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Author: Henning Nelms
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc
Published: 1944
Total Pages: 72
ISBN-13: 9780822208556
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTHE STORY: Nellie is a long-suffering young lady who seems destined not only to lose her lover but her life as well. The familiar characters of old-time melodrama here play their roles up to the hilt. The most thrilling scene is that in which dynami
Author: Maggie Hope
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2015-01-01
Total Pages: 528
ISBN-13: 1448177839
DOWNLOAD EBOOKShe's no more than an unpaid servant... Lorinda is only a child when tragedy deprives her of her true family and, sent to live with her aunt in her boarding house, she grows up desperately craving affection. And although she finds friendship - and even love - in the boarding house, she finally sees a chance to escape her drab surroundings and unkind family. But is a marriage of convenience better than a love that's true?
Author: Sandy Taylor (Fiction writer)
Publisher:
Published: 2020
Total Pages: 442
ISBN-13: 9781004001767
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhen Cissy Ryan's real mother comes to claim her from the workhouse, it's not how she imagined. Her family's tumbledown cottage has ice on the inside of its windows and is in an isolated, poverty-stricken village in the muddy Irish countryside. But when Cissy is allowed to help neighbour Colm Doyle and his horse named Blue on their milk round one morning, Cissy starts to feel as though friendship could get her through anything. It's Colm who looks in on Cissy's grandfather when she starts at the village school, and Colm who tells her to hold her chin high when she interviews for a position at the grand Bretton House. But in the vast mansion with its shining floors and sweeping staircase, it's Master Peter Bretton who captures Cissy's heart with his dark curls and easy laugh.
Author: Chrissie Walsh
Publisher: Aria
Published: 2022
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 180110560X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK1901, West Yorkshire. When Eli Simmonite takes in a heavily pregnant woman fleeing from peril, he feels sure no good will come of it. Afterall, settled folk don't need much reason to take against the travellers, so having one seek safety amongst his people is unheard of. When danger comes knocking they leave devastation and a newborn child in their wake. Eli is left with the baby girl and his orphaned grandson; a reminder of the offer of aid that cost him his family. With no kin but the adopted family who hold her responsible for their demise, this girl named Rosie Nobody is filled with questions of her past. But with war looming in all of their futures, questions must be put aside: survival is the key. A compelling and beautifully written historical world war one saga of family secrets and triumph in the face of adversity. Perfect for fans of Dilly Court and Anne Marie Brear.
Author: Christina Baker Kline
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2017-05-02
Total Pages: 127
ISBN-13: 0062445960
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis young readers’ edition of Christina Baker Kline’s #1 New York Times bestselling novel Orphan Train follows a twelve-year-old foster girl who forms an unlikely bond with a ninety-one-year-old woman. Adapted and condensed for a young audience, Orphan Train Girl includes an author’s note and archival photos from the orphan train era. This book is especially perfect for mother/daughter reading groups. Molly Ayer has been in foster care since she was eight years old. Most of the time, Molly knows it’s her attitude that’s the problem, but after being shipped from one family to another, she’s had her fair share of adults treating her like an inconvenience. So when Molly’s forced to help an a wealthy elderly woman clean out her attic for community service, Molly is wary. But from the moment they meet, Molly realizes that Vivian isn’t like any of the adults she’s encountered before. Vivian asks Molly questions about her life and actually listens to the answers. Soon Molly sees they have more in common than she thought. Vivian was once an orphan, too—an Irish immigrant to New York City who was put on a so-called "orphan train" to the Midwest with hundreds of other children—and she can understand, better than anyone else, the emotional binds that have been making Molly’s life so hard. Together, they not only clear boxes of past mementos from Vivian’s attic, but forge a path of friendship, forgiveness, and new beginnings.
Author: Crystaldawn Earl
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Published: 2015-01-16
Total Pages: 221
ISBN-13: 1499047673
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOlivia Abigail Eastcote, at the age of 17 decides to set out on journey to search for the truth about her parents. During her time at the Orphanage for Girls, located in London, England, she learns from her high mistress, Mrs. Grace Van Loon, through a letter and receiving a locket that her parents were killed. Olivia refuses to believe this... She takes her best friend, and soon to be lover, Thomas De Wilde with her to find her parents. They journey to Paris, France and Olivia ends up staying with the Prince at his palace during a time where Olivia and Thomas are separated. When Olivia meets up with Thomas again, it is there that Olivia learns about her parents, and she finds out her worst nightmare coming true. This causes her to make a choice of whether to live or not. Prince James and Thomas begin to fight for Olivia, but in the end Olivia and Thomas return to London to start their lives together.
Author: Michaela DePrince
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 258
ISBN-13: 0385755112
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"The memoir of Michaela DePrince, who lived the first few years of her live in war-torn Sierra Leone until being adopted by an American Family. Now seventeen, she is one of the premiere ballerinas in the United States"--
Author: Jean Little
Publisher: Markham, Ont. : Scholastic Canada
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 232
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThrough 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.
Author: Laurel Snyder
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2017-05-30
Total Pages: 162
ISBN-13: 0062443437
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA National Book Award Longlist title! "A wondrous book, wise and wild and deeply true." —Kelly Barnhill, Newbery Medal-winning author of The Girl Who Drank the Moon "This is one of those books that haunts you long after you read it. Thought-provoking and magical." —Rick Riordan, author of the Percy Jackson series In the tradition of modern-day classics like Sara Pennypacker's Pax and Lois Lowry's The Giver comes a deep, compelling, heartbreaking, and completely one-of-a-kind novel about nine children who live on a mysterious island. On the island, everything is perfect. The sun rises in a sky filled with dancing shapes; the wind, water, and trees shelter and protect those who live there; when the nine children go to sleep in their cabins, it is with full stomachs and joy in their hearts. And only one thing ever changes: on that day, each year, when a boat appears from the mist upon the ocean carrying one young child to join them—and taking the eldest one away, never to be seen again. Today’s Changing is no different. The boat arrives, taking away Jinny’s best friend, Deen, replacing him with a new little girl named Ess, and leaving Jinny as the new Elder. Jinny knows her responsibility now—to teach Ess everything she needs to know about the island, to keep things as they’ve always been. But will she be ready for the inevitable day when the boat will come back—and take her away forever from the only home she’s known? "A unique and compelling story about nine children who live with no adults on a mysterious island. Anyone who has ever been scared of leaving their family will love this book" (from the Brightly.com review, which named Orphan Island a best book of 2017).
Author: Evelyne Tannehill
Publisher: Wheatmark, Inc.
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 442
ISBN-13: 1587366932
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMuch has been written about World War II, but not often do we hear about the immeasurable suffering of the Germans who wanted no part of Hitler's regime. Abandoned and Forgotten is the memoir of a young girl growing up in the then-German province of East Prussia by the Baltic Sea. Orphaned at the age of nine and left to fend for herself in a hostile world, Evelyne Tannehill witnessed firsthand what happens when law and order break down and self-preservation becomes the only thing that matters. Her journey is a poignant example of how resilient the human spirit can be, even in the face of war's greatest horrors.
