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Author's Purpose
Quotes from the Book
"The Ortizes had at least fourteen children at one point when their official capacity was two." (Courter 207)
73 child welfare administrators
44 child welfare caseworkers
19 foster parents
23 attorneys
17 psychologists, psychiatrists, and therapists
5 Guardian ad Litem staff
4 judges
4 court personnel
3 abuse registry workers
2 primary case workers
1 Guardian ad Litem
"Out of these 195 people, only Mary Miller and Martha Cook were the only unpaid volunteers--yet they are the two people who made the greatest difference in my life" (Courter 296).
Setting
Big Ideas
Summaries
Writing Summary
Book Summary
- Her mother was 17 when she was born
- Auto-biography
- Sent into foster care after four years
- 1st person point of view
- Lived with grandfather, until he was shot
- All narrative story
- Met her adoptive parents at the shelter
- Told her story to make people aware
Three Little Words
- To tell the story of her life
- Don't take things for granted
- Stages shown in each foster home
- How you live can effect your personality
- Informs the dis-organization in the foster system
- Her social worker Miles Ferris
- The dis-organization in the foster care system
- Her Guardian ad Litem Mary Miller
By: Ashley Rhodes-Courter
Ashley Rhodes-Courter accepting the
National Angels in Adoption Award
- Late 90's to early 2000's
- North Carolina and Florida
- The evolution of things over time, like music
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