New York: Atheneum, (2008). First edition - The story of a young girl who spent nine years of her life in fourteen different foster homes where "painful memories of being taken away from her home quickly become consumed by real-life horrors, where Ashley is juggled between caseworkers, shuffled from school to school, and forced to endure manipulative,humiliating treatment from a very abusive foster family." Through some caring volunteers, supportive adoptive parents, and her own determination to survive, she finds the courage to succeed - and in working to help other children who face the same terrible circumstances. 297 pp plus a note to readers and a section of photographs.