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BL
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983338
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b737708
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| Main Entry
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Rosen, Michael, (Michael Louis)
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What else but home : : seven boys and an American journey between the projects and the penthouse /\ Michael Rosen.
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1st ed.
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| Publication Statement
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New York :: PublicAffairs,, ©2009.
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1 online resource (xi, 363 pages)
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| ISBN
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0786746173
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: 1586485628
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: 9780786746170
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: 9781586485627
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9781586485627
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| Contents
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Introduction; 1; 2; 3; 4; 5; 6; 7; 8; 9; 10; 11; 12; 13; 14; Acknowledgments; About the Author;
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| Abstract
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Michael Rosen's seven-year-old son Ripton one day decided to join a pick-up game of baseball with some older kids in the park. At the end of the game Ripton asked his new friends if they wanted to come back to his house for snacks and Nintendo. Over time, five of the boys--all black and Hispanic, from the impoverished neighborhood across the park--became a fixture in the Rosens' home and eventually started referring to Michael and his wife Leslie as their parents. The boys began to see the Rosens as more than just an arcade of middle-class creature comforts; the Rosens began to learn the full st.
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Rosen, Michael, (Michael Louis)-- Family.
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Rosen, Michael, (Michael Louis)
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Extended families-- United States.
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Foster children-- United States, Biography.
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Foster parents-- United States, Biography.
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Social classes-- United States.
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BIOGRAPHY AUTOBIOGRAPHY-- Social Scientists Psychologists.
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Extended families.
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Families.
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Foster children.
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Foster parents.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE-- Public Policy-- Social Security.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE-- Public Policy-- Social Services Welfare.
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Social classes.
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United States.
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| Dewey Classification
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362.7092/27471
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| LC Classification
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HV881.R67 2009eb
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