Good reads

Lately, now that I have pretty much zero time, I have been devouring books.  Makes sense.
Not fiction.
Child phsycology for dealing with foster and orphan children, sexually abused, abandoned, etc.
True stories about abandoned children.

I submit to you two books that you must read.  I purchased them used, very inexpensive, from www.betterworldbooks.com


Odyssey of a Romanian Street Child

You MUST read this book. A true-to-life picture of the reality the street children produced by communism face. This book follows a young man who meets a Christian who changed his life forever with simple compassion.




The Boy from Baby House 10

This book involves a Christian young woman as well.  You wouldn't know it right away, because she doesn't belong to "our" denomination.  But she is definitely a saved Christian.  She just doesn't know anything about denominations.  She instinctively knew she should be giving back after she met Christ, and that is how she met this little boy... abandoned and set aside as retarded in the orphanage and asylum system, his only crime was to be born with a problem with his legs.  His story is incredible, and his level of intelligence at a young age was astonishing.  This book is not written from a Christian perspective at all, but it is truly reality.

That's where I'm at.  I earnestly desire to understand the reality my kids live in.