title: The Mommy Orphanage
author: Cheryl Wilder Krass
description: "Making sense of their adoptions takes many years for most children. This book is a unique twist on the usual adoption story. It enhances the feelings of belonging for children who were adopted, while focusing on the enduring love between mother and child - a love which transcends race, distance and biology." -- <i>Dianne Campbell Kuchlak, Attachment and Bonding Specialist</i><br /><br />"Check out the new children's book 'The Mommy Orphanage,' by Cheryl Wilder Krass and Emily Krass (Alexemi, $14.95). The mother-daughter team ponders a world where children visit a 'mommy orphanage' to select their parent. Emily, who was adopted from China as a baby, thought of the idea. Kudos to mom Cheryl for not only writing the book, but also for crediting her daughter as an author." -- <i>Kelly Haramis, Chicago Tribune, July 20, 2008</i>
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  Also by Cathy Glass
  
  Damaged
  
  Hidden
  
  Cut
  
  The Saddest Girl in the World
  
  Happy Kids
  
  The Girl in the Mirror
  
  I Miss Mummy
  
  Mummy Told Me Not to Tell
  
  My Dad’s a Policeman (a Quick Reads novel)
  
  Run, Mummy, Run
  
  The Night the Angels Came
  
  Happy Adults
  
  A Baby’s Cry
  
  Happy Mealtimes For Kids
  
  Another Forgotten Child
  
  Please Don’t Take My Baby
  
    
    
    
  
   _Contents_
  
  [ _Cover_](../Text/Cover.html)
  
   _Title Page_
  
   _Also by Cathy Glass_
  
   _Acknowledgements_
  
   _Epigraph_
  
   _Prologue_
  
    
  
  PART ONE
  
    
  
  1 Desperate
  
  2 Escape
  
  3 Concerned
  
  4 Too Late to Help
  
  5 Family
  
  6 Neglect
  
  7 No Chance to Say Goodbye
  
  8 A Good Friend
  
  9 ‘I Hate You All!’
  
    
  
  PART TWO
  
    
  
  10 ‘A Family of My Own’
  
  11 Lucy
  
  12 No Appetite
  
  13 ‘Do Our Best’
  
  14 Control
  
  15 ‘I Don’t Want Her Help!’
  
  16 Testing the Boundaries
  
  17 Progress
  
  18 ‘I’d Rather Have You’
  
  19 Happy Holiday
  
  20 ‘Will You Love Me?’
  
  21 ‘No One Wants Me’
  
  22 A New Year, a New Social Worker
  
  23 ‘She’s OK for a Girl’
  
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