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Sky's Story

Thrown Away Children, Book 5

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Sky's Story

By: Louise Allen
Narrated by: Melanie Crawley
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When Sky and her older sister Avril were taken into care, the social workers knew this was a case like no other. Raised by unhinged parents who hoarded compulsively, creating horrific conditions no child should live in, the two girls arrived at foster carer Louise's home, neglected, malnourished and indoctrinated. Louise had to draw on all of her experience as one of Britain's leading foster carers to rehabilitate and change the course of their lives.

But with constant attempts to thwart her work, Louise ends up under siege in her own home. Will she succeed or is their fate sealed forever?

©2022 Louise Allen (P)2022 W. F. Howes Ltd Adoption & Fostering Adventurers, Explorers & Survival Children's Studies Parenting & Families Relationships Social Sciences Fostering
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Love these stories of foster care kids, really hits home and so very true. Great to listen to clean stories that’s not all about sex. Thank you for the great stories.

Good book !

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It’s hard for my mind and my heart to accept that parents like Hannah and John could treat their children they way they did hHNK GOHH made them live in such FILTHY circumstances. Unless you are living in the hell yourself, or know someone who is, the majority of us remain ignorant and insulated, not noticing the kids around us who may be trapped in a home of horrors.

THANK GOD for caring people like Louise and Lloyd who are willing to take troubled kids from homes like Sky’s and Avril’s was? Where’s would they have landed? Who would have cared for these two girls as lovingly Louise and Lloyd did, even with all the upheaval it cost to them and their already established children? I know I certainly wouldn’t be able to stand up and say, “I’ll take them on!”

Take them on they did — body odor and strange behaviors they did! The behaviors and deficits in the girls’ social skills made them hard enough to work with and to love, but add in a CRAZY, manipulating mother like Hannah, and after two days, I would have been in the phone with the Social Worker on Day Two screaming to take the kids and to find the girls a new placement or to send them packing off to a child’s care facility — ANYWHERE but in MY home!

Louise and Lloyd have my greatest admiration for their courage, strength and their willingness to keep working through each of the many problems that kept arising because of the shear meanness and interference from the girls’ mother Hannah, whom one would THINK would have the best interest of her children at heart.

I don’t know what suddenly woke Hannah up, but I was happy to read in the Epilogue, that SOMETHING shook her up, made her realize what she was doing to two innocent children, and begin to make huge strides to change her life drastically. I wonder if it was too late for the girls to go on and live a “normal” life and be fully functioning members of society.

It sounds as if Avril is doing well and is on tract to being licensed as a massage therapist. But, little is said about Sky and her future. What has become of her? I’d love to know what has happened with Sky as she has aged.

Thank you to both Louise and Lloyd, and to ALL the foster parents who take on the “tough kids.” May God bless each and every one of you! You may not be able to change the world with your hard work and the LOVE your pour into these kids, but to the kids you are able to help, you change THEIR WORLD!💕

The narrator of this book did a fantastic job.

I would highly recommend this book to anyone.

THANK GOD FOR THE LOUISE & LLOYDS OF THIS WORLD…!

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Loved it all. It was a great story. She dealt very well with Sky and realized Sky needed more.

I was a foster parent doing the “Hard” kids too. Loved it and enjoy hearing stories from other foster parents

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This story will have you listening with your mouth wide open, head shaking & blood boiling. I know that’s how it is with ALL of The Thrown Away Children books. This one had me aghast at the audacity of this birth mom. Grrrr.

And the narrator, Melanie Crawley, is absolutely wonderful to listen to.

WELL DONE!
Both of you.

Agonizing Twists & Turns

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As always, Louise Allen's books are so well written, so raw and so well narrated. As a devoted listener to all of her books, I'm never disappointed. Highly recommend the listen!

A very touching story.

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real life story
a lot to think about
children rights need to be recognized

great seri

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as always, her books are great and inspiring. thankful this author shares her experiences for us

another great book

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I like the stories told by foster carers like Louise Allen and applaud their work. I don’t know how they do it but they manage to save lives of children who are having a very hard time.

Sad story told well

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could've done without the incredibly rude fatphobia towards a five year old child. I hope Sky never reads this.

decent but distracted

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