Princess of the Row – Love on Skid Row
In Van Maximillian Carlson?s Princess of the Row, the model of familial loves is boiled down to a...
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The Great Gilly Hopkins – Finding Family
The Great Gilly Hopkins is a story about the meaning of family. [It is] based on the long-popular YA book by Katherine Paterson (which won a National Book Award and a Newbery Honor).
Hunt for the Wilderpeople – Foster Family Values
In Ecclesiastes 4:9 we read: ?Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their toil. For if they fall, one will lift up the other; but woe to one who is alone and falls and does not have another to help.? (NRSV) Hunt for the Wilderpeople is a cinematic version of those words.
Jack of the Red Hearts – Finding Self by Caring for Others
In Jack of the Red Hearts, a cast off from the foster system finds a place to belong through dishonesty and ends up finding a sense of self and responsibility and helping another person to move to a better life.