The Angry Little Girl
A Story about One Little Girl’s Journey through Foster Care to Happiness
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One day after a bad time with her birth mother, the police came. The police took her birth mother to the hospital because she was ill. The police took the little girl away to a new place called a foster home. This made the little girl scared. The anger in her belly grew. What could she do? She was only little. 7
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About the Book
The Angry Little Girl is a book written to validate the loss, anger and lack of control children in foster care can feel. It is written through the eyes of a seven year old that was in foster care for 4 years before being adopted. It discusses how unsafe she felt moving from one foster home to another and it gives in-sight to how even a safe environment can feel scary when you are little. It also validates feelings of loss and rejection that arose from each move. This book is written to help children in foster care understand it is ok to be angry sometimes and sometimes life is not fair. It is not the fault of the children in foster care, they are little. It is the job of the adults to make good decisions and keep them safe.
About the Author
Naomi Andrews is an adoptive mother of four children. All four children are from the foster care in the state of Massachusetts. Children in foster care often have numerous disruptions in their lives. When her children came, they carried hurts in their hearts that many adults would struggle to come to terms with. . Grieving is hard work for an adult with a full range of coping skills, imagine being seven. Her book is written through the eyes of her youngest daughter. Full of anger, so big, that at times it scared her. Few books were available to help children validate the loss and rejection she was feeling, so she wrote her own. “Now I feel it is time to help other children in carrying around the same hurts. It has been a blessing to have my children come into my family.” – Naomi Andrews