take back his title as the king of the hood. Stephanie may be dead now, but the secrets lingering between the rest of the crew seem to just keep piling up and coming to the forefront. What happens once the farce becomes too difficult to keep up? Whose secrets will be exposed, who will find themselves forced to make a deadly decision, and who will be the one to change everyone else's lives forever? Friendship isn't supposed to be this hard, but the moment that first betrayal occurs, no one's feelings are safe.
Download or read book Ruthless and Rotten written by Ms. Michel Moore and published by Urban Books. This book was released on 2014-11-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forced to flee Detroit, ruthless and rotten Kenya and her identical twin, London, have dodged the bullets of a vicious hired hit man and endured the pain of a brutal rape. Now, due to mistaken identity, the girls must deal with Storm's strange disappearance and his partner's heinous murder before it's too late and they're next. Once again the sisters' lives are turned upside down. This time, the consequences could land them both in jail—or dead and unclaimed in the county morgue. Ms. Michel Moore is back with another gripping installment of the dramatic Say U Promise series.
Download or read book Here Comes the Garbage Barge written by Jonah Winter and published by Schwartz & Wade. This book was released on 2010-02-09 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This New York Times Best Illustrated Book is a mostly true and completely stinky story that is sure to make you say, “Pee-yew!” Teaching environmental awareness has become a national priority, and this hilarious book (subtly) drives home the message that we can’t produce unlimited trash without consequences. Before everyone recycled . . . There was a town that had 3,168 tons of garbage and nowhere to put it. What did they do? Enter the Garbage Barge! Amazing art built out of junk, toys, and found objects by Red Nose Studio makes this the perfect book for Earth Day or any day, and photos on the back side of the jacket show how the art was created. Here Comes the Garbage Barge was a New York Times Best Illustrated book of 2010, a Huffington Post Best Picture Book of the Year, and a School Library Journal Best Book of the Year. The Washington Post said, “Cautionary? Yes. Hilarious? You betcha!” and the New York Times Book Review raved, “[A] glorious visual treat.”
