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The Heart Knows Something Different: Teenage Voices from the Foster Care System »

Authors: Youth Communication, Communication Youth Communication, Al Desetta
ISBN-13: 9780892552184, ISBN-10: 0892552182
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Persea Books
Date Published: October 1996
Edition: (Non-applicable)

A New York Public Library "Books for the Teen Age" selection.

Fiction Reprints

	Foreword
	Introduction
	Questions Without Answers	3
	Six Months on the Run from the BCW	9
	My Foster Mother is My Best Friend	25
	I Lost My Brother to Adoption	30
	She'll Always Be My Mother	34
	My Crew was My Family	39
	Short Takes: Remembering Family	49
	My Day in the Group Home	61
	Finding a Father in the System	64
	Sista on the Run (From the Past)	68
	Why I'm Better Off in Foster Care	73
	Can the Counselors Keep a Secret?	76
	Making a New Family	78
	Why Are You Doing This, Mr. Jones?	83
	How I Became a Stronger Mother	93
	Peer Pressure and Me	97
	Kicked to the Curb at Twenty-One	100
	My Group Home Scapegoat	105
	A Three-Point Shooter	107
	Short Takes: If I Ran Foster Care...	110
	How I Lived a Double Life	121
	Why No One Knows I'm a Foster Child	125
	Keeping It on the Down Low	128
	What They Say Behind Our Backs	131
	Kicked Out Because I Was Gay	135
	My Friend Marisol	139
	Is Stealing My Addiction?	143
	Phat Flows, Honeys, and the Booms	147
	I'm the Mommy Now	151
	Who's the Real "Problem Child"?	155
	Short Takes: Who Will I Become?	157
	From Fighter to Friend	167
	Staying with the Hurt	171
	My Family Secret	174
	Therapy Changed My Life	180
	How I Made Peace with the Past	185
	Facing the Problem	190
	A Loner in the Group Home	193
	I Won't Abuse My Kids	197
	Writing Taught Me About Myself	204
	A Vacation from Mr. Hope	206
	Glossary of Slang	215
	Resources	218
	Subject Guide	220
	Acknowledgments	227
	About Youth Communication	230
	About the Editor	232