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=A Chance in the World: an Orphan Boy, a Mysterious Past, and How He Found a Place Called Home=
 * By Steve Pemberton**

Following last year’s popular One Book, One Campus selection- The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, RCC has chosen Steve Pemberton’s A Chance in the World: An Orphan Boy, A Mysterious Past, and How He Found a Place Called Home, RCC was fortunate to have him as our 2012 Commencement speaker.

=The Book=

His riveting memoir chronicles his difficult path foster care and his determined search for his family. It is an inspirational story that crosses generations and cultures, but specifically speaks to those who have had the odds stacked against them. Steve’s relentless journey to overcome his life in foster care, find his biological family, and right the wrongs of his parents’ past, is a miraculous story of resilience and survival. It is a true testament of faith, fortitude, and forgiveness. Steve Pemberton is Chief Diversity Officer and Divisional Vice-President for Walgreens, the first such person to hold that responsibility in the company’s 110-year history.

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//A Chance in the World: An Orphan Boy, A Mysterious Past, and How He Found a Place Called Home.// HV983 .P46 2012

A Chance in the World
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 * About the Author**

Steve Pemberton is Chief Diversity Officer and Divisional Vice-President for Walgreens, the first such person to hold that responsibility in the company’s 110 year history. One of America’s most inspiring executives, Steve’s journey to corporate America has been all but traditional. He has become recognized as one of the nation’s leaders on matters of diversity and inclusion and its importance to the growth of the American industrial complex. In 2006, Fortune named Steve Pemberton one of the Top 20 Chief Diversity Officers in corporate America. In 2007, Steve was called to Capitol Hill to provide expert testimony on best practices in diversity recruiting and in 2008, he was named by //Savoy//as one of The Top 100 most influential African-Americans in corporate America. Steve, currently serves on several boards, including The Home for Little Wanderers and UCAN to provide guidance and inspiration to children in need. The //Pemberton Fund For The Future// has been established in his name to assist children aging out of the foster care system in Boston.

A ward of the state for much of his childhood, Steve has made opportunity, access and equality pillars of his personal and professional life. His memoir is: //A Chance in The World: An Orphan Boy, A Mysterious Past, and How He Found a Place Called Home//. It is a riveting chronicle of Steve’s difficult path through foster care and his determined search for his family. This is an inspirational story that crosses generations and cultures, but specifically whispers to those who have had the odds stacked against them. Steve’s relentless journey to overcome, find his biological family, and right the wrongs of his parents’ past, is a model for all families to follow.

Books
The on-line catalog provides access to the Library's collection of approximately 40,000 books, periodicals and audio-visual titles. These resources may be used to find information for assignments or general interest.Find related topics from the book here.

//Children at Risk : the Precarious State of Children's Well-being in America//: HV741 .C75 2010

//On Their Own: What Happens to Kids When They Age// //Out of the Foster Care System?//: HV881 .S55 2004

A piece of cake: a memoir: F869 .S22 B76 2007 (Only BPLs have this title; click the title to obtain further information.)

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Beyond the foster care system : the future for teens / Betsy Krebs, Paul Pitcoff.

The lost children of Wilder : the epic struggle to change foster care / Nina Bernstein

Foster children: where they go and how they get on / Ian Sinclair

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media type="youtube" key="sLiM2-izFl4" height="315" width="560" Lemn Sissay: A child of the state. Literature has long been fascinated with fostered, adopted and orphaned children, from Moses to Cinderella to Oliver Twist to Harry Potter. So why do many parentless children feel compelled to hide their pasts? Poet and playwright Lemn Sissay tells his own moving story.

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