Author: Ann BennettPublisher: Forever
ISBN: 9781538707517
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
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.
Orphan Journey Home
Author: Liza KetchumPublisher: Turtleback
ISBN: 9780606259156
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 129
Book Description
In 1828, while traveling by wagon from Illinois to Kentucky, twelve-year-old Jesse and her siblings lose their parents to a mysterious illness and must finish the dangerous journey by themselves.
The Orphans' Home Cycle
Author: Horton FootePublisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc
ISBN: 0822224755
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 94
Book Description
THE STORY: Act One: Roots in a Parched Ground. When his father dies and his mother and sister move to Houston, Horace Robedaux is left behind in Harrison, Texas with his feuding relatives, the Robedauxs and the Thorntons.Act Two: Convicts. Horace take
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
Orphan Eleven
Author: Gennifer CholdenkoPublisher: Yearling
ISBN: 0385742568
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
For readers who love the circus, and anyone who has dreamed of finding the perfect home, comes an engaging adventure from a Newbery Honor-winning storyteller. Four orphans have escaped from the Home for Friendless Children. One is Lucy, who used to talk and sing, until life at the Home silenced her. The other orphans find work and friends at the circus, but no one will hire a mute girl. Lucy must find her voice or she will be left behind when the circus goes on the rails. Meanwhile, people are searching for Lucy, and her puzzling past is about to catch up with her. This irresistible, heartfelt novel by the master storyteller of the Tales from Alcatraz series is full of marvels and surprises.
The Foundling's Daughter
Author: Ann BennettPublisher:
ISBN: 9781790616053
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
Three women connected down the decades by a mystery from the 1930s, with its roots in British India and an orphanage in Berkshire.In 1934, Anna Foster, the young wife of a British Army Officer, privately harbouring pain and remorse, sets sail from Bombay on a fateful journey home, a letter from a charismatic stranger - orphanage superintendent, Reverend Ezra Burroughs - in her pocket.Seventy-six years later, Connie Burroughs, Ezra's daughter, now in her nineties and in a care home, still lives in fear of her dead father. She guards his secrets loyally, but with a lifetime of regrets.Sarah Jennings, escaping an unhappy marriage, moves to be near her ageing father. She buys Cedar Lodge, the crumbling former home of the Burroughs family, a renovation project she hopes will bring peace of mind to trying times. But she's not prepared for the shocking secrets she uncovers.Determined to track down the past, Sarah embarks on a quest to expose the chilling events that took place at Ezra Burroughs' orphanage in the 1930s; a quest that will ultimately change her life.
Orphan at My Door
Author: Jean LittlePublisher: Markham, Ont. : Scholastic Canada
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Through the diary of 10-year-old Victoria Cope, we learn about the arrival of ragged Mary Anna, one of the thousands of impoverished British children who were sent to Canada at the beginning of the century. Mary Anna joins the Cope family as a servant and is treated well, but she has to cope with the initial apprehension of the family members and the loss of her brother, Jasper, who was placed with another family. Victoria vows to help Mary Anna find her brother, so they can be a family once again.
Call of the Curlew
Author: Elizabeth BrooksPublisher: Black Swan
ISBN: 9781784163495
Category : Adopted children
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
'Unforgettable' - ROSAMUND LUPTON Virginia Wrathmell has always known she will meet her death on the marsh. One snowy New Year's Eve, at the age of eighty-six, Virginia feels the time has finally come. New Year's Eve, 1939. Virginia is ten, an orphan arriving to meet her new parents at their mysterious house, Salt Winds. Her new home sits on the edge of a vast marsh, a beautiful but dangerous place. War feels far away out here amongst the birds and shifting sands - until the day a German fighter plane crashes into the marsh. The people at Salt Winds are the only ones to see it. What happens next is something Virginia will regret for the next seventy-five years, and which will change the whole course of her life.
House of Orphans
Author: Helen DunmorePublisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141015020
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 443
Book Description
'House of Orphans' is a spellbinding story of love and loneliness, of the differences between change and revolution, and of the terrorism that lurks everywhere in times of change, even in our private midst.
