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STATE KID (Online book) He was a foster child. He ran away from abuse. He went to juvenile prison. He ended up running the place. He surprised an awful lot of people. |
This is for middle-grade teachers of English, and possibly for counselors or those with an interest in foster care. "State Kid" is an online Dickens-style serialized novel, just nearing completion. The story is about Billy, a runaway foster child. It's fiction with a basis in fact: author George Pollock, a sometime English teacher and publisher from the Boston area, was himself a foster child from age 5 to 17. |