Cris Beam

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1) To the end of June: the intimate life of American foster care

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Beam, Cris

Publisher

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Language

English

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Book, eBook, Kindle

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An intimate, authoritative look at the foster care system that examines why it is failing the kids it is supposed to protect and what can be done to change it.

2) I am J

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Beam, Cris

Publisher

Little, Brown

Pub. Date

2011.

Language

English

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J, who feels like a boy mistakenly born as a girl, runs away from his best friend who has rejected him and the parents he thinks do not understand him when he finally decides that it is time to be who he really is.

3) I feel you: the surprising power of extreme empathy

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Beam, Cris

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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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English

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"A cogent, gorgeous examination of empathy, illuminating the myths, the science, and the power behind this transformative emotion. Empathy has become a gaping fault line in American culture. Pioneering programs aim to infuse our legal and educational systems with more empathic thinking, even as pundits argue over whether we should bother empathizing with our political opposites at all. Meanwhile, we are inundated with the buzzily termed "empathic...