NEW!!-Over the Peanut Fence: Scaling Barriers for Homeless and Runaway Youth

A moving look at homeless youth, agency leaders and volunteers who work diligently to help adolescents overcome the trauma that led them to flee to the streets.

 -Read emotional stories about young people who were able to overcome abusive childhoods.

 -Understand the causes of youth homelessness.

-Meet good Samaritans who strive diligently to help traumatized youth succeed.

 -Learn about the adolescent brain and the interventions used by processionals.

 -Discover what you can do to help.

What other's say:

 “. .  lucidly written, both intellectually thorough and emotionally affecting. In addition, this isn’t a work of ax-grinding political partisanship—Eichinger prefers cool-headed analysis to grandstanding. Further, at the heart of her “part memoir and part story book” is a profound reflection on the ailing condition of American society, withering from the widespread disintegration of the family and the grim plague of “lovelessness.” Kirkus Reviews

“. . .  provides a powerful glimpse into the trauma and abuse that forces young people to run to the streets. Their stories are a call for action to libraries, government, youth agencies, universities, parents, and volunteers to work together to solve this national problem.” Pam Sandlian Smith - President:Public Library Association, 2017-2918

“. . . Our country has left a trail of suffering in our well intentioned pursuit of”democracy” in foreign lands; our nation pretends not to see the homelessness on our doorstep, save to complain about it.  This stunning book requires you to ask what you can do to help turn trauma into something better. Jack Segal, Counsel General of the U.S. (ret.), Chief Political Adviser to NAtO’S Commander in Afghanistan. 

“. . .  Eichinger has woven her personal narrative and research together with her experience as a science center director to make recommendations for those of us who wonder about the people we see with all of their belongings closely held in parks and other public spaces.  I share her confidence in the importance of kinesthetic (hands-on) learning as an alternative for those for whom reading is a challenge.” Phillis Katz, Ph.D. Science education, Associate University of Maryland, Founder Hands on Science Program.

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