The Family Nobody Wanted

The remarkable and inspiring true story of a couple who adopted twelve children, ten of them considered "unadoptable" because of mixed racial parentage.

About the author

Helen Doss has been a writer and an internationally known advocate for adoptive families for more than fifty years. She has published numerous articles in such national periodicals as American Girl and Reader's Digest, and is the author of thirteen books, including All the Children of the World and Really Real Family and the coauthor (with Carl Doss) of If You Adopt a Child. She lives with her husband Roger Reed in Yuba City, California. Mary Battenfeld is Associate Professor of Humanities at Wheelock College. She is the author of several articles on teaching and multicultural literature, and the mother of two children adopted from India. She lives in the Boston area.

Product details

• Authors: Helen Doss
• Publisher: Northeastern University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2001
• EAN: 9781555535025
• ISBN: 978-1-55553-502-5
• No. of pages: 274
• Weight: 398 g
• Subjects: Fiction > Bilingual editions > German/English; Guides > Self-help, everyday life > Family; Memoiren, Berichte/Erinnerungen, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs, Biography / Autobiography, FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Adoption & Fostering