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04/04/2003

 

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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.