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    <title>Three little words</title>
    <subTitle>a memoir</subTitle>
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    <namePart>Rhodes-Courter, Ashley</namePart>
    <namePart type="date">1985-</namePart>
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    <publisher>Atheneum</publisher>
    <dateIssued>c2008</dateIssued>
    <dateIssued encoding="marc">2008</dateIssued>
    <edition>1st ed.</edition>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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  <abstract>Ashley spent nine years in foster care after being taken away from her mother. She endured many caseworkers, moving from school to school and manipulative, humiliating and abusive treatment from one foster family. See how she survives and eventually thrives against the odds.</abstract>
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    <topic>Adopted children</topic>
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    <topic>Biography</topic>
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    <topic>Foster children</topic>
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
    <topic>Biography</topic>
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    <topic>Foster home care</topic>
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  <identifier type="isbn">9781416948063 (hardcover)</identifier>
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