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  • Billy Had to Move: A Foster Care Story

  • Growing with Love, Book 3
  • By: Theresa Ann Fraser
  • Narrated by: Barbara Rich
  • Length: 30 mins
  • 2.5 out of 5 stars (2 ratings)

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Billy Had to Move: A Foster Care Story

By: Theresa Ann Fraser
Narrated by: Barbara Rich
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Summary

Child Protection Services have been involved with Billy and his mother for some time now. He has been happily settled in a kinship placement with his grandmother and enjoys his pet cat, interacting with neighbors, and even taking piano lessons. As the story unfolds, Billy's grandmother has unexpectedly passed away and so the story of Billy Had to Move begins.

Unfortunately, Billy's mother cannot be located. Mr. Murphy, Billy's social worker, places him in the foster home of Amy, Tim, and their baby "Colly". Billy experiences great loss resulting not only from his grandmother's death, but also the loss of the life he knew. Billy's inner journey therefore has also begun and with the help of Ms. Woods, a Play Therapist, there is hope.

Learn more about this book at TheresaFraser.com

From the Growing With Love series at Loving Healing Press.

©2011 Theresa Ann Fraser (P)2019 Theresa Ann Fraser
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Critic reviews

"This gem of a book gently frames the stages of a child's natural quest to make sense of his story. Fraser has created more than a teaching story: she generously offers a sacred space that compassionately holds and supports the multidimensional realities of our foster children and their birth families, our social workers and foster families, our teachers and child psychotherapists." (Gisela Schubach De Domenico, PhD, MFT, R-PTS)

"Billy Had To Move is a profound story about the complex issues children in foster care often face. Fraser provides important lessons for caregivers. The book gracefully introduces the sandtray and provides insight into how powerful the experience can be when the child has an opportunity to explore their trauma in the sandtray." (Mark E. Hulbert, MA, LLP)

"A wonderful addition to the bibliotherapy field. This is a much-needed book for foster care children to help them in adjusting to a new caregiver and placement. It offers a welcoming view of how children's worries and losses can be understood by a caring Play Therapist, in a warm and inviting setting." (Athena A. Drewes, PsyD, RPT-S; Director of Clinical Training, The Astor Home for Children, Poughkeepsie, NY)

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good story bad narrator

this story was good however the narrator is poor
voices was terrible
in future find better narrator
or make it just a ebook

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awful narrator

awful narrator. waste of money. might be ok for young children. never heard a narrator like this. sounded like Stephen hawkin

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