Sueck, Jerri Diane.
Letters my mother never read : an abandoned child's journey / Abandoned child's journey Jerri Diane Sueck. - West Berlin, N.J. : Townsend Press, c2004. - 199 p. : ill. ; 18 cm. - The Townsend Library . - Townsend Library. .
"Illustrations by Hal Taylor".
In the beginning -- coal cellar : ages 8 to 10 -- orphanage : ages 10 to 12 -- first foster home : the wrong decision : ages 12 to 13 -- second foster home : ages 13 to 14 -- Back at the orphanage : ages 14 to 17 -- college years : ages 17 to 24 -- convent years : ages 24 to 34 -- My emergence into life : age 34 to present. The The The The The The
When her mother died in a fire, eight-year-old Jerri thought life couldn't get worse. She was wrong. Sent to live with people who didn't want her, Jerri was powerless to stop her once-happy childhood from becoming a nightmare of cruelty and neglect. Only a stubborn belief in her own worth and a fierce will to live allowed her to reach adulthood physically and emotionally intact. This is a book that will inspire not only those who have been orphans or foster children, but anyone who has known the pain of being unwanted. - Back cover.
1591940362 (pbk.) 9781591940364 (pbk.)
2004109947
Readers for new literates.
High interest-low vocabulary books.
Foster home care--Pennsylvania.
Abandoned children.
Women--Biography.
Letters my mother never read : an abandoned child's journey / Abandoned child's journey Jerri Diane Sueck. - West Berlin, N.J. : Townsend Press, c2004. - 199 p. : ill. ; 18 cm. - The Townsend Library . - Townsend Library. .
"Illustrations by Hal Taylor".
In the beginning -- coal cellar : ages 8 to 10 -- orphanage : ages 10 to 12 -- first foster home : the wrong decision : ages 12 to 13 -- second foster home : ages 13 to 14 -- Back at the orphanage : ages 14 to 17 -- college years : ages 17 to 24 -- convent years : ages 24 to 34 -- My emergence into life : age 34 to present. The The The The The The
When her mother died in a fire, eight-year-old Jerri thought life couldn't get worse. She was wrong. Sent to live with people who didn't want her, Jerri was powerless to stop her once-happy childhood from becoming a nightmare of cruelty and neglect. Only a stubborn belief in her own worth and a fierce will to live allowed her to reach adulthood physically and emotionally intact. This is a book that will inspire not only those who have been orphans or foster children, but anyone who has known the pain of being unwanted. - Back cover.
1591940362 (pbk.) 9781591940364 (pbk.)
2004109947
Readers for new literates.
High interest-low vocabulary books.
Foster home care--Pennsylvania.
Abandoned children.
Women--Biography.