TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sueck,Jerri Diane
AU  - Taylor,Hal
TI  - Letters my mother never read: an abandoned child's journey 
T2  - The Townsend Library
SN  - 1591940362 (pbk.)
PY  - 2004///
CY  - West Berlin, N.J.
PB  - Townsend Press
KW  - Readers for new literates
KW  - High interest-low vocabulary books
KW  - Foster home care
KW  - Pennsylvania
KW  - Abandoned children
KW  - Women
KW  - Biography
N1  - "Illustrations by Hal Taylor"; In the beginning --; The; coal cellar : ages 8 to 10 --; The; orphanage : ages 10 to 12 --; The; first foster home : the wrong decision : ages 12 to 13 --; The; second foster home : ages 13 to 14 --; Back at the orphanage : ages 14 to 17 --; The; college years : ages 17 to 24 --; The; convent years : ages 24 to 34 --; My emergence into life : age 34 to present
N2  - 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
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