Letters My Mother Never Read (Townsend Library)

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.