Three Little Words: A Memoir
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| Rating | : | 4.20 (515 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B0012Y1AJI |
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| Number of Pages | : | 582 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-07-15 |
| Language | : | English |
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Ashley Rhodes-Courter is a twenty-one-year-old college student who is a sought-after advocate for adoption. She is also a recipient of the 2007 BR!CK Award.. Rhodes-Courter was chosen as a first-team member of the USA Today All-USA College Academic Team for 2007. She has been featured in Teen People and Glamour, has appeared on the Today Show, and has been interviewed by Diane Sawyer and Rosie O'Donnell. She has d
"Great book!" according to Moats. When I first saw this book, I wasn't sure about it, but I eventually decided to read it after being told about it from a family member. This book seriously changed me! It taught me how much most people (like me) take for granted. There are some kids who are barely surviving; no education, nobody to care for them, starving, homeless; while most people who have life good (like me) don't think about the little stuff, like food for example: we throw away so muc. A Poignant Story of Abandonment, Abuse,Shattered Childhood,and Ultimately Triumph Asha Greye Ashley was a toddler when seized from her mother and stepfather during a police raid,entering the system in the state of Florida along with her infant half-brother. What followed was a decade long odessey that would see her passed around from place to place,from foster homes to relatives in her native South Carolina, ignored,neglected,and beaten. In her own words, "There are two days that compete for the worst of my life. The first is the day I was taken aw. "Must read if interested in foster care!" according to Kasey. This was an excellent book. We're considering fostering kids, so I've read a handful of books on the topic and, so far, this one I think has given the most accurate portrayal of the challenges of both the foster system and the kids who have to endure it plus a nice ending about advocacy and hope. The author gives a very real portrayal of her experiences in different families, including multiple foster families and her birth family, which helps you get a fee
Sunshine, you're my baby and I'm your only mother. You must mind the one taking care of you, but she's not your mama."" Ashley Rhodes-Courter spent nine years of her life in fourteen different foster homes, living by those words. As her mother spirals out of control, Ashley is left clinging to an unpredictable, dissolving relationship, all the while getting pulled deeper and deeper into the foster care system.
Grades 8-12. Nevertheless, she gives a voice to countless thousands of children who continue to be abused, abandoned, and ignored, and one hopes her book will make a positive difference in their lives. Given her experiences, one can understand why she is angry and often bitter, but the unrelieved stridency of her tone makes for sometimes difficult reading. From Booklist “I felt as worthless as the junk in my trash bag . once again, I was the one being tossed out and thrown away.” Taken from her mother when she was scarcely four years old, Rhodes-Courter spent the next nine years in foster care with “more than a dozen so-called mothers.” “Some were kind,” she acknowledges, “a few were quirky and one was as wicked as a fairy-tale witch.” She names names in this memoir, which is also a searing indictment of a