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Whatchareadin (174 KP) rated Home in Books

May 10, 2018  
Home
Home
Brenda Kearns | 2014
6
6.0 (1 Ratings)
Book Rating
Home is a YA novel. This story was short and sweet.

Allie is 14 years old and she is about to enter her 17th foster home. Her only goal is to get back to her mother. She, along with her younger twin siblings, Luke and Madeline just want to stay together at home. Allie tries every trick in her foster care book to get them home as soon as possible. At first, her tricks work, but she will soon learn that home may not be all that it's cracked up to be.

This was a really short book and a quick read. I think I finished the whole thing in about 3 hours. This is a great book for any young person who is struggling in foster care. No matter how hard or difficult things are back at home, that is where kids in foster care prefer to be. Not all foster homes are as great as the one Allie has just landed in, but she has gotten pretty lucky this time.

I encourage all young people to read this book.

**I received this book from Story Cartel in exchange for my review.**
  
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ClareR (5551 KP) rated Hunt for the Wilderpeople (2016) in Movies

Jun 23, 2019  
Hunt for the Wilderpeople (2016)
Hunt for the Wilderpeople (2016)
2016 | Action, Comedy
9
9.3 (7 Ratings)
Movie Rating
I was channel surfing (or hopping?) and chanced upon this film, and I consider myself to be very fortunate that I did. It’s a gloriously quirky, funny film of a foster child running off (by accident, I think) with his foster father.

His foster mother dies suddenly, and he knows that he’ll be put back in to a system that doesn’t care for him, so he runs away into the New Zealand bush/ forests, where his foster father finds him. Social Services start a manhunt for them, under the pretext that they know what’s best for him. They haven’t been great with him in the past - he has earned himself a reputation of a troubled child. Something which his foster mother seems to have loved out of him. She is a lovely character. As is the gloriously grumpy Sam Neill.

No description I can write can give this film its true credit - you’ll just have to watch it for yourself. It’s fantastic.
  
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ClareR (5551 KP) Jun 23, 2019

You could you could probably get it in All4 online? Worth a try?
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Eilidh G Clark (177 KP) Jun 23, 2019

I'll have a look. Fab.