Author: Shandreka Jones
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780692533871
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
A memoir reflecting on the author's tormenting, abusive experience in the foster care system. Spending much of her time in an attic, basement, or a cold kitchen, Shandreka's imaginary friends kept her company and gave her the love she desperately craved. Allowed to slip through the cracks of the broken foster care system, Shandreka M. Jones not only shares her painful abuse, but offers solutions to improve the system and decrease the rate of abused children in foster homes.
Butterfly in the Attic
Author: Shandreka Jones
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780692533871
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
A memoir reflecting on the author's tormenting, abusive experience in the foster care system. Spending much of her time in an attic, basement, or a cold kitchen, Shandreka's imaginary friends kept her company and gave her the love she desperately craved. Allowed to slip through the cracks of the broken foster care system, Shandreka M. Jones not only shares her painful abuse, but offers solutions to improve the system and decrease the rate of abused children in foster homes.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780692533871
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
A memoir reflecting on the author's tormenting, abusive experience in the foster care system. Spending much of her time in an attic, basement, or a cold kitchen, Shandreka's imaginary friends kept her company and gave her the love she desperately craved. Allowed to slip through the cracks of the broken foster care system, Shandreka M. Jones not only shares her painful abuse, but offers solutions to improve the system and decrease the rate of abused children in foster homes.
Flowers In The Attic
Author: V.C. Andrews
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1451636946
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 411
Book Description
Celebrate the fortieth anniversary of the enduring gothic masterpiece Flowers in the Attic—the unforgettable forbidden love story that earned V.C. Andrews a fiercely devoted fan base and became an international cult classic. At the top of the stairs there are four secrets hidden—blond, innocent, and fighting for their lives… They were a perfect and beautiful family—until a heartbreaking tragedy shattered their happiness. Now, for the sake of an inheritance that will ensure their future, the children must be hidden away out of sight, as if they never existed. They are kept in the attic of their grandmother’s labyrinthine mansion, isolated and alone. As the visits from their seemingly unconcerned mother slowly dwindle, the four children grow ever closer and depend upon one another to survive both this cramped world and their cruel grandmother. A suspenseful and thrilling tale of family, greed, murder, and forbidden love, Flowers in the Attic is the unputdownable first novel of the epic Dollanganger family saga. The Dollanganger series includes: Flowers in the Attic, Petals in the Wind, If There Be Thorns, Seeds of Yesterday, Garden of Shadows, Beneath the Attic, and Out of the Attic.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1451636946
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 411
Book Description
Celebrate the fortieth anniversary of the enduring gothic masterpiece Flowers in the Attic—the unforgettable forbidden love story that earned V.C. Andrews a fiercely devoted fan base and became an international cult classic. At the top of the stairs there are four secrets hidden—blond, innocent, and fighting for their lives… They were a perfect and beautiful family—until a heartbreaking tragedy shattered their happiness. Now, for the sake of an inheritance that will ensure their future, the children must be hidden away out of sight, as if they never existed. They are kept in the attic of their grandmother’s labyrinthine mansion, isolated and alone. As the visits from their seemingly unconcerned mother slowly dwindle, the four children grow ever closer and depend upon one another to survive both this cramped world and their cruel grandmother. A suspenseful and thrilling tale of family, greed, murder, and forbidden love, Flowers in the Attic is the unputdownable first novel of the epic Dollanganger family saga. The Dollanganger series includes: Flowers in the Attic, Petals in the Wind, If There Be Thorns, Seeds of Yesterday, Garden of Shadows, Beneath the Attic, and Out of the Attic.
The Wife in the Attic
Author: Rose Lerner
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Goldengrove's towers and twisted chimneys rose at the very edge of the peaceful Weald, a stone's throw from the poisonous marshes and merciless waters of Rye Bay. Young Tabby Palethorp had been running wild there ever since her mother grew too ill to leave her room.I was the perfect choice to give Tabby a good English education: thoroughly respectable and far too plain to tempt her lonely father, Sir Kit, to indiscretion.I knew better than to trust my new employer with the truth about my past. But knowing better couldn't stop me from yearning for impossible things: to be Tabby's mother, Sir Kit's companion, and Goldengrove's new mistress.All that belonged to poor Lady Palethorp. Most of all, I burned to finally catch a glimpse of her.Surely she could tell me who cut the strings on my guitar, why all the doors inside the house were locked after dark, and whose footsteps I heard in the night... "It gave me nightmares...a furious, tender, aching, incisive masterpiece of a book." --Olivia Waite, author of The Lady's Guide to Celestial Mechanics
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Goldengrove's towers and twisted chimneys rose at the very edge of the peaceful Weald, a stone's throw from the poisonous marshes and merciless waters of Rye Bay. Young Tabby Palethorp had been running wild there ever since her mother grew too ill to leave her room.I was the perfect choice to give Tabby a good English education: thoroughly respectable and far too plain to tempt her lonely father, Sir Kit, to indiscretion.I knew better than to trust my new employer with the truth about my past. But knowing better couldn't stop me from yearning for impossible things: to be Tabby's mother, Sir Kit's companion, and Goldengrove's new mistress.All that belonged to poor Lady Palethorp. Most of all, I burned to finally catch a glimpse of her.Surely she could tell me who cut the strings on my guitar, why all the doors inside the house were locked after dark, and whose footsteps I heard in the night... "It gave me nightmares...a furious, tender, aching, incisive masterpiece of a book." --Olivia Waite, author of The Lady's Guide to Celestial Mechanics
The Whalestoe Letters
Author: Mark Z. Danielewski
Publisher: Pantheon
ISBN: 0375714413
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 106
Book Description
Between 1982 and 1989, Pelafina H. Lièvre sent her son, Johnny Truant, a series of letters from The Three Attic Whalestoe Institute, a psychiatric facility in Ohio where she spent the final years of her life. Beautiful, heartfelt, and tragic, this correspondence reveals the powerful and deeply moving relationship between a brilliant though mentally ill mother and the precocious, gifted young son she never ceases to love. Originally contained within the monumental House of Leaves, this collection stands alone as a stunning portrait of mother and child. It is presented here along with a foreword by Walden D. Wyhrta and eleven previously unavailable letters.
Publisher: Pantheon
ISBN: 0375714413
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 106
Book Description
Between 1982 and 1989, Pelafina H. Lièvre sent her son, Johnny Truant, a series of letters from The Three Attic Whalestoe Institute, a psychiatric facility in Ohio where she spent the final years of her life. Beautiful, heartfelt, and tragic, this correspondence reveals the powerful and deeply moving relationship between a brilliant though mentally ill mother and the precocious, gifted young son she never ceases to love. Originally contained within the monumental House of Leaves, this collection stands alone as a stunning portrait of mother and child. It is presented here along with a foreword by Walden D. Wyhrta and eleven previously unavailable letters.
Butterfly
Author: Norie Huddle
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781878690005
Category : Butterflies
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781878690005
Category : Butterflies
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
The Boy in the Attic
Author: Paul Yee
Publisher: Groundwood Books
ISBN: 9780888993304
Category : Children's literature
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Kai-ming finds a friend in the attic of his new home in America but he has to leave.
Publisher: Groundwood Books
ISBN: 9780888993304
Category : Children's literature
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Kai-ming finds a friend in the attic of his new home in America but he has to leave.
The Butterfly Code
Author: Sue Wyshynski
Publisher: Whitman Books
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Publisher: Whitman Books
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Attic of the Wind
Author: Doris Herold Lund
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Stories in rhyme
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
A story about what happens to all the things (such as feathers, hats, kites, autumn leaves) that blow away and are lost in the wind.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Stories in rhyme
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
A story about what happens to all the things (such as feathers, hats, kites, autumn leaves) that blow away and are lost in the wind.
Runaways
Author: V.C. Andrews
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1451637039
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 317
Book Description
The spellbinding Orphans series concludes in this thrilling new novel from V.C. Andrews. "All for one and one for all" was the girls' motto. In the grim foster home for orphans run by Louise and Gordon Tooey, at least Brooke, Crystal, Raven, and Butterfly had each other. Calling themselves "sisters," together they could forget the past and dream of a new chance...a real home. Then they discovered a secret even more haunting than Gordon's heavy boots pounding on the wooden floors. Their fragile hopes of a better life shattered, they escaped the only way they could. Soon they were runaways in a borrowed car, desperately wishing to wake up one morning in a place of sunshine and love. Raven hoped to be a singer, Butterfly wanted to be a dancer, Crystal planned for college, and Brooke privately hoped to find her mother in California. On the open road the chains of sadness that had bound them seemed to melt away, and the kindness of strangers made a secure future seem almost real. But the highway was a dangerous place, and soon they were penniless and more vulnerable than ever. Alone under the wide western sky, they had only each other to ask if they should give up their dreams...or if they were really halfway to a haven of safety and happiness...
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1451637039
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 317
Book Description
The spellbinding Orphans series concludes in this thrilling new novel from V.C. Andrews. "All for one and one for all" was the girls' motto. In the grim foster home for orphans run by Louise and Gordon Tooey, at least Brooke, Crystal, Raven, and Butterfly had each other. Calling themselves "sisters," together they could forget the past and dream of a new chance...a real home. Then they discovered a secret even more haunting than Gordon's heavy boots pounding on the wooden floors. Their fragile hopes of a better life shattered, they escaped the only way they could. Soon they were runaways in a borrowed car, desperately wishing to wake up one morning in a place of sunshine and love. Raven hoped to be a singer, Butterfly wanted to be a dancer, Crystal planned for college, and Brooke privately hoped to find her mother in California. On the open road the chains of sadness that had bound them seemed to melt away, and the kindness of strangers made a secure future seem almost real. But the highway was a dangerous place, and soon they were penniless and more vulnerable than ever. Alone under the wide western sky, they had only each other to ask if they should give up their dreams...or if they were really halfway to a haven of safety and happiness...
Butterfly
Author: Virginia C. Andrews
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780671020293
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
An orphan named Butterfly struggles to break free of her painful past.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780671020293
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
An orphan named Butterfly struggles to break free of her painful past.