Laces

Some children learn to tie their shoes. Ember learned to tie a life together.Right, left, and pull through the middle.It was a simple rule for tying laces. For Ember, it became the rhythm of survival.Right. A new home. New rules. Another promise that something might finally stay.Left. Another move. Another goodbye. Another reason to stop trusting permanence.Pull thru the middle.That was Ember, caught between family and foster care, belonging and abandonment, childhood and survival.Laces follows Ember from birth through age thirteen as homes change, promises break, and decisions made by adults reshape Ember's world. Ember learns to observe everything, question quietly, and carry memories into unfamiliar rooms.But this is not a story told from the distance of case files and statistics.It is childhood from the inside.The confusion. The silence. The small mercies. The moments of humor. The stubborn instinct to keep going.Written by former foster youth Marilyn "Stormiey Weatherz" Scott, Laces asks readers to see the child before the paperwork, the behavior, and the placement history.Because resilience does not always look heroic.Sometimes it is a child gathering two loose ends, making another knot, and standing back up.Right, left, and pull through the middle.Tie the knot. Keep walking. Refuse to disappear.For former foster youth, adults untangling difficult childhoods, book clubs, educators, caregivers, advocates, and anyone who believes every child deserves to be seen.**Some stories tell you what happened.Laces ask you to remember whom it happened to. **