Sueck, Jerri Diane. <br/><br/>
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. .
<br/><br/> "Illustrations by Hal Taylor". 
<br/><br/> 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 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>1591940362 (pbk.) 9781591940364 (pbk.) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2004109947 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Readers for new literates.<br/>High interest-low vocabulary books.<br/>Foster home care--Pennsylvania.<br/>Abandoned children.<br/>Women--Biography.