Book & Movie Reviews

Raising Kids and Teens with FASD: Advice and Strategies to Help Your Family to Thrive! By Barb Clark Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2025, ISBN: 978-1-80501-390-7, 237 pages, $17.95 When Barb Clark and her husband Michael adopted […]

Written in simple words and short sentences, “Tuesday’s Bear: A Tale of the Lost and Found” delivers a poignant message of hope and redemption for its readers. Writer Alexandra Davis, who has also written an […]

This New York Times Bestseller is a historical fiction novel based on the Tennessee Children’s Home Society operated by Georgia Tann from the 1920s to the 1950s in Memphis. “Before We Were Yours” tells the […]

Written in a simple style that would resonate with school children and adults alike, this book follows the journey of Malcolm Montgomery, a seventh grader. Waiting to be adopted, Malcolm is described at the outset […]

After entering foster care at 3 years old, Charell Star spent many of her childhood years fitting herself into other people’s spaces. So, when she awoke alone in the quiet of her New York condo […]

New Documentary Film Produced by Los Angeles Foster Youth Explores the Pain and Failed Promise of Psychiatric Drugs By Jeremy Loudenback As a high school sophomore in Los Angeles, former foster youth Kyshawna Johnson started […]

From Foster Care Film, now airing on PBS The new film “Absence Presence” from Foster Care Film follows the story of two young women – Charell and Camilla – who grew up in New York’s […]

The “Great Expectations: An Occupations Primer” introduces various occupations such as teacher, tailor, blacksmith, merchant, lawyer, and even companion and gentleman. While these are pertinent to Charles Dickens’ classic novel, this book is simply a […]

Adoptive mom Marcy Bursac has received the Angels in Adoption Award from the Congressional Coalition on Adoption Institute, was United States of America’s Mrs. Ohio in 2022 and is the founder of The Forgotten Adoption […]

Reviewed by Sriya Chattopadhay While several books focus on how to welcome a child into your home — and the mental/emotional toll it takes on the resource parents — not too many tell the story […]