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Fiction featuring Care Experience We Are All Guilty Here Karin Slaughter 2025 We Are All Guilty Here (2025) by American writer, Karin Slaughter, has a couple of Care Experienced Characters. One is lurking in the background throughout the story. Wesley Woodrow, at the beginning of the novel, is a 16-year-old living with his grandmother and already in trouble with the local police for dealing drugs. However, it’s not Woody who is raping and killing teenage girls. That turns out to be 3 respected members of the community, men no-one would suspect of such horrors. The other Care Experienced Character is *spoiler alert* central to the story. Emmy is a local cop investigating missing teenager girls. What we find out at the end of the novel is that Emmy has been raised in the kinship care of her grandparents, people she thinks are her parents. External Website

Authors S Stolen Generations Testimonies ➝ Adoptee memorial park Omma Poom/엄마품동산, Paju. ➝ On Killing Charles Dickens ➝ The Meaning of Maggie in Toni Morrison's 'Recitatif' ➝ 10 Screwed Up Movie Orphans ➝ Drawing on Childhood: New exhibition examines why so many of our most cherished fictional heroes are orphans | The Independent ➝ How Black and White America Reacted to Maya Angelou’s I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings ➝ Nicky Campbell: "There was a life long whisper: 'my mother didn't want me'" ➝ Author of ‘Hackney Child’ on absent parents, care homes, and Mother’s Day ➝ ‘12 Mighty Orphans’ film to premiere in Fort Worth, TX in 2020 | Fort Worth Star-Telegram ➝ Back to Top

Children's Non-fiction John Lennon Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara 2020 When John Lennon formed a band while still in school, he couldn’t have known they were about to change music forever. With their exciting new sounds, rebel attitudes and gift for songwriting, everyone went crazy for The Beatles. Today, John is remembered not just as a musical icon, but as a champion of world peace. This inspiring book features stylish and quirky illustrations and extra facts at the back, including a biographical timeline with historical photos and a detailed profile of the legendary Beatle’s life. External Website

News - broadcast, print, internet, magazine articles Tasmania's connection to author Joseph Conrad remembered on anniversary of his death Carol Raabus 2016 Before Joseph Conrad wrote novels, he sailed merchant ships. The only ship he captained was the Otago, the remains of which lie on the banks of the Rivert Derwent in Tasmania, only 20 minutes out from Hobart. On the anniversary of his death in 1924, fans of Conrad's work continue to gather around the remains of the Otago to pay homage to him. External Website

Poets Robert Hayden Robert Hayden African American poet, essayist and educator Robert Haydon (1913-1980) was brought up by foster parents. Born to Ruth and Asa Sheffey, named Asa Bundy Sheffey in Detroit, Michigan, but who separated before his birth. Neighbours Sue Ellen Westerfield and William Hayden, took him in and he grew up in the Detroit. His childhood was tulmultuous due to fights and beatings plus competition from his birth mother for his affection. He had severe visual problems which meant he couldn't take part in sports like other children and he suffered from depression. "Those Winter Sundays" is a poem written in 1962 is about the father/son relationship – in this instance foster father. He recalls memories of his father, realizing that despite the distance between them there was a kind of love, real and intangible, shown by the father's actions and he feels remorse. He was English professor at Fisk University. He is famous for writing about cultural themes and African American history. From 1976-78 he was what became known as the US Poet Laureate. He was the first African American to hold that office. External Website

Writers Ruth Westheimer 1928-2024 Karola Ruth Westheimer (b.1928), better known as Dr. Ruth, is a German-American sex therapist, media personality, author, radio, television talk show host, sniper, and Holocaust survivor. Ruth Westheimer was born Karola Ruth Siegal in Wiesenfeld, Germany. She was the only child of Irma and Julius Siegel, Orthodox Jews. At the end of 1938 (some sources say early 1939), ten-year-old Ruth was sent from Frankfurt to an orphanage in Switzerland for her protection, after her father was arrested by the Nazis. After the war, 17-year-old Ruth was sent to Palestine via Marseille, because her parents were not amongst the survivors of the Holocaust. There she joined a kibbutz and the Jewish resistance. During the 1950s, Ruth made her way to New York via France where she had gone to university to study psychology. She stayed on in America, becoming a citizen in 1965. Her media career began in 1980 with the radio show Sexually Speaking, which continued until 1990. She has hosted several series on the Lifetime Channel and other cable television networks from 1984 to 1993 and is the author of 45 books on sex and sexuality. External Website

Authors I Dickens vs Tolstoy ➝ The IMO Podcast: open and honest conversations with care leavers ➝ Fielding's Tom Jones ➝ Innocence and "child rescue" in the colonial imagination ➝ Back to Top

Autobiography/Memoir Mini & Me Michael Cooper 2013 Michael 'Mini' Cooper knew he was different from an early age. Fiercely independent, he challenged injustice and questioned what he perceived to be the irrational belief systems of both parents and teachers alike. But no one wanted to listen and they didn't want him heard. After several failed attempts at beating him into submission, he fought back with devastating consequences. Michael Cooper didn't always know the truth but he understood the lie. Some have described him as a warrior of justice but for him it was always about the human spirit and the right to let breathe freely. External Website

Authors M One Hundred Years of Solitude (Novel) ➝ Anne of Green Gables ➝ When the Stars Go Dark ➝ Emily of New Moon ➝ A Ticket to Ride ➝ Back to Top

Films/Videos Redress: Breaking The Silence 2020 Redress: Breaking The Silence is an Irish documentary broadcast by RTE in 2020. The purpose in making the documentary was to speak with survivors of abuse in Irish institutions and assess the state’s response to these survivors. External Website

Writers Michel Houellebecqu Michel Thomas Houellebecq (b. circa 1956) was born on the French island Réunion. When he was five months old, he was sent to live in Algeria with his maternal grandparents. At around age 6, he was then transferred to the care of his paternal grandmother whose maiden name he took for his own (she died in 1978). According to Kathleen Kuiper (Britannica), Houellebecq’s “body of work gives evidence that the abandonment by and continued absence of his parents, who divorced when he was young, deeply scarred him.” Michel Houellebecq is widely regarded as one of France’s best known 20th century novelists, and is sometimes thought of as that country’s most shocking one. External Website

Fiction featuring Care Experience The Instrumentalist Harriet Constable 2024 Venice. 1704. In this city of glittering splendour, desperation and destitution are never far away. At the Ospedale della Pietà, abandoned orphan girls are posted every through a tiny gap in the wall every day. Inspired by the true story of Anna Maria della Pieta, a Venetian orphan and violin prodigy who studied under Antonio Vivaldi. Eight-year-old Anna Maria is just one of the three hundred girls growing up within the Pietà's walls – but she already knows she is different. Obsessive and gifted, she is on a mission to become Venice’s greatest violinist and composer, and in her remarkable world of colour and sound, it seems like nothing with stop her. External Website

Authors E The Life and Work of Muhammad ➝ The Cut Out Girl: A Story of War and Family, Lost and Found: The Costa Book of the Year 2018 ➝ Back to Top

Films/Videos Christmas Comes But Once A Year 1936 Christmas Comes But Once a Year (1936) featuring Professor Grampy (without Betty Boop). The cartoon begins in an orphanage, where the orphans are all asleep in the dormitory, waiting for Christmas morning. The orphans are given broken toys for Christmas. They burst into tears over having no other Christmas presents. which is seen by Professor Grampy. The thoughtful inventor comes up with an idea to replace the toys with better ones. While the orphans are still crying in the dormitory, Grampy dresses up as Santa Claus and surprises the orphans by ringing the bell and shouting, "Merry Christmas, everybody!" The orphans instantly stop crying, brighten and excitedly rush out to play with their new toys. External Website

Writers Louis Esson (poet, journalist) Thomas Louis Buvelot Esson was born in Edinburgh then moved with his mother to Melbourne, Australia when he was 3. For most of his childhood in Melbourne, Louis lived with his aunts and uncles, only visiting his mother during school holidays. From 1904, Esson began publishing poetry in the Bulletin and later contributed articles to the Socialist. Esson’s first full-length play, The Time is Not Yet Ripe, was staged in Melbourne in 1912. In the 1920s, Esson was a co-founder of the Pioneer Players, a theatre company dedicated to the performance of Australian plays. Although the Pioneer Players survived only 4 years, Louis Esson is widely regarded as the ‘father of Australian drama’. External Website

Authors M Matthew Henson ➝ Conversations with Myself ➝ Always in the convent shadow ➝ Memories of a Catholic Girlhood ➝ Heartlines: The Year I Met My Other Mother ➝ Red Tape Rape. The Story of Ki Meekins ➝ Against the Odds. Care Leavers at University ➝ Recipes for Survival: Stories of hope and healing by survivors of the state 'care' system in Australia ➝ The World is My Home ➝ My Place ➝ Breaking Night: A Memoir of Forgiveness, Survival, and My Journey from Homeless to Harvard ➝ The Last Foundling: A little boy left behind, The mother who wanted him back ➝ No Way Home: The terrifying story of life in a children's home and a little girl's struggle to survive ➝ Among the Porcupines ➝ Borderline: A Memoir ➝ Like Family: Growing Up in Other People's Houses, a Memoir ➝ Seven Storey Mountain ➝ Up from the Lowest Rung ➝ Putting Down Roots ➝ The True “Drama of the Gifted Child”: The Phantom Alice Miller — The Real Person ➝ Our Voice of Fire ➝ Long Walk to Freedom ➝ Keeping in step ➝ An Australian Son ➝ Pulling the Chariot of the Sun ➝ It Is No Secret ➝ Two Mothers ➝ Ways of the Wicked Witch ➝ God was always there ➝ Paid for: My Journey Through Prostitution ➝ Sunday's Child? A Memoir by Leslie Baruch Brent ➝ Back to Top

Films/Videos Jojo Rabbitt 2019 Jojo Betzlers is a member of Hitler Youth during the latter stages of WWII. His pro-Nazi views are challenged when he finds out that his mother has a teenage Jewish girl in hiding upstairs. The film was inspired by the 2019 book by Christine Leunens, Caging Skies. External Website

Sport Sir Mo Farah Mo Farah Mohamed Muktar Jama Farah was born Hussein Abdi Kahin in Somalia. At the age of 9 he was illegally trafficked to the UK via the Republic of Djibouti by a woman who told him he was being taken to stay with relatives. In the UK the child was given the name Mohamed Farah, kept out of school and forced to do housework and child care. Around the age of 11 or 12, Mo finally began attending school where he excelled at athetlics and confided in his Physical Education teacher, Alan Watkinson, about his background; Watkinson helped Mo to be fostered by a Somali family. By the age of 13, Mo was beginning to make a name for himself. In 2001, he won the 5000 metres at the European Athletics Junior Championships. Farah has gone on to win numerous other awards and is regarded as the most successful male track distance runner ever. He was knighted in 2017. External Website

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Biography of Care Experienced People An Uncontrollable Child Reggie Sultan 2008 After running away and stealing cars, Reggie Sultan was described as 'an uncontrollable child'. Reggie tells his story of boys homes, of his escapes, being sent to gaol, his work as a stockman, and his development as an Aboriginal artist. External Website