19 Steps Up the Mountain: The Story of the DeBolt Family
by Joseph P. Blank
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Piedmont, California family adopts 13 difficult to place children, many with physical disabilities.Tags
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dara85 If you enjoyed the Family Nobody Wanted you surely willl want to read 19 Steps Up the Mountain also about the DeBolt family.
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This is the story of Bob and Dorothy Debolt who ended up with 19 children. Many of the children were adopted from other countries. A number of the children had disablities rangeing from blindness to physical handicaps. Each of the children brought into their home was challenged to become independent while living in a loving, supportive environment.
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Common Knowledge
- Original publication date
- 1976
- People/Characters
- Dorothy DeBolt; Bob DeBolt; Robert DeBolt
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- Genres
- Nonfiction, Biography & Memoir, General Nonfiction, Tween
- DDC/MDS
- 362.7 — Society, government, & culture Social problems and social services Social Welfare Child welfare
- LCC
- HV875 .B57 — Social sciences Social pathology. Social and public welfare. Criminology Social pathology. Social and public welfare. Protection, assistance and relief Special classes Children Destitute, neglected, and abandoned
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- (4.08)
- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper
- ISBNs
- 3
- ASINs
- 4
