Turning Stones: My Days and Nights with Children at Risk a Caseworker's Story - Paperback
by Marc Parent
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Availability:In StockContributor:Marc Parent, Anna Quindlen (Foreword by)Publish date:1/27/1998Pages:400
Language:EnglishPublisher:Ballantine BooksISBN-13:9780449912355ISBN-10:449912353UPC:9780449912355Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, EducationBook Subcategory:Teaching, Student Life & Student AffairsBook Topic:SubjectsSize:8.20 x 5.50 x 0.90 inchesWeight:1.0009Product ID:SCTE37BDB9
Turning Stones: My Days and Nights with Children at Risk a Caseworker's Story
"An absorbing piece of narrative nonfiction . . . A rare glimpse of what it is like to man these front lines of the war on child abuse--and what it does to a person's soul. . . . Devastating [and] mesmerizing."--The Los Angeles Times
Featuring a new Afterword by the author Why does an infant die of malnutrition? Why does an eight-year-old hold a knife to his brother's throat? Or a mother push her...
Featuring a new Afterword by the author Why does an infant die of malnutrition? Why does an eight-year-old hold a knife to his brother's throat? Or a mother push her...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Ballantine BooksISBN-13:9780449912355ISBN-10:449912353UPC:9780449912355Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, EducationBook Subcategory:Teaching, Student Life & Student AffairsBook Topic:SubjectsSize:8.20 x 5.50 x 0.90 inchesWeight:1.0009Product ID:SCTE37BDB9
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.
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