{"product_id":"9780692618011","title":"Rescuing Children: Teachers, Social Workers, Nuns and Missionaries Who Stepped in the Shadows to Rescue Waifs","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eRescuing Children\u003c\/i\u003e is a powerful collection of biographical sketches centering on teachers, social workers, nuns, and missionaries in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries who stepped into the shadows to liberate children from disease, destitution, and despair.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIrena Sendler smuggled Jewish children out of the Warsaw Ghetto right under the Nazis' noses.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDr. Thomas Barnardo started orphanages for the children of London's East End.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBertha Bracey organized the Kindertransport during WWII, which saved ten thousand children from Nazi extermination.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCharles Loring Brace and Sister Irene reached out to the homeless children of Five Points, New York City, with their orphan trains.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGladys Aylward led over one hundred orphans across China to escape the Japanese.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAmy Carmichael led the war against selling children to the temples in India.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJane Addams built the Hull House so the immigrant urchins of Chicago could grow up in safety.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the vein of \u003ci\u003eTattoos on the Heart\u003c\/i\u003e by Gregory Boyle and \u003ci\u003eA Chance to Die\u003c\/i\u003e by Elisabeth Elliot, this extraordinary book will inspire you to reach out with compassion to the children around the world who live in misery, poverty, and deprivation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Chi-Town Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49782263611632,"sku":"9780692618011","price":5.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780692618011","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}