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Things to do over summer vacation: 1. Run the 5k-along the St. Croix River-to the water park. 2. Attend the archeological dig at the cliffs above the Minnesota River. 3. Compete in the milk carton boat races during the summer festival. 4. Take scuba lessons and go canoeing during the swim team camping trip. 5. Prevent my life from falling to pieces? What? Meet Hayden Chandler, a fifteen-year-old high school student from the Twin Cities, whose only worry over summer vacation was to meet the boyfriend of her dreams. However, her divorced parents' ongoing battle stood in her way and blocked out the carefree relaxing days she'd expected. Instead, Hayden and her three younger siblings hid from their father: an alcoholic with homicidal tendencies and a penchant for trouble. They escaped his grasp by hiding out in the casino where their mother worked. This is their story
Incubator Views is an exciting, moving account in which the author relays a compelling narrative from four different viewpoints-the diametrically opposing perspectives of a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit nurse, the teen mother, her younger brother, and the preemie herself. Incubator Views reveals the preemie's struggle to survive against confounding odds in a harrowing and tragic family life and the crucial transfer to the foster care system. This story is an utterly engaging, vivid, often painful look at the struggle of distinctly different members of a family and those around them at a critical juncture in all of their lives. Liquid warmth and darkness: it surrounded me in a shroud of comfor...
Amanda is thrust into the past by a summons to a small town courthouse to testify against her stepfather. Memories unfold of her childhood on an Indian reservation and a relationship with her emotionally distant mother, Genevieve. On that day Uncle Noah reached over, held my hand tightly and whispered, "Ista kota [Grey Eyes] I had a vision that you'll see the world through different eyes than all our ancestors. Instead you'll go down a different path in life and see the world through your birth father's eyes--a white man's eyes." Tears streamed down his face that day as he continued, "A better life will come at a price; but in the end you'll be stronger for having gone through it." Amanda's ...
This guide provides parens with an oppotunity to chronicle their own personal history and past experiences as well as the history and experiences of their child's life in a direct, loving, and supportive way. Don't wait - let Parent To Child : The Guide assist you in writing the legacy you want and need to leave for your chldren ... just in case.
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