Three More Words, Ashley RhodesCourter
Three More Words, Ashley RhodesCourter
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Three More Words

Author: Ashley Rhodes-Courter

Narrator: Ashley Rhodes-Courter

Unabridged: 8 hr 36 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 03/07/2017

Synopsis

Ashley Rhodes-Courter spent a harrowing nine years of her life in fourteen different foster homes. Her memoir, Three Little Words, captivated audiences everywhere and went on to become a New York Times bestseller. Now Ashley reveals the nuances of life after foster care: college and its assorted hijinks, including meeting “the one.” Marriage, which began with a beautiful wedding on a boat that was almost hijacked (literally) by some biological family members. Having kids—from fostering children and the heartbreak of watching them return to destructive environments, to the miraculous joy of blending biological and adopted offspring.Whether she’s overcoming self-image issues, responding to calls asking for her to run for Senate, or dealing with continuing drama from her biological family, Ashley Rhodes-Courter never fails to impress or inspire with her authentic voice and uplifting message of hope.

About Ashley Rhodes-Courter

Ashley Rhodes-Courter has been featured in Teen People, the New York Times, USA Today, and Glamour, as well as on Good Morning America. Her first memoir, Three Little Words, began as an essay, which won a writing contest for high school students, and was published in the New York Times Magazine. A graduate of Eckerd College and a champion for the reformation of the foster-care system, Ashley speaks internationally on foster care and adoption.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Peg (Marianna)

I first read Ashley Rhodes-Courters first book Three Little Words while I was working as a high school library media specialist. This is a book that tells a horrific story of a young girl growing up in Florida's foster care system in the mid-80s and early 90s. It was assigned to me as a consideratio......more

Goodreads review by Lois R. Gross

For those who read Rhodes Coulter's first book, this is required reading. Not only has Ashley lived an exemplary life, she has brought her life, burnished by the horribly flawed Florida foster care system by becoming a foster parent, an adoptive parent, and a biological parent herself. Her husband.......more

Goodreads review by Logan Ross

Encouraging and educational Working in the foster care system myself, this book has given me a chance to see the system from another point of view allowing me to be more aware in my career.......more

Goodreads review by Jennifer

Man, oh man. This book makes me want to be a foster parent. I can't actually do it. But I wish I could. There is just NO REASON that children should be subjected to the type of treatment that is described in these pages.......more

Quotes

“Ashley Rhodes-Courter is triumphant in her quest to overcome insurmountable odds. I celebrate her courage to seek out the best in humanity in spite of its failings.” Victoria Rowell, New York Times bestselling author

“The author’s ability to form intelligent, open-minded conclusions about her traumatic childhood demonstrates her remarkable control and insight, and although there are plenty of wrenching moments, she succeeds not in attracting pity but in her stated intention, of drawing attention to the children who currently share the plight that she herself overcame.” Publishers Weekly

“This gifted young writer’s moving and eye-opening story will especially appeal to fans of Jeannette Walls’s The Glass Castle and David Pelzer’s autobiographical books…This memoir lends a powerful voice to thousands of ‘boomerang kids’ who repeatedly wind up back in foster care.” School Library Journal

“Rhodes-Courter pulls no punches; her no-filter depiction of the foster-care system, her biological family, and herself is fiercely real.” Horn Book

“Compelling…Though Rhodes-Courter has been hurt and disappointed many times, she has an admirable capacity for love and forgiveness.” Junior Library Guild

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