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Award-winning author, Tom North, is one of the eight North children, who together with the ten Beardsley children, became the family which was featured in the 1968 film, "Yours, Mine and Ours" starring Lucille Ball and Henry Fonda, and again in the 2005 version starring Rene Russo and Dennis Quaid. The book begins in the 1950s on Whidbey Island, Washington, where Tom's mother, Helen North, became a widow when she was just 30 years old and pregnant with her eighth child. Tom was six years old, the fourth child in the North family. Not long after, Helen North met and married Frank Beardsley, a man with ten children, and she moved her family to his house in Carmel, California. The North children were adopted and their names were changed to Beardsley. But, it wasn't one big happy family as the movie depicted. The stepfather's violence and abuse created a life of intimidation, confusion, turmoil, fear and depression for the North children. All hope seemed lost as Tom realized that he was caught in a prison and there was no way out. When he finally left home, he traveled on a journey of survival, self-discovery, and healing. Try thave moro read facts, trivia and many interesting quizzes to have more profound knowledge about the movie with hidden stoies behind author and the film.