num_pages: 400
description: Why does an infant die of malnutrition? Why does an eight-year-old hold a knife to his brother's throat? Or a mother push her cherished daughter twenty-three floors to her death? Marc Parent, a city caseworker, searched the streets--and his heart--for the answers, and shares them in this powerful, vivid, beautifully written book.WITH A NEW AFTERWORD BY THE AUTHOR
language: English
title: Turning Stones: My Days and Nights with Children at Risk
titlecomplete: Turning Stones: My Days and Nights with Children at Risk
genres: Psychology, Fostering, Memoir, Biography, Education, Adoption, Social Work, Mental Health, Nonfiction, Family
ratings_count: 842
publisher: Ballantine Books