22 best-selling fostering books like Too Scared to Cry: A True Short Story by Maggie Hartley

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Too Scared to Cry: A True Short Story

By: Maggie Hartley

4.43

Format: 60 pages, Kindle Edition

A digital short story from author and foster carer Maggie Hartley. Also contains a sneak peek chapt…

If you liked the fostering plot in Too Scared to Cry: A True Short Story by Maggie Hartley , here is a list of 22 books like this:

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1. Mummy’s Little Helper: The Heartrending True Story of a Young Girl Secretly Caring for Her Severely Disabled Mother

By: Casey Watson

4.43

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

The fifth book from bestselling author and specialist foster carer Casey Watson. A recent cens… read more

Similar categories in Casey Watson's Mummy’s Little Helper: The Heartrending True Story of a Young Girl Secretly Caring for Her Severely Disabled Mother book and Maggie Hartley's Too Scared to Cry: A True Short Story

  • biography
  • fostering
  • memoir
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2. The Little Princess: The shocking true story of a little girl imprisoned in her own home

By: Casey Watson

3.88

Format: 136 pages,

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Similar categories in Casey Watson's The Little Princess: The shocking true story of a little girl imprisoned in her own home book and Maggie Hartley's Too Scared to Cry: A True Short Story

  • fostering
  • memoir
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3. Taken

By: Rosie Lewis

3.75

Format: 132 pages, Paperback

Experienced foster carer, Rosie Lewis, takes on the heart-breaking case of Megan, a baby born with … read more

Similar categories in Rosie Lewis's Taken book and Maggie Hartley's Too Scared to Cry: A True Short Story

  • fostering
  • memoir
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4. I Miss Mummy

By: Cathy Glass

3.00

Format: 76 pages, Paperback

Alice, aged four, is snatched by her mother the day she is due to arrive at Cathy's house. Drug-dep… read more

Similar categories in Cathy Glass's I Miss Mummy book and Maggie Hartley's Too Scared to Cry: A True Short Story

  • biography
  • fostering
  • memoir

5. Crying for Help: The Shocking True Story of a Damaged Girl with a Dark Past

By: Casey Watson

3.90

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Two weeks after saying farewell to her first foster child, Casey is asked to look after Sophia, a t… read more

Similar categories in Casey Watson's Crying for Help: The Shocking True Story of a Damaged Girl with a Dark Past book and Maggie Hartley's Too Scared to Cry: A True Short Story

  • biography
  • fostering
  • memoir
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6. The Boy No One Loved

By: Casey Watson

4.35

Format: 104 pages,

'We're hungry,' his brother cried. 'We're hungry, Justin. Please find us some food.' Justin was fiv… read more

Similar categories in Casey Watson's The Boy No One Loved book and Maggie Hartley's Too Scared to Cry: A True Short Story

  • biography
  • fostering
  • memoir

7. Too Hurt to Stay: The True Story of a Troubled Boy’s Desperate Search for a Loving Home

By: Casey Watson

4.20

Format: 488 pages, Paperback

Eight-year-old Spencer takes himself to social services and demands to be taken into care. It's a d… read more

Similar categories in Casey Watson's Too Hurt to Stay: The True Story of a Troubled Boy’s Desperate Search for a Loving Home book and Maggie Hartley's Too Scared to Cry: A True Short Story

8. Runaway Girl

By: Casey Watson

3.95

Format: 315 pages, Paperback

Fourteen-year-old Adrianna arrives on Casey's doorstep with no possessions, no English, and no expl… read more

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9. The Night the Angels Came

By: Cathy Glass

4.15

Format: None pages, Paperback

When Cathy receives a call about a terminally ill widower terrified of leaving his son all alone in… read more

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10. A Life Lost: The shocking true story

By: Cathy Glass

4.54

Format: 313 pages, Kindle Edition

Jackson’s mother, Kayla, can no longer cope. Having tragically lost her husband and son, Kayla i… read more

Similar categories in Cathy Glass's A Life Lost: The shocking true story book and Maggie Hartley's Too Scared to Cry: A True Short Story

  • biography
  • fostering
  • memoir
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11. A Family Torn Apart: Three sisters and a dark secret that threatens to separate them for ever

By: Cathy Glass

4.30

Format: 316 pages, Kindle Edition

Angie, 6, and her sister, Polly, 4, are utterly distraught when they arrive at Cathy’s house, havin… read more

Similar categories in Cathy Glass's A Family Torn Apart: Three sisters and a dark secret that threatens to separate them for ever book and Maggie Hartley's Too Scared to Cry: A True Short Story

  • biography
  • fostering
  • memoir
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12. Unwanted: The care system failed Lara. Will she fail her own child?

By: Cathy Glass

4.41

Format: 312 pages, Kindle Edition

Lara was seven when her birth mother died from a drug overdose. With no extended family to look aft… read more

Similar categories in Cathy Glass's Unwanted: The care system failed Lara. Will she fail her own child? book and Maggie Hartley's Too Scared to Cry: A True Short Story

  • biography
  • fostering
  • memoir
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13. Little Girl Lost

By: Casey Watson

4.59

Format: 283 pages, Kindle Edition

The new fostering memoir from the Sunday Times bestselling author Casey Watson Six-year-old Amel… read more

Similar categories in Casey Watson's Little Girl Lost book and Maggie Hartley's Too Scared to Cry: A True Short Story

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14. Mummy, Please Don’t Leave

By: Casey Watson

4.46

Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition

A heartbreaking true story of a broken family and the foster carer who wants to keep them together…… read more

Similar categories in Casey Watson's Mummy, Please Don’t Leave book and Maggie Hartley's Too Scared to Cry: A True Short Story

  • fostering
  • memoir
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15. Finding Stevie

By: Cathy Glass

4.38

Format: 337 pages, Kindle Edition

Finding Stevie is a dark and poignant true story that highlights the dangers lurking online. When … read more

Similar categories in Cathy Glass's Finding Stevie book and Maggie Hartley's Too Scared to Cry: A True Short Story

  • biography
  • fostering
  • memoir
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16. Neglected: Scared, hungry and alone, Jamey craves affection

By: Cathy Glass

4.54

Format: 310 pages, Kindle Edition

Little Jamey, 2½ years old, is placed with experienced foster carer, Cathy Glass, as an emergency. … read more

Similar categories in Cathy Glass's Neglected: Scared, hungry and alone, Jamey craves affection book and Maggie Hartley's Too Scared to Cry: A True Short Story

  • biography
  • fostering
  • memoir
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17. I Just Want to Be Loved

By: Casey Watson

4.53

Format: 270 pages, Kindle Edition

After taking a few weeks off work, Casey is presented with a new foster 14-year-old Elise, whose M… read more

Similar categories in Casey Watson's I Just Want to Be Loved book and Maggie Hartley's Too Scared to Cry: A True Short Story

  • biography
  • fostering
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18. Billy's Story

By: Louise Allen

4.64

Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition

Foster care expert Louise has trouble on her hands from the first moment that 5-year-old Billy Blac… read more

Similar categories in Louise Allen's Billy's Story book and Maggie Hartley's Too Scared to Cry: A True Short Story

  • biography
  • fostering
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19. Too Young to Parent: One baby, one scared young mum, one social worker with an impossible decision

By: Carey Patterson

4.36

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

Carey Patterson, newly qualified Social Worker, is asked to see a young woman and her baby in a loc… read more

Similar categories in Carey Patterson's Too Young to Parent: One baby, one scared young mum, one social worker with an impossible decision book and Maggie Hartley's Too Scared to Cry: A True Short Story

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20. I Want My Daddy

By: Casey Watson

4.56

Format: 284 pages, Kindle Edition

A 5-year-old boy, Ethan, is brought to Casey in the middle of the night after the sudden death of h… read more

Similar categories in Casey Watson's I Want My Daddy book and Maggie Hartley's Too Scared to Cry: A True Short Story

  • fostering
Cover of Unsafe: Damian longs for home, but one man stands in his way by Cathy Glass

21. Unsafe: Damian longs for home, but one man stands in his way

By: Cathy Glass

4.33

Format: 299 pages, Kindle Edition

Damian longs for home, but one man stands in his way … Damian is just seven when he is taken in by… read more

Similar categories in Cathy Glass's Unsafe: Damian longs for home, but one man stands in his way book and Maggie Hartley's Too Scared to Cry: A True Short Story

  • biography
  • fostering
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22. Silenced

By: Rosie Lewis

4.52

Format: 331 pages, Kindle Edition

A family with a dark secret.A child who refuses to speak.Rosie must help her before it’s too late. … read more

Similar categories in Rosie Lewis's Silenced book and Maggie Hartley's Too Scared to Cry: A True Short Story

  • fostering
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23. Sparkle's Story: Thrown Away Children

By: Louise Allen

4.24

Format: 278 pages, Kindle Edition

Louise gets a frantic call to take in a damaged and destructive young girl. Separated from her sibl… read more

Similar categories in Louise Allen's Sparkle's Story: Thrown Away Children book and Maggie Hartley's Too Scared to Cry: A True Short Story

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24. Max and Mia's Story

By: Louise Allen

4.53

Format: 278 pages, Kindle Edition

From the bestselling author of the Thrown Away Children series comes another heartbreaking story of… read more

Similar categories in Louise Allen's Max and Mia's Story book and Maggie Hartley's Too Scared to Cry: A True Short Story

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25. Unspoken: The Silent Truth Behind My Lifelong Trauma as a Forced Adoptee (Stolen Lives)

By: Liz Harvie

4.37

Format: 227 pages, Kindle Edition

“I was two when the woman I called Mummy told me, ‘You came out of another mummy’s tummy.’ I grew u… read more

Similar categories in Liz Harvie's Unspoken: The Silent Truth Behind My Lifelong Trauma as a Forced Adoptee (Stolen Lives) book and Maggie Hartley's Too Scared to Cry: A True Short Story

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26. Marilyn's Story (Thrown Away Children)

By: Louise Allen

4.59

Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition

An unhealthy obsession and a dark secret spell trouble for Louise in a disturbing case... A baby… read more

Similar categories in Louise Allen's Marilyn's Story (Thrown Away Children) book and Maggie Hartley's Too Scared to Cry: A True Short Story

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27. The Girl With No Bedroom Door: A true short story

By: Angela Hart

4.12

Format: 36 pages, Kindle Edition

Fourteen-year-old Louise has been sleeping rough after running away from her previous foster home. … read more

Similar categories in Angela Hart's The Girl With No Bedroom Door: A true short story book and Maggie Hartley's Too Scared to Cry: A True Short Story

  • fostering
  • memoir
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28. Sky's Story

By: Louise Allen

4.48

Format: 284 pages, Kindle Edition

When Sky and her older sister Avril were taken into care, the social workers knew this was a case l… read more

Similar categories in Louise Allen's Sky's Story book and Maggie Hartley's Too Scared to Cry: A True Short Story

  • biography
  • fostering
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29. Jacob's Story

By: Louise Allen

4.40

Format: 261 pages, Kindle Edition

Officers from the RSPCA investigate reports of animal cruelty and neglect on a farm, only to discov… read more

Similar categories in Louise Allen's Jacob's Story book and Maggie Hartley's Too Scared to Cry: A True Short Story

  • biography
  • fostering
Cover of Too Scared to Cry: A True Short Story by Maggie Hartley

30. Too Scared to Cry: A True Short Story

By: Maggie Hartley

4.43

Format: 60 pages, Kindle Edition

A digital short story from author and foster carer Maggie Hartley. Also contains a sneak peek chapt… read more

Similar categories in Maggie Hartley's Too Scared to Cry: A True Short Story book and Maggie Hartley's Too Scared to Cry: A True Short Story

  • biography
  • fostering
  • memoir
Cover of Helpless: Are Riley and his two little siblings in danger? by Cathy Glass

31. Helpless: Are Riley and his two little siblings in danger?

By: Cathy Glass

4.44

Format: 315 pages, Kindle Edition

The 32nd fostering memoir from international bestseller Cathy Glass Struggling to cope with three … read more

Similar categories in Cathy Glass's Helpless: Are Riley and his two little siblings in danger? book and Maggie Hartley's Too Scared to Cry: A True Short Story

  • fostering

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