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The Family Nobody Wanted
The Family Nobody Wanted
Author: Helen Doss
Doss's charming, touching, and at times hilarious chronicle tells how each of the children, representing white, Chinese, Japanese, Filipino, Korean, Mexican, and Native American backgrounds, came to her and husband Carl, a Methodist minister. She writes of the way the "unwanted" feeling was erased with devoted love and understanding and how the ...  more »
ISBN: 461895
Publication Date: 1954
Pages: 252
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Publisher: Scholastic Book Service
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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I absolutely loved this book as a young girl. I read it numerous times and in fact I still have it but it is yellowed with years and shows it's age. This is truly a heartwarming story of a family full of love.
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This book was so inspiring to me! The Doss family grew by leaps and bounds until they numbered a dozen kids, a preacher & his wife. Theirs is the true international family, as many of the children were of mixed Asian cultures in a post-World War II world. They adopted children that were considered "unadoptable" by the agencies that housed them. But, Helen and her husband were willing to give them love and a secure home though they had little money or worldly goods. It was a fast read, but so enjoyable!
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