num_pages: 304
description: Burch was left at an orphanage and never stayed at any one foster home long enough to make any friends. This is the story of how he grew up and gained the courage to reach out for love.
language: English
title: They Cage the Animals at Night: The True Story of an Abandoned Child's Struggle for Emotional Survival
titlecomplete: They Cage the Animals at Night: The True Story of an Abandoned Child's Struggle for Emotional Survival
genres: Read For School, Fostering, Biography, Abuse, School, Psychology, Autobiography, Nonfiction, Memoir, Biography Memoir
ratings_count: 9484
awards: awardedAt: 820483200000
name: Eliot Rosewater Indiana High School Book Award
publisher: Berkley