Hope's Boy: A Memoir
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When Andrew Bridge was seven years old, he and his mother-a mentally unstable woman who loved her child more than she could care for him-slid deeper and deeper into poverty, until they were reduced to scavenging for food in trash bins. Welfare officials did little more than threaten to take Andrew away, until a social worker arrived with a police escort and did just that while his mother screamed on the sidewalk. And so began Andrew's descent into the foster care system-"care" being a terrible irony, as he received almost none for the next eleven years.Academic achievement was Andrew's ticket out of hell-a scholarship to Wesleyan University led to Harvard Law School and a Fulbright Scholarship. Now an accomplished adult, he has dedicated his life to working on behalf of the frightened children still lost in the system. Hope's Boy is his story, a story of endurance and the power of love and, most of all, of hope.
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Bridge, A., & Drummond, D. (2008). Hope's Boy: A Memoir. Unabridged. [United States], Tantor Media, Inc.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Bridge, Andrew and David, Drummond. 2008. Hope's Boy: A Memoir. [United States], Tantor Media, Inc.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Bridge, Andrew and David, Drummond, Hope's Boy: A Memoir. [United States], Tantor Media, Inc, 2008.
MLA Citation (style guide)Bridge, Andrew, and David Drummond. Hope's Boy: A Memoir. Unabridged. [United States], Tantor Media, Inc, 2008.
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