Turning Stones: My Days and Nights with Children at Risk
Marc Parent
Why does an infant die of malnutrition? Why does an eight-year-old hold a knife to his brother's throat? Or a mother push her cherished daughter twenty-three floors to her death? Marc Parent, a city caseworker, searched the streets—and his heart—for the answers, and shares them in this powerful, vivid, beautifully written book.
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- Ballantine Books
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- 9780449912355
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Awards
- Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Current InterestShortlisted(1996)
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