Orphan Justice

Orphan Justice

Author: Johnny Carr

Publisher: B&H Publishing Group

Published: 2013-03-01

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 1433677970

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Christians are clearly called to care for orphans, a group so close to the heart of Jesus. In reality, most of the 153 million orphaned and vulnerable children in the world do not need to be adopted, and not everyone needs to become an adoptive parent. However, there are other very important ways to help beyond adoption. Indeed, caring for orphaned and vulnerable children requires us to care about related issues from child trafficking and HIV/AIDS to racism and poverty. Too often, we only discuss or theologize the issues, relegating the responsibility to governments. No one can do everything, but everyone can do something. Based on his own personal journey toward pure religion, Johnny Carr moves readers from talking about global orphan care to actually doing something about it in Orphan Justice. Combining biblical truth with the latest research, this inspiring book: • investigates the orphan care and adoption movement in the U.S. today • examines new data on the needs of orphaned and vulnerable children • connects “liberal issues” together as critical aspects or orphan care • discovers the role of the church worldwide in meeting these needs • develops a tangible, sustainable action plan using worldwide partnerships • fleshes out the why, what, and how of global orphan care • offers practical steps to getting involved and making a difference


Rethinking Orphanages for the 21st Century

Rethinking Orphanages for the 21st Century

Author: Richard B. McKenzie

Publisher: SAGE

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 344

ISBN-13: 0761914447

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Exploring the only option for a growing army of children who cannot be placed for adoption or fostering, this text demonstrates from a large-scale survey of orphan alumni that they outpace the general population in most areas of life.


My Name is Not Friday

My Name is Not Friday

Author: Jon Walter

Publisher: Scholastic Inc.

Published: 2016-01-05

Total Pages: 331

ISBN-13: 0545863716

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A gorgeously written account of a freeborn black boy sold into slavery during the Civil War; think 12 Years a Slave for young adults. Well-mannered Samuel and his mischievous younger brother Joshua are free black boys living in an orphanage during the end of the Civil War. Samuel takes the blame for Joshua's latest prank, and the consequence is worse than he could ever imagine. He's taken from the orphanage to the South, given a new name -- Friday -- and sold into slavery. What follows is a heartbreaking but hopeful account of Samuel's journey from freedom, to captivity, and back again.


The Home

The Home

Author: Richard Mckenzie

Publisher:

Published: 1996-01-25

Total Pages: 248

ISBN-13:

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A memoir of the author's years spent in an orphanage in North Carolina in the 1950s, presenting it as a place which, while lacking hugs and kisses, provides a stable home that turned out optimistic, well-adjusted young adults.


The Effects of Early Social-Emotional and Relationship Experience on the Development of Young Orphanage Children

The Effects of Early Social-Emotional and Relationship Experience on the Development of Young Orphanage Children

Author: The St. Petersburg-USA Orphanage Research Team

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2009-04-27

Total Pages: 300

ISBN-13: 1444309692

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Undertaken at orphanages in Russia, this study tests the role of early social and emotion experience in the development of children. Children were exposed to either multiple caregivers who performed routine duties in a perfunctory manner with minimal interaction or fewer caregivers who were trained to engage in warm, responsive, and developmentally appropriate interactions during routine care. Engaged and responsive caregivers were associated with substantial improvements in child development and these findings provide a rationale for making similar improvements in other institutions, programs, and organizations.


The Orphan Master's Son

The Orphan Master's Son

Author: Adam Johnson

Publisher: Random House Incorporated

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 465

ISBN-13: 0812992792

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The son of a singer mother whose career forcibly separated her from her family and an influential father who runs an orphan work camp, Pak Jun Do rises to prominence using instinctive talents and eventually becomes a professional kidnapper and romantic rival to Kim Jong Il. By the author of Parasites Like Us.


Oddfellow's Orphanage

Oddfellow's Orphanage

Author: Emily Winfield Martin

Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers

Published: 2012-01-24

Total Pages: 146

ISBN-13: 0375986359

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New York Times bestselling author Emily Winfield Martin brings a strange and wonderful place to life with her unique style of both art and writing. What do an onion-headed boy, a child-sized hedgehog, and a tattooed girl have in common? They are all orphans at Oddfellow's Orphanage! This unusual and charming chapter book tells an episodic story that follows a new orphan, Delia, as she discovers the delights of her new home. From classes in Cryptozoology and Fairy Tale Studies to trips to the circus, from Annual Hair Cutting Day to a sea monster-sighting field trip, things at Oddfellows are anything but ordinary . . . except when it comes to friendships. And in that, Oddfellows is like any other school where children discover what they mean to each other while learning how big the world really is.


Orphanology: Awakening to Gospel-Centered Adoption and Orphan Care: Awakening to Gospel-Centered Adoption and Orphan Care

Orphanology: Awakening to Gospel-Centered Adoption and Orphan Care: Awakening to Gospel-Centered Adoption and Orphan Care

Author: Tony Merida

Publisher: New Hope Publishers (AL)

Published: 2011-04

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781563096631

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Orphanology unveils the grassroots movement that's engaged in a comprehensive response to serve hundreds of millions of orphans and "functionally parentless" children.You'll see a breadth of ways to care with biblical perspective and reasons why we must. Heartwarming, personal stories and vivid illustrations from a growing network of families, churches, and organizations that cross culture show how to respond to God's mandate. The book empowers:- churches--to plan preaching, teaching, ministering, missions, funding adoption, supporting orphans;- individuals and families--to overcome challenges and uncertainties;- every believer--to gain insights to help orphans in numerous ways. Discover how to - adopt;- assist orphans in transition;- engage in foster care;- partner with faith-based fostering agencies;- become orphan hosts.Along with their families' adoption stories, Merida and Morton give steps for action and features on churches doing orphan ministry, faith-based children's homes, orphan-hosting groups, and other resources.


Suffer the Little Children

Suffer the Little Children

Author: Frances Reilly

Publisher:

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 381

ISBN-13: 9780750531924

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For over 13 years, Frances Reilly experienced institutionalized cruelty at the hands of the nuns of the Poor Sisters of Nazareth Convent in Belfast. Writing with honesty and integrity, Reilly presents a moving account of her childhood suffering and her resolution to survive the tortures of her life.


Orphan Island

Orphan Island

Author: Laurel Snyder

Publisher: HarperCollins

Published: 2017-05-30

Total Pages: 162

ISBN-13: 0062443437

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A National Book Award Longlist title! "A wondrous book, wise and wild and deeply true." —Kelly Barnhill, Newbery Medal-winning author of The Girl Who Drank the Moon "This is one of those books that haunts you long after you read it. Thought-provoking and magical." —Rick Riordan, author of the Percy Jackson series In the tradition of modern-day classics like Sara Pennypacker's Pax and Lois Lowry's The Giver comes a deep, compelling, heartbreaking, and completely one-of-a-kind novel about nine children who live on a mysterious island. On the island, everything is perfect. The sun rises in a sky filled with dancing shapes; the wind, water, and trees shelter and protect those who live there; when the nine children go to sleep in their cabins, it is with full stomachs and joy in their hearts. And only one thing ever changes: on that day, each year, when a boat appears from the mist upon the ocean carrying one young child to join them—and taking the eldest one away, never to be seen again. Today’s Changing is no different. The boat arrives, taking away Jinny’s best friend, Deen, replacing him with a new little girl named Ess, and leaving Jinny as the new Elder. Jinny knows her responsibility now—to teach Ess everything she needs to know about the island, to keep things as they’ve always been. But will she be ready for the inevitable day when the boat will come back—and take her away forever from the only home she’s known? "A unique and compelling story about nine children who live with no adults on a mysterious island. Anyone who has ever been scared of leaving their family will love this book" (from the Brightly.com review, which named Orphan Island a best book of 2017).