num_pages: 261
description: A heart-rending but uplifting story of the human spirit's ability to prevail.From the day he is five-years-old and dropped off at his foster home of the next eleven years Stephen is mentally and physically tortured. No one in the system can help him. No one can tell him if he has a family. No one can tell him why with obvious African-American features he has the last name of Klakowicz.Along the way a single faint light comes only from a neighbors small acts of kindness and caringand a box of books. From one of those books he learns that he has to fight in any way he canfor victory is in the battle. His victory is to excel in school.Against all odds the author succeeded. He attended college graduated became a successful corporate executive and married a wonderful woman with whom he established a loving family of his own. Through it he dug voraciously through records and files and found his history his birth familyand the ultimate disappointment as some family members embrace him but others reject him.Readers wont be the same after reading this powerful story. They will share in the hurts and despair but also in the triumph against daunting obstacles. They will share this story with their family with their friends with their neighbors.
language: English
title: A CHANCE IN THE WORLD: An Orphan Boy, a Mysterious Past, and How He Found a Place Called Home
publisher: Thomas Nelson