I am still reading Three little words by Ashley Rhodes and what just happened is Ashley switched to another home but this time the woman is evil. The Mosses are foster parents that pretended that they are nice and caring, but really once the workers leave they are mean and abuse their kids. The only reason that they have foster kids is because they get paid to take care of them. They physically abuse the kids that they have and they live in very poor conditions with no air conditioning and small rooms that many of them stay in at the same time. Any time a kids does something wrong they are abused by being spanked or having to run or having to do things and if they can't complete the tasks then they beat them. Also if they say something wrong then the mother pours hot sauce into their mouths. The kids all have to share clothes and they all only get 6 inches of water to bathe everyone in (at the time the Mosses had 14 children staying with them). This was a horrible experience for Ashley and her brother and they are scared for life from this. The case workers never believed Ashley and so the Mosses got away with it. Mean while Ashley has gone to two different houses after that and her and her brother are now separated again. Ashley just got to start visiting her mother again and she believed that she could live with her again, but then they found drugs in her mothers system and Ashley is never allowed to live with her again. Ashley starts to believe that it is her brothers fault that she can' t see her mother anymore because her mother told her that Ashley belongs to her and Luke belongs to his father. This is what got Ashley and Luke separated again.

At first in the story Ashley was a sweat innocent child that was put in to a rough life that no one should go through. But now over time Ashley has started ti become meaner and meaner. She has started to realize what is actually happening to her and it is changing the way that she acts now. She is mean to her brother that she loves so much, she hits him and pulls his hair because she thinks that he is keeping her from her mother. Also she is now starting to boss her foster parents around and give them sass. She doesn't listen to when people are talking to her and she thinks that she knows best. Not having a stable home is now affecting the way that Ashley is acting and is treating others. She has never gotten attention from anyone that cares for her and she is always striving to be noticed.

This book really connects to the whole world. So many kids are being out in foster care all over the world and we don't even notice it. These children have to live with the fact that they have never had a home just to themselves and their blood family, many of them have gone through rough lives like Ashley and most of the world isn't paying any attention to it. There are about 400,000 children in foster care in just America and this problem is world wide. The average ages of kids in foster care is 9-10 years old and the older ones are 11-15 years old. It is hard to imagine that so many kids in the world are in Foster care and we haven't even though about it.
Foster care image.Ashley Rhodes image.

     The book that I am reading is three little words. What is happening right now is Ashley and her brother Luke are being put in another home. This is happening because their grandpa just died and her step-grandma isn't allowed to keep them because she isn't related to the kids. So she lied to the worker who is putting the kids into new child care, and she told her that the grandpa was fine and she is going to wait till he gets better to become a foster parent and keep the kids. But this was not true because the grandpa had been shot. Then the woman who finds new homes for the kids, Ava Williams, Finds out that the grandpa is not working and she takes the kids and outs them in a new home in Florida. This makes Ashley and Luke really upset because they don't want to leave another home again, Adele told the kids that they are just going to go to Florida to visit their mom and then they will come back to Adele. For Ashley's 6th birthday she gets to go back to Adele's house and she lives there for a little while and then she moves on to somewhere else.
     I can't even imagine what it would be like to not have a stable home and have everyone lie to you all the time. Ashley has lived in so many different homes already and she is only 6 years old. A child shouldn't have to go through that much pain of not having a stable home and not having just one person take care of them. Also everyone is lying to her all the time about her mother and where she is going to live next. They keep telling her that she is going to see her mother soon and that she is going to visit her, when this is not the truth. Ashley grew up with her mother and she doesn't know all the bad things she has done just the good things, so Ashley misses her mother very much.
      The Author of this book is Ashley Rhodes. Since this book is a memoir that means that Ashley is writing about her own life. Ashley has gone through everything that is written in this book, it is all true. She wrote the book on her life growing up as a little girl and having to live in foster care. Ashley Rhodes has not written any other books but this book that she did write was a remarkable New York Times best seller. I am excited to read more of this book.