Raising Myself: A Memoir of Neglect, Shame, and Growing Up Too Soon Fiction_Gift_Guide foster kid Anne Shirley finally

foster kid Anne Shirley finally lands in a loving home and befriends a girl who she may have more-than-friends feelings for

A vibrant and emotional science fantasy about cousins trapped in mirrored worlds – the resplendent and verdant summer city and the ice-carved wastes of the winter city

You’ll find ingenious twists like Berry Biscuits

and a letter from Ernest Hemingway

Raising Myself: A Memoir of Neglect, Shame, and Growing Up Too Soon Fiction_Gift_Guide foster kid Anne Shirley finallyNo one could have imagined how as a child Beverly Engel could have managed to become who she is todayan internationally known expert on abuse recovery and the best selling author of twenty two self help books. This is the raw, candid story of how she made her way in the world in spite of her mothers neglect, unreasonable expectations and constant criticism; in spite of being sexually abused, first at four years old and then at nine; and in spite of