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1) Ellen Foster
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Having suffered abuse and misfortune for much of her life, a young child searches for a better life and finally gets a break in the home of a loving woman with several foster children.
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Pete and Ellie choose to start a family, they stumble headfirst into the world of foster care adoption. After they learn their perfect foster child comes with two other siblings, Pete and Ellie find themselves speeding from zero to three kids overnight and must hilariously learn the ropes of instant parenthood if they hope to become a real family.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c1994
Language
English
Description
The author writes about raising children late in life. "Liz Carpenter, a widow with grown children living . . . in Austin, Tex., agreed to her 79-year-old brother Tom's . . . deathbed request to rear his youngest children. It was 1991. . . . He had cared for the children, ages 14 and 11, and their 16-year-old sister since he was divorced by their mother. Now, with death requiring a shift of custody, the mother felt unequal to the task. . . . All three...