Fills a vital need-that of the child whose parent is undergoing treatment for addiction and who is overwhelmed with the mixed emotions and uncertainties of a problem that affects millions of American families, but which no one wants to talk about. This book offers encouragement to children of a father (or mother) in recovery that there IS hope, that their family is NOT strange or bad, that they are NOT ALONE, and that a happy life in recovery is possible for their family, too Likeable Gabe makes the journey from being an almost-friendless, unhappy, and skeptical young boy reeling from mistreatment at the hands of his addicted father and the effects the disease of addiction has had on his family, to a hopeful, happy youngster who takes pride in his dad's greatest accomplishment: recovery. The shame and isolation felt by the family members of addicts are explored as Gabe learns important lessons about the disease of addiction, its widespread nature, and its solution.
Peppered with Gabe's insights and enhanced with charming and evocative illustrations, The Secret of Willow Ridge: Gabe's Dad Finds Recovery addresses the emotional and social issues children of addicts face through an engaging and contemporary story. With a foreword by Claudia Black, Ph.D. written specifically for the target reader.
Author Biography
Helen H. Moore has been a teacher, a poet, a journalist, a cartoonist, a lecturer, an editor, and always, a storyteller. She is the author of more than 17 titles, including A Poem a Day, Beavers, The Pigs' Picnic, The 100 Best Brain-Boosters, The Multilingual Translator, 25 Mother Goose Peek-a-Books, Pop-Up Parables and Other Bible Stories and Pyramids to Pueblos (with Carmen R. Sorvillo, illustrator), How to Write School Reports, What's a Girl to Do?, Wise Women Said These Things, and more, for such publishers as Scholastic, Mondo, Concordia, Publications International, and Peter Pauper Press. She is the mother of three and grandmother of five, and, when not enjoying her family and friends, spends her time working, writing, and attending twelve-step recovery meetings. Moore lives in Las Vegas, Nevada.
