Twelve year-old Hollis Woods was abandoned at birth and spent her entire life moving from one foster home to another. Most of the families did not work out, and Hollis ended up running away several times. Josie Cahill, a retired art teacher takes Hollis in after her latest disaster. Josie encourages the talented Hollis to express herself with her pictures. Hollis's pictures tell the story of the family she stayed with the previous summer, the Regans. They wanted to adopt Hollis, but before they could, she ran away again. Steven Regan was critically injured in a car accident that Hollis thought was all her fault. When Josie begins to show signs of dementia, social workers intervene and remove Hollis once again. But by this time she's ready to be accepted as part of a permanent family - with the Regans -who did not give up on her.
Monday, September 1, 2008
Pictures of Hollis Woods by Patricia Reilly Giff
Twelve year-old Hollis Woods was abandoned at birth and spent her entire life moving from one foster home to another. Most of the families did not work out, and Hollis ended up running away several times. Josie Cahill, a retired art teacher takes Hollis in after her latest disaster. Josie encourages the talented Hollis to express herself with her pictures. Hollis's pictures tell the story of the family she stayed with the previous summer, the Regans. They wanted to adopt Hollis, but before they could, she ran away again. Steven Regan was critically injured in a car accident that Hollis thought was all her fault. When Josie begins to show signs of dementia, social workers intervene and remove Hollis once again. But by this time she's ready to be accepted as part of a permanent family - with the Regans -who did not give up on her.
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