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Too Hurt to Stay: The True Story of a Troubled Boy's Desperate Search for a Loving Home
Contributor(s): Watson, Casey (Author)
ISBN: 0007436629     ISBN-13: 9780007436620
Publisher: Harper Element
OUR PRICE:   $8.99  
Product Type: Paperback
Published: April 2013
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BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs
- Biography & Autobiography | Survival
- Family & Relationships | Adoption & Fostering
Dewey: B
Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5" W x 7.7" (0.55 lbs) 304 pages
 
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Publisher Description:

The fourth title from Sunday Times bestselling author Casey Watson.

Eight-year-old Spencer takes himself to social services and demands to be taken into care. It's a desperate act, a cry for help, but his parent's reaction - good riddance - speaks volumes. Casey's hackles are immediately up for this poor child.

Spencer is the middle child of four siblings. His parents claim all their other kids are 'normal' and that Spencer was born 'vicious and evil'. Casey and her family are disgusted - kids aren't born evil, they get damaged. Although when vigilante neighbours start to take action and their landlord threatens eviction, Casey is stretched to the limits, trying desperately to hold on to this boy who causes so much pain and destruction.

Casey is determined to try and understand what Spencer is going through and help him find the loving home he is so desperately searching for. But it's only when Spencer's mother gets in touch with social services for the first time that gradually everything starts to make sense.


Contributor Bio(s): Watson, Casey: - "

Casey Watson, who writes under a pseudonym, is a specialist foster carer. She and her husband, Mike, look after children who are particularly troubled or damaged by their past.

Before becoming a foster carer Casey was a behaviour manager for her local comprehensive school. It was through working with these 'difficult' children - removed from mainstream classes for various reasons - that the idea for her future career was born.

Casey is married with two children and three grandchildren.

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