

Three More Words
Author: Ashley Rhodes-Courter
Narrator: Ashley Rhodes-Courter
Unabridged: 8 hr 36 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
Published: 03/07/2017
Author: Ashley Rhodes-Courter
Narrator: Ashley Rhodes-Courter
Unabridged: 8 hr 36 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
Published: 03/07/2017
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.
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
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
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
“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