TY - SOUND AU - Bridge,Andrew AU - Drummond,David TI - Hope's boy: a memoir SN - 9781400106066 AV - HV883.C2 B75 2008ab U1 - 362.73/3092B 22 PY - 2008/// CY - [Old Saybrook, Conn.] PB - Tantor Audio KW - Bridge, Andrew. KW - Foster children KW - California KW - Biography KW - Foster home care KW - Foster parents KW - Audiobooks N1 - Title from container; Unabridged; Compact discs; Duration: 10:30:00; Read by David Drummond N2 - When Andrew Bridge was seven years old, he and his mother slid deeper and deeper into poverty, until they were reduced to scavenging for food in trash bins. Welfare officials did little more than threaten to take Andrew away, until a social worker arrived with a police escort and did just that, while his mother screamed on the sidewalk. This began Andrew's descent into the foster care system - 'care' being a terrible irony, as he received almost none for the next eleven years ER -