Foster care odyssey
Subtitle: a black girl's story
By: Theresa Cameron
Series: Townsend library; Townsend Library
Publisher: Townsend Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: West Berlin, NJ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 381
ISBN-13: 9781591940982
Subjects: Foster children; Biography; African American women; Foster home care
Description: Abandoned by her teenage mother in 1954 to a overwhelmingly white charity organization so begins Theresa's life as a 'ward of the state' of New York. She shares the heartbreaking struggle to survive in a foster care system where children's welfare often seemed the lowest priority.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: In the Beginning --; title: On the Road: The First Foster Home I Remember --; title: Life with the Chester Family Goes On --; title: The Sea Widens: My New Life --; title: Riding the Waves --; title: Growing up with the Woodsons --; title: Getting By However I Could --; title: The End of the Line --; title: Bouncing Around as an Adolescent --; title: Life Among the Nuns --; title: Coming of Age in the Group Home --; title: Farewell to Flourette Hall --; title: Around and Around I Went --; title: Staying Afloat --; title: Just Another Stop Along the Way --; title: Alone in California --; title: Back in New York --; title: It Finally Came to an End.