Jennifer Toth

On an icy night five years ago, Johnnie Jordan -- just fourteen years old -- brutally murdered his elderly foster care mother, leaving the state of Ohio shocked and outraged. He could not tell police why he did it or even how it made him feel; all he knew was that something inside him made him ki...

From Simon & Schuster, Orphans of the Living by Jennifer Toth takes a look at the stories of America's children in foster care.