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Author Doss, Helen Grigsby, author.

Title The family nobody wanted / Helen Doss, with an introduction by Mary Battenfeld and a new epilogue by the author
Published Boston : University Press of New England, [2001]
©1954

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Contents Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Introduction; 1. IN THE BEGINNING; 2. BLIND ALLEYS; 3. AND THE WALLS CAME TUMBLING DOWN; 4. LIKE TOPSY, WE GROW; 5. SNOW COUNTRY; 6. TARO; 7. THE SORCERER'S APPRENTICE; 8. ALL THE WRONG SIZES; 9. FARMERS IN THE DELL; 10. GROWING PAINS; 11. THE SKY LARK; 12. ALL GOD'S CHILDREN; 13. LITTLE BEAVER AND THE WAR ORPHAN; 14. SO THIS IS LIFE!; 15. MERRY, MERRY CHRISTMAS; 16. THERE WAS AN OLD WOMAN; 17. DADDY SENDS MOTHER TO COLLEGE; 18. THE FULL QUIVER; Epilogue
Summary The remarkable and inspiring true story of a couple who adopted twelve children, ten of them considered ""unadoptable"" because of mixed racial parentage
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes Originally published: Boston : Little, Brown, 1954
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Subject Doss, Helen Grigsby -- Family
Doss, Carl M. -- Family
Doss, Carl M.
Doss, Helen Grigsby
Interracial adoption -- California
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Social Scientists & Psychologists.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
Families
Interracial adoption
California -- Biography
California
Genre/Form Biographies
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781555538491
1555538495