"Foster Parenting: A Simple Guide to Understanding What It's All About is a must read for anyone interested in becoming a foster parent and a great resource for professionals of social work who work with foster children and the families who care for them."

Click here to read the entire review as seen in the January/February 2008 issue of Foster Parenting TODAY.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Songs for a Mockingbird

Foster Parenting:

A Simple Guide to Understanding What It’s All About

 

Book Summary

Anyone who desires to help a child when they need it most should read this book. Foster Parenting: A Simple Guide to Understanding What It’s All About guides the reader through the entire process of foster parenting from making that first phone call to the arrival of your first foster child. It explains how to prepare your home for fostering and the process of caring for a foster child. It guides you through the adoption process and provides resources for coping when a child returns home.

About The Author

Stacie Craig was a foster mother for several years. She and her husband have one biological child and four children who were adopted from foster care. Having gotten her knowledge through experience she's hoping to smooth the path for prospective foster parents. Foster Parenting: A Simple Guide to Understanding What It’s All About is her first published book.

 

Songs for a Mockingbird

 

 

Book Summary

All they wanted was a peaceful, simple life away from the troubles
of the world, where they could worship God freely. That’s why
they moved to a quaint farm in Iowa. But that was before the
guards, the guns and the big iron gate forced them all to live as
slaves under the control of Harve and Agnes Oswald.

Young idyllic Melinda joined this group in college to understand
God. She reluctantly moved to the farm with her husband Josh,
but soon finds herself living and working in a grueling cult with
her family. Years later, after she is told of the death of her husband
and the fate that awaits her and her young coworker
Shannon, she realizes she must escape.But escape from the cult is
difficult and the road to freedom won’t be easy.

Melinda must now start a new life in a nearby town with the help
of a local family. Unfortunately, the leaders of the cult have other
plans that will jeopardize the lives of Melinda and her family as
well as the lives of many of her new friends.

Can Melinda find the strength and courage to fight back and save
those she cares about? Or will she become another casualty of the
devastating plans of the cult.

About the Author

Bonnie Compton Hanson is a pastor’s wife, a former
teacher, missionary in Australia, and accountant and communications
specialist with an investment firm. She is on the board of the
Orange County (CA) Christian Writers Fellowship and helps lead
writing conferences and seminars. She speaks to MOPS, seniors’
and women’s groups; teaches writing and Bible courses; mentors
writers; and does freelance critiquing and editing.
Bonnie is a double art major and holds a Master’s of
Ministry in Christian Communication. She is a former editor of
Scripture Press, and has also ministered for several years as curriculum
writer and product designer with many publishers. In addition,
she served as an editor for several magazines.
She has authored and co-authored more than 25 books
including Making the Most of Your Golden Years, Mothers'
Meditations and the popular children’s series The Ponytail Girls.
Her writings have been included in several anthologies including
multiple inclusions in the Chicken Soup series of books. In addition,
hundreds of her articles, poems, and other writings have
appeared in magazines for both children and adults.
Bonnie lives in California with Don, her husband of fifty
years.