Author: Serhiy ZhadanPublisher: World Republic of Letters (Yale)
ISBN: 0300243014
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 335
Book Description
"A Margellos World Republic of Letters Book."
The Orphanage
Author: Lizzie PagePublisher: Forever
ISBN: 9781538766088
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A gritty, heartbreaking story of love and hope in the darkest of times, perfect for readers of Erika Robuck and Shirley Dickson. Shilling Grange Orphanage, England, 1948: Clara Newton is the new housemother of Shilling Grange Orphanage. Many of the children have been bombed out of their homes and left without families, their lives torn apart by the war, just like Clara's. Devastated by the loss of her fiancé, a brave American pilot, Clara needs a place to start again and the orphans are in desperate need of her help. But funds are short, children cry out in the night, and the tearful girls tells Clara terrible stories about the nuns who previously ran Shilling Grange. Clara cannot bear to see them suffer, yet it soon becomes clear that she's in over her head. But Clara is not completely alone. Living next door is Ivor: war hero and handyman with deep brown eyes. Having grown up at the orphanage, he's also hesitant to trust anyone. Yet his gentle voice and bottomless patience helps him soothe the orphans better than anyone. With his help, the orphans--and Clara--have someone to give them hope. But does she dare she open her heart to love again?
Oddfellow's Orphanage
Author: Emily Winfield MartinPublisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 0375986359
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
New York Times bestselling author Emily Winfield Martin brings a strange and wonderful place to life with her unique style of both art and writing. What do an onion-headed boy, a child-sized hedgehog, and a tattooed girl have in common? They are all orphans at Oddfellow's Orphanage! This unusual and charming chapter book tells an episodic story that follows a new orphan, Delia, as she discovers the delights of her new home. From classes in Cryptozoology and Fairy Tale Studies to trips to the circus, from Annual Hair Cutting Day to a sea monster-sighting field trip, things at Oddfellows are anything but ordinary . . . except when it comes to friendships. And in that, Oddfellows is like any other school where children discover what they mean to each other while learning how big the world really is.
How (Not) to Start an Orphanage
Author: Tara WinklerPublisher: Allen & Unwin
ISBN: 1742695175
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 443
Book Description
How could it be wrong to save the children by starting an orphanage? Oh, in so many ways . . . Tara Winkler first arrived in Cambodia to join a tour group in 2005 and was taken to visit a small orphanage in Battambang. The children were living in extreme poverty, and Tara was determined to raise money to help them. Two years later, after fundraising in Australia, Tara returned to Battambang only to discover that the same children were in deep trouble. Her spontaneous response was to find them a new, safe, home. With a team of committed locals and support from friends, she established the Cambodian Children's Trust (CCT). With an instant family of fourteen children and three dogs, Tara had to learn a lot, very fast. And, along the way, she realised that many of the actions she took with good intentions were not at all what the children needed - or indeed, what any child needs. CCT now helps vulnerable children to escape poverty and be cared for within their families. In this compelling, poignant and funny memoir, Tara shares the many joys and the terrible lows of her journey thus far with honesty and passion. Written with co-writer, Lynda Delacey, How (Not) to Start an Orphanage is a book that will keep you thinking long after you turn the final page.
The Charleston Orphan House
Author: John E. MurrayPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226924092
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 291
Book Description
"In The Charleston Orphan House, distinguished economic historian John E. Murray uncovers a world about which previous generations of scholars knew next to nothing: the world of orphaned children in early national and antebellum America. Employing a unique cache of records, Murray offers a sensitive and sympathetic account of the history of the institution - the first public orphan house in the US - while at the same time making it clear that Charleston's beneficence toward white orphans was inextricably linked to the racial ideology of the city's leaders. In Murray's hands, the voices of poor white families in early America are heard as never before." -- Peter A Coclanis, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. -- Book jacket.
BUILDING THE INVISIBLE ORPHANAGE
Author: Matthew A. CRENSONPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674005549
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
In 1996, America abolished its long-standing welfare system in favor of a new and largely untried public assistance program. Welfare as we knew it arose in turn from a previous generation's rejection of an even earlier system of aid. That generation introduced welfare in order to eliminate orphanages. This book examines the connection between the decline of the orphanage and the rise of welfare. Matthew Crenson argues that the prehistory of the welfare system was played out not on the stage of national politics or class conflict but in the micropolitics of institutional management. New arrangements for child welfare policy emerged gradually as superintendents, visiting agents, and charity officials responded to the difficulties that they encountered in running orphanages or creating systems that served as alternatives to institutional care. Crenson also follows the decades-long debate about the relative merits of family care or institutional care for dependent children. Leaving poor children at home with their mothers emerged as the most generally acceptable alternative to the orphanage, along with an ambitious new conception of social reform. Instead of sheltering vulnerable children in institutions designed to transform them into virtuous citizens, the reformers of the Progressive era tried to integrate poor children into the larger society, while protecting them from its perils.
The Halle Orphanage as Scientific Community
Author: Kelly Joan WhitmerPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022624377X
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 213
Book Description
Founded around 1700 by a group of German Lutherans known as Pietists, the Halle Orphanage became the institutional headquarters of a universal seminar that still stands largely intact today. It was the base of an educational, charitable, and scientific community and consisted of an elite school for the sons of noblemen. Yet, its reputation as a Pietist enclave inhabited largely by young people has prevented the organisation from being taken seriously as a kind of scientific academy - even though, Kelly Joan Whitmer shows, this is precisely what it was. This book calls into question a long-standing tendency to view German Pietists as anti-science and anti-Enlightenment, arguing that these tendencies have drawn attention away from what was actually going on inside the orphanage.
Inferno in the Orphanage
Author: Drac Von StollerPublisher: Drac Von Stoller
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 10
Book Description
Hope Haven Home for Children stood on the outskirts of a small town in the United States, its looming walls casting a shadow over the surrounding countryside. The orphanage, run by the stern and cold-hearted Sofia Myers, was meant to be a safe haven for children without families, but to the orphans who lived there, it was more like a prison. Chloe, Grace, Elizabeth, Nicholas, Joseph, and Alex were just a few of the unfortunate souls who called Hope Haven their home. They were all displaced after World War 2, left with no parents or home to go to. Sofia Myers, the woman in charge, ruled the orphanage with an iron fist. She had no compassion for the children in her care, only caring about the money that came with running the orphanage. Sofia's strict rules governed every aspect of the orphans' lives. Their heads were shaved, and they were forced to wear uniforms and march to meals. The caregivers, who were all relatives of Sofia, were just as cruel as she was. They treated the children like animals, punishing them for the slightest infractions. One night, as the orphans sat huddled together in their cold, dimly lit dormitory, Chloe spoke up. "We can't take this anymore," she whispered, her voice trembling with fear. "We have to do something." Grace nodded in agreement. "We have to fight back.
The Orphan Keeper
Author: Camron WrightPublisher: Turtleback Books
ISBN: 9780606407441
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Seven-year-old Chellamuthu's life--and his destiny--is forever changed when he is kidnapped from his village in Southern India and sold to the Lincoln Home for Homeless Children. His family is desperate to find him, and Chellamuthu anxiously tells th
Metropolis Orphanage: Book 1
Author: Jenna LynnPublisher: ABDO
ISBN: 1532134363
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 51
Book Description
Master thief Robyn Hood must discover who is taking money from a local orphanage before the kids' fates are put in danger. Spellbound is an imprint of Magic Wagon, a division of ABDO.
