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Title	:	The Family Nobody Wanted
Author	:	Helen Grigsby Doss
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 274 pages
Published	:	October 18th 2001 by Northeastern University Press (first published 1954)
Categories	:	Nonfiction. Autobiography. Memoir. Parenting. Adoption. Biography. Biography Memoir

The Family Nobody Wanted

Helen Grigsby Doss

Paperback | Pages: 274 pages

Rating: 4.3 | 1453 Users | 196 Reviews

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Doss's charming, touching, and at times hilarious chronicle tells how each of the children, representing white, Chinese, Japanese, Filipino, Korean, Mexican, and Native American backgrounds, came to her and husband Carl, a Methodist minister. She writes of the way the "unwanted" feeling was erased with devoted love and understanding and how the children united into one happy family. Her account reads like a novel, with scenes of hard times and triumphs described in vivid prose. The Family Nobody Wanted, which inspired two films, opened doors for other adoptive families and was a popular favorite among parents, young adults, and children for more than thirty years. Now this edition will introduce the classic to a new generation of readers. An epilogue by Helen Doss that updates the family's progress since 1954 will delight the book's loyal legion of fans around the world.

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Original Title:	The Family Nobody Wanted
ISBN:	155553502X (ISBN13: 9781555535025)
Edition Language:	English

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Ratings: 4.3 From 1453 Users | 196 Reviews

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I first read this book years ago as a teenager and probably a pre-teen. I was wonderful to read it again now more than 30 years later. I thought that the book took place in the 50's but it was written in the 50's and actually begins before WWII and goes through the war years and beyond. It was amazing to read in the book how happy they were when he was making $2,500 a year instead of $900 a year. And raising a family. Anyone who has an interest in adoption or foster care will probably love this

It was fun and interesting to read about how a family copes with adding more children to their family through adoption, especially since it was in the 40s and 50s that they were adopting. All the children but the first were multiracial or other wise "not wanted" The little stories were entertaining. I think I would have given it four stars except after about six kids it started to be a bit repetitions. It was heart-warming to read that someone paved the way for the next generations of

This book reminded me of one of the books I would have found on my great-grandparents' shelf, mixed in with stories about horses and loyal dogs. (They were mostly my great-Uncle Lonnie's books from his childhood, I later found out.) Reading it was exactly like stepping back in time to when my great-grandparents were beginning their family, and I loved that look back at the time period.This book details Helen Doss' journey to adopting a dozen children, the majority of whom came from minority

This delightful book was originally published in 1954. Helen Doss tells the story of the adventure begun by herself & her Methodist minister husband Carl when they started adopting children. Originally their intent was to find "a boy the same size as me" for their first son, Donny who wanted a brother. Eight more children were adopted and still Donny, age seven, didn't have a sibling his age. Finally, when Donny was eleven, another 11-year-old boy was found but he came with another girl and

One of my all-time favorites, this book alternates between the stories of adopting and fostering children and the stories of raising them. Helen Doss and her preacher husband can't conceive, but they are fortunate to adopt a healthy little boy. When they try to expand their family, they hit a wall and are told that there simply are no more children for them. After a brief dalliance with the black market, they resolve to keep applying in the hopes that they can someday adopt another child.One day

I requested this book be brought up from storage in our library, because I had just read a play based on the book, in consideration for our theater company's next season. The charming play is loosely based on the family, but the book is a memoir written by the mother. I don't know why this isn't a classic...or maybe it is, and I've just never heard of it before? A seminary student and his young wife, during WWII, begin to adopt "unadoptable" children because they are unable to have their own.

I first read this book years ago as a teenager and probably a pre-teen. I was wonderful to read it again now more than 30 years later. I thought that the book took place in the 50's but it was written in the 50's and actually begins before WWII and goes through the war years and beyond. It was amazing to read in the book how happy they were when he was making $2,500 a year instead of $900 a year. And raising a family. Anyone who has an interest in adoption or foster care will probably love this