Turning Stones by Marc Parent

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	• Turning Stones: My Days and Nights with Children at Risk: A Caseworker's Story Marc Parent, Anna Quindlen (foreword) Ballantine Books, 1998 - 400 pages average customer review:based on 187 reviews view larger image
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Turning Stones by Marc Parent

In the book Turning Stones, Marc Parent describes his real life experiences working for Emergency Children's Services. He described his own life situations as well as what was happening inside the office. He told of eight horrifying stories that he had to witness while working his four years at this company. He displayed his feelings very well and made you feel like you were involved in the cases. He does this by explaing what everyone he was around acted like and looked like. He uses great dialogue to show the conversations that took place. He makes the reader feel for the families and the social workers. He then continues on to describe why he named the book Turing Stones, which is because of a story that he was told at a very young age. He descibes how these could so easily happen anywhere, not just in New York City. At the end, he emphasizes how all of the cases he was involved in impacted his life. He still feels for a little boy who starved to death because of not being removed one night. He then goes on to descibe his family and what he is accomplishing today. Overall, the book was very breath-taking and realistic. It made the reader realize what social workers have to go through on a day to day basis. K.H. & J.J.

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Turning Heads

I have never experienced a literary work quite like this before. It caused me a myriad of emotions as I progressed through the lives of the children Marc Parent encountered throughout his four years as a social worker in New York City. Each true story is painted with rich detail producing a lifelike picture in my mind as each plot unfolded. It made me as a reader examine my own life and how I think about the parts of the world that are so real yet with which I have little or no contact. I recommend everyone read this heartclenching gutrenching in your face look at the reality of the lives under the staircase. LM JAC CP

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Everyday Can Be A Tragedy

In the lives of children around our country everday is not always ice cream and amusement parks rather they are faced with rats and glass filled jelly. Marc Parent expresses the range of emotions that children and social workers face everyday. He has written a well organized and captivating collection of his past experiences with Child Welfare Services. He presents a shocking reality of the conditions in which people live in and how the state must protect those children that are unable to defend themselves. In most cases the children do not even know that they need to be rescued while others are reaching out for anyone, just a voice on the other line to keep one's sanity. I feel that this is a book worth taking the time out to sit down and read. It presents a strong and lasting message. In addition, Parent keeps the tempo of the book up so that you don't want to put it down.

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Disturbing, but Valuable

Marc Parent is a caseworker in New York. He has written here some very interesting and disturbing cases he has dealt with. Child abuse is always a difficult topic to read about but Parent doesn't condemn the parents in his stories. He gives you the whole story and lets you form your own opinion. Turning Stones is well written and very much a page-turner. AL

Turning Stones

Marc Parent did an excellent job describing the lifestyle of an everyday social worker. I have gained a respect for these social workers that I have never had before. This book makes you realize what a person can go through physically and emotionally handling these kinds of situations. Parent used a very interesting technique writing his book. He not only described his cases but he also went into detail about his everyday life and the people surrounding him. He made you want to not put the book down and keep turning the pages to find out what was going to happen next. Overall, this is a wonderful book and I recommend it to anyone who is the least bit curious about what exactly goes on behind some of the closed doors in New York City.

E.B.

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