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Author
Series
Pub. Date
2001
Physical Desc
200 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Abandoned as an infant at the State Public School in Owatonna, Minnesota, Peter Razor is raised by abusive workers who thought of him as nothing more than "a dirty Injun." Cut off from his family and his heritage, he turns inward, forced to learn about the world on his own. After failed attempts to run away from the orphanage, he is indentured by the state to an abusive, reclusive farm family. Beaten, poorly fed, clothed in rags, and worked like slave...
Author
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
128 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Sarah Richards, the oldest of five children growing up in the early 20th century rural Midwest, struggles to hold her family together as she and her four siblings attempt to survive illness, abandonment, abuse, neglect, hunger, institutionalization, and loss. In Crackers and milk, Arlene Nelson retells her mother's amazing story of an unusually tarnished childhood, as her mother told it to her many years ago"--Cover p. [4].
4) My light at the end of the tunnel: the journey from abandoned child and abused wife to a loved woman
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Language
English
Description
"It wasn't a good beginning to a life when a little girl is abandoned and raised in an orphanage. An abusive husband, life threatening accidents or her children and her own depression almost broke this young woman. Somehow she found the strength to stay strong and keep going. ... This second edition includes the most recent events in Helen's life as she turns 91" -- Page [4] cover.
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Series
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 book club bag ; in container.
Language
English
Description
Abandoned as an infant at the State Public School in Owatonna, Minnesota, Peter Razor is raised by abusive workers who thought of him as nothing more than "a dirty Injun." Cut off from his family and his heritage, he turns inward, forced to learn about the world on his own. After failed attempts to run away from the orphanage, he is indentured by the state to an abusive, reclusive farm family. Beaten, poorly fed, clothed in rags, and worked like slave...