The Family Nobody Wanted

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Summary: The Best Book I Have Ever Read!
Review: I have read a number of books but none that has touched my heart as this. I bought the book at a garage sale when I was 10 years old, due to fire I lost the book a few years ago, and miss it terribly! If you have never read this book you must! Helen has done such a wonderful job at capturing the essence of her story on paper, few can match. Her story of hard times, love, and endurance is so powerful, I cried. I cry now at the thought of not being able to share such a wonderful story with my daughter. If you have a copy of this book, be sure to treasure it always.

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Summary: Should be in print--what a wonderful book!
Review: I hope some publishers sees all the reviews of this book and puts it back in print! I think I must have read this book about 100 times as a child. I haven't read it in years, as I no longer own it, but I still think of it often. I'm sure this book was an inspiration to many people to adopt children that "nobody wanted", but in addition to being inspirational, it's great to read---full of details of life with a houseful of kids and not much money! So many details are still fresh in my mind---the Dosses eating that can of snake meat when they were ALL out of other food, the Christmas they were given all kinds of great toys for the kids, how the oldest son kept wanting a brother just his age...and many more! If you can get ahold of this book, you will like it!

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Summary: Dissapointed on family updates
Review: I love this book, having read it many times since I found an old copy at a library sale. Since my huband and I are in the process of adopting, I browsed Amazon on adoption and found the new edition of the book. I was thrilled to read the new copy would have an update on the family. I was disapointed when I received my copy to find just a few pages. So one of them became a computer programmer? I expected more. After all the time that has passed, the kids in the book are grandparents now. Helen has a perfect right not to divulge details, but the book shouldn't be billedas an update on the family.

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Summary: Dissapointed on family updates
Review: I love this book, having read it many times since I found an old copy at a library sale. Since my huband and I are in the process of adopting, I browsed Amazon on adoption and found the new edition of the book. I was thrilled to read the new copy would have an update on the family. I was disapointed when I received my copy to find just a few pages. So one of them became a computer programmer? I expected more. After all the time that has passed, the kids in the book are grandparents now. Helen has a perfect right not to divulge details, but the book shouldn't be billedas an update on the family.

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Summary: OVERFLOWING WITH LOVE
Review: I never knew such love could exist until I read this book. I bought it as a child and read it many times. When I grew up and became a classroom teacher, I would read it to my class as literature. Every now and then, I had to stop reading to fight back the tears. One of my students must have fallen in love with it too because it disappeared one day. If you have a copy of this book, treasure it always.

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Summary: Looking for current facts on Helen Doss.
Review: I read The Family Nobody Wanted when I was 13 years old. Itwas my favorite book. I have recently read it to my own 10 and 12 yearold children. We have wondered what has hapened to this wonderful family.

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Summary: for every person who ever wondered if they wanted a family
Review: I read this book 35 years ago and still have my copy. I bought it through the Scolastic Book Service, when I was in 5th grade. I logged on to this web site hoping to locate a copy for a wonderful friend who just completed the adoption process for the latest of six children. He and his wife didn't need the book for inspiration, but it would be the perfect compliment to their own life story. I'll keep searching.

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Summary: A book that you'll never forget!
Review: I read this book about 30 years ago, when I was in elementary school, and I loved it. I reread it several times, and when I left home, I think Mom sold it in a garage sale. I've thought about it often over the years, and would love to have a copy again, so that I could reread it. I'm amazed that so many other people felt the same way about the book as I did. I can't believe that it's out of print!! What a wonderful story for all time!

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Summary: Still remember this book after reading it 25 years ago!
Review: I read this book as a child and I loved it, being from England it also gave me a look into American life. It is a wonderful book and I want my twins to read it too. never thought I would find it again. Camille Miller

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Summary: A loving and fulfilling true story.
Review: I read this book as a teenager and I credit it as giving me the open mind and loving heart that I now have. I have been searching for a copy of this book to give to my own teenage daughter. I hope when I find it that her life will be enhanced by this book just as mine was.