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Know My Place

By Eve Ainsworth
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Amy's journey through the foster-care system captures a teenager's yearning for belonging and stability. After her long-term foster placement ends, she is placed with the Dawson family. Tentatively, she begins to trust them, but a phone call threatens to undo her hopes for a permanent home. This moving story explores resilience, trust, and the search for family.
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Format: Paperback / softback
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Particularly suitable for readers aged 13 and above with a reading age of 8, this young adult novel sensitively addresses themes relevant to teenagers navigating personal and emotional challenges.

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A teenager's longing for family and a place to call home is poignantly portrayed in this heartfelt and ultimately uplifting story of life in the foster-care system.

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A teenager’s longing for family and a place to call home is poignantly portrayed in this heartfelt and ultimately uplifting story of life in the foster-care system.


Feeling betrayed when her long-term foster placement breaks down, Amy is sent to live with a new family, the Dawsons. Although initially reluctant to trust them, she eventually starts to let down her guard. But just when it seems like she’s found her forever family, she hears a telephone call that suggests things aren’t going to work out. Will Amy be abandoned again – or does she dare hope that she might finally have found home?

Particularly suitable for readers aged 13+ with a reading age of 8.

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"An intense, heartrending story of a child searching for a forever family" – Armadillo Magazine. "A perfect addition to the school library" – The Letterpress Project. "Just brilliant – the best book I've read about a young person in care" – Annie Everall OBE. "Beautiful, heartbreaking… so delicately written, sharing what it’s like in the mind of a foster kid." – A Paper Girl A Paper Town.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781781129807

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 01 July 2021

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Barrington Stoke Ltd

Contributors:

  • Cover design or artwork by Helen Crawford-White

Audience: Children, Teenage

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 10.0mm

Width: 130.0mm

Height: 198.0mm

Weight: 210g

Pages: 128

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Children's Fiction Children’s, Teenage and Educational Dyslexia-Friendly Books Eve Ainsworth Fiction Happiness & Mental Health Young Adult

About the Author

Eve Ainsworth is an award-winning teen author and experienced school speaker, with a background working for secondary schools in pastoral and child protection roles. She is the author of several best-selling novels including the award-winning and Carnegie Medal nominated 7 Days.

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