Book : Turning Stones My Days And Nights With Children At...

-Titulo Original : Turning Stones My Days And Nights With Children At Risk A Caseworkers Story

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Ballantine Books

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About the Author Marc Parent is the author of Turning Stones: My Days and Nights with Children at Risk, a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize as well as a New Visions nominee and a NEBA Honorary Selection, and Believing It All: What My Children Taught Me About Trout Fishing, Jelly Toast, and Life. He has written for The New York Times and USA Today, among other publications. Why does an infant die of malnutrition? Why does an eight-year-old hold a knife to his brothers throat? Or a mother push her cherished daughter twenty-three floors to her death? Marc Parent, a city caseworker, searched the streets--and his heart--for the answers, and shares them in this powerful, vivid, beautifully written book.WITH A NEW AFTERWORD BY THE AUTHOR From the Inside Flap Why does an infant die of malnutrition? Why does an eight-year-old hold a knife to his brothers throat? Or a mother push her cherished daughter twenty-three floors to her death? Marc Parent, a city caseworker, searched the streets--and his heart--for the answers, and shares them in this powerful, vivid, beautifully written book.WITH A NEW AFTERWORD BY THE AUTHOR From the Back Cover Why does an infant die of malnutrition? Why does an eight-year-old hold a knife to his brothers throat? Or a mother push her cherished daughter twenty-three floors to her death? Marc Parent, a city caseworker, searched the streets--and his heart--for the answers, and shares them in this powerful, vivid, beautifully written book. WITH A NEW AFTERWORD BY THE AUTHOR