[PDF] The Childrens Home eBook

Author : Charles Lambert
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 13,95 MB
Release : 2016-01-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1501117394

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In a sprawling estate Morgan Fletcher, the disfigured heir to a fortune of mysterious origins, spends his days in quiet study, avoiding his reflection in mirrors and the lake at the end of his garden. Two children, Moira and David, appear, and Morgan gives them free reign of the mansion he shares with his housekeeper Engel. Then more children begin to show up. They make bizarre discoveries in the mansion attics, and seem to disappear into the hidden rooms of the estate-- and perhaps into the hidden corners of Morgan's mind.

Author : Charles Lambert
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 22,47 MB
Release : 2017-01-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1501117408

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"For fans of Shirley Jackson, Neil Gaiman, Roald Dahl, and Edward Gorey, a beguiling and disarming debut novel from an award-winning British author about a mysterious group of children who appear to a disfigured recluse and his country doctor--and the startling revelations their behavior evokes"--

Author : Mark H. Johnson
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 45,56 MB
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 9780738512242

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Serving as the pastor of a small Swedish congregation in New Britain, Rev. John Eric Klingberg never forgot his own childhood misery. His past inspired a lifelong mission: to provide a home for destitute and forgotten children. In May 1903, Klingberg found three small boys who had been abandoned in a shack and welcomed them into a new home, the first Klingberg Children's Home. After years of prayer and gracious donations from friends and strangers alike, Klingberg gradually acquired the parcel of land overlooking the city of New Britain and built the home that would house more than two thousand boys and girls over the years. The images in Klingberg Children's Home come from the extensive collections of the Klingberg Family Centers. They tell the captivating story of Klingberg's journey in faith as he developed the orphanage. This collection includes photographs of Klingberg's birthplace in Sweden; photographs of the first orphans taken in by Klingberg in 1903; images of the orphanage on the hilltop and the ten orphan houses occupied during the early years; and scenes of the children's everyday life.

Author : Jonathan Stanley
Publisher : Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 33,56 MB
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 1907969861

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Children's homes in England must follow the National Minimum Regulations and Standards for Children's Homes. This guide tells you what these Standards are, and how they apply to where your child lives. Use this guide to find out what is expected of children's homes and the staff who work in them, how you can help the people caring for your child, and the information you should receive. This guide provides the wording of each Standard, advice about good practice, and a list of questions you can use to ensure that the care of your child is 'up to standard'. Parent's Guide to Children's Homes Standards and Regulations is part of a series of guides about the National Minimum Standards for Children's Homes. Other guides are available for young people living in homes and staff who work in homes.

Author : Allan Cooke
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 17,93 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1477238263

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A Lost Childhood This is the story of injustice and cruelty experienced by one boy during his years spent in the care of a West Riding County Councils Children's Home, from being an infant of two until the age of seventeen. Memories which have stayed with him to this day are recorded in this book. "They stole my childhood, something I will never forgive them for."

Author : Beverly Schell Ales
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 45,38 MB
Release : 2014-12-11
Category : History
ISBN : 1483422704

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Newspaper records of history of Children's Home building, by author who lived at the Home 1940-46. Some photos of children with Index from census records.

Author : Beatriz Ilari
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 30,26 MB
Release : 2016-09-06
Category : Music
ISBN : 0253022177

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This book offers a fresh and diverse perspective on home musical activities of young children from a variety of countries, including; Brazil, Denmark, Greece, Israel, Kenya, the Netherlands, Singapore, Spain, South Africa,Taiwan, the UK, and the United States. Narrowing their study to seven-year-olds from middle-class families, the articles in this volume argue that home musical experiences provide new and important windows into musical childhoods as they relate to issues of identity, family life, gender, culture, social class and schooling. Though childhood musical engagement differs considerably, it has direct implications for a better understanding of music education and childhood development. Using a wiki to share data and research across time and space, this volume is a model for collaborative cross-cultural research and is centered on the home as a primary research site for children's musical engagement.

Author : David Berridge
Publisher : JKP
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 15,93 MB
Release : 1991-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1905818998

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This ebook reports on the unprecedented and radical step taken by Warwickshire Social Services Department when, in 1986, it closed the last of its children's homes. This book examines the background to these developments, the reasons for them and their consequences. The findings are set in the context of the crisis of confidence in residential child care that occurred in the early 1990's culminating in the Pindown Report on Staffordshire which revealed an alarming catalogue of inhuman and degrading treatment of children in residential care. This research, undertaken by NCB, reports findings that have major national and international significance. The future role of children's homes is in question and this study examines whether foster care, in particular, is more effective at meeting children's needs than residential care. Young people's own views are included and the work is presented very much in the context of the Children Act 1989.

Author : Andrew Gaeddert
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 42,6 MB
Release : 2015-12-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1483436985

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After the death of his two sisters in a house fire and the arrest of his father for arson, nineteen-year-old TY Schmelling suddenly finds himself homeless and broke, unable to go to college as he'd planned. To make ends meet, he takes a job at Egret Ranch, a residential treatment facility for emotionally disturbed children in rural Mendocino County, California. Ty hopes that the facility's atmosphere will reflect its peaceful surroundings. The truth is much darker. The Ranch's director is a manipulative psychiatrist with personality disorders of his own. Patients and staff live in a high sexualized environment fueled by binge drinking and recreational drug use. Suspenseful and raw, Children's Home Inc., tells the realistic story of how Ty confronts the challenges of working in an environment where the adults are as sick as the children they are supposed to be helping.

Author : Julie Shaw
Publisher : Springer
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 43,13 MB
Release : 2014-06-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1137319615

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This book explores the factors at the individual, institutional and systemic levels which contribute to children's home residents coming to the attention of the youth justice system, and the consequent implications for policy and practice. Perspectives are drawn from both young people and professionals in the care and youth justice systems.