Author: Cathy Sharp
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0008387680
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 325
Book Description
The compelling new book from the author of The Girl in the Ragged Shawl and The Orphans of Halfpenny Street
An Orphan’s Dream (Button Street Orphans)
Author: Cathy Sharp
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0008387680
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 325
Book Description
The compelling new book from the author of The Girl in the Ragged Shawl and The Orphans of Halfpenny Street
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0008387680
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 325
Book Description
The compelling new book from the author of The Girl in the Ragged Shawl and The Orphans of Halfpenny Street
Don’t Push the Button!
Author: Bill Cotter
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
ISBN: 1402287488
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
There's only one rule in Larry's book: don't push the button. (Seriously, don't even think about it!) Even if it does look kind of nice, you must never push the button. Who knows what would happen? Okay, quick. No one is looking... push the button. Uh, oh.
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
ISBN: 1402287488
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
There's only one rule in Larry's book: don't push the button. (Seriously, don't even think about it!) Even if it does look kind of nice, you must never push the button. Who knows what would happen? Okay, quick. No one is looking... push the button. Uh, oh.
Little Princes
Author: Conor Grennan
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0007354169
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
Describes how the author's three-month service as a volunteer at the Little Princes Orphanage in war-torn Nepal became a commitment for advocacy and reform when he discovered that many of his young charges were victims rescued from human traffickers.
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0007354169
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
Describes how the author's three-month service as a volunteer at the Little Princes Orphanage in war-torn Nepal became a commitment for advocacy and reform when he discovered that many of his young charges were victims rescued from human traffickers.
When We Were Orphans
Author: Kazuo Ishiguro
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0375412654
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 481
Book Description
From the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature and author of the Booker Prize–winning novel The Remains of the Day comes this stunning work of soaring imagination. Born in early twentieth-century Shanghai, Banks was orphaned at the age of nine after the separate disappearances of his parents. Now, more than twenty years later, he is a celebrated figure in London society; yet the investigative expertise that has garnered him fame has done little to illuminate the circumstances of his parents' alleged kidnappings. Banks travels to the seething, labyrinthine city of his memory in hopes of solving the mystery of his own painful past, only to find that war is ravaging Shanghai beyond recognition—and that his own recollections are proving as difficult to trust as the people around him. Masterful, suspenseful and psychologically acute, When We Were Orphans offers a profound meditation on the shifting quality of memory, and the possibility of avenging one’s past.
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0375412654
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 481
Book Description
From the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature and author of the Booker Prize–winning novel The Remains of the Day comes this stunning work of soaring imagination. Born in early twentieth-century Shanghai, Banks was orphaned at the age of nine after the separate disappearances of his parents. Now, more than twenty years later, he is a celebrated figure in London society; yet the investigative expertise that has garnered him fame has done little to illuminate the circumstances of his parents' alleged kidnappings. Banks travels to the seething, labyrinthine city of his memory in hopes of solving the mystery of his own painful past, only to find that war is ravaging Shanghai beyond recognition—and that his own recollections are proving as difficult to trust as the people around him. Masterful, suspenseful and psychologically acute, When We Were Orphans offers a profound meditation on the shifting quality of memory, and the possibility of avenging one’s past.
The Orphans of Halfpenny Street (Halfpenny Orphans, Book 1)
Author: Cathy Sharp
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0008118450
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 387
Book Description
Call the Midwife meets Dr Barnardo’s in this gritty drama
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0008118450
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 387
Book Description
Call the Midwife meets Dr Barnardo’s in this gritty drama
The Barefoot Child (The Children of the Workhouse, Book 2)
Author: Cathy Sharp
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0008286698
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
The heart-breaking and compelling new book set in a Victorian workhouse from the author of the The Orphans of Halfpenny Street
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0008286698
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
The heart-breaking and compelling new book set in a Victorian workhouse from the author of the The Orphans of Halfpenny Street
An Orphan’s Promise (Button Street Orphans)
Author: Cathy Sharp
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0008387621
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
All the Button Street children deserve a good home...
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0008387621
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
All the Button Street children deserve a good home...
A Family Apart
Author: Joan Lowery Nixon
Publisher: Delacorte Press
ISBN: 0307827550
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 177
Book Description
FOR LOVERS OF HISTORICAL ADVENTURE, A FAMILY APART IS THE MIDDLE-GRADE ANSWER TO CHRISTINA BAKER KLINE'S NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING ORPHAN TRAIN. Imagine being taken from your home. Imagine your mother is the one who lets it happen. This is the fate that befalls the Kelly children. It’s 1856, and their widowed mother has sent them west from New York City because she’s convinced that she can’t give them the life they deserve. The Kellys board an “orphan train” and are taken to St. Joseph, Missouri, where their problems only grow worse. It was bad enough that they had to say goodbye to their mother, but now they’re forced to part ways with their fellow siblings as well. Thirteen-year-old Frances won’t stand for it. She’s going to protect her brothers and sisters, even if it means dressing up like a boy and putting herself in danger. Will Frances be able to save her siblings? And what about her mom—was splitting up their family really her greatest act of love? Ride the rails with Frances and her siblings to find out! “This is as close to a perfect book as you’ll buy this year.” –VOYA
Publisher: Delacorte Press
ISBN: 0307827550
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 177
Book Description
FOR LOVERS OF HISTORICAL ADVENTURE, A FAMILY APART IS THE MIDDLE-GRADE ANSWER TO CHRISTINA BAKER KLINE'S NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING ORPHAN TRAIN. Imagine being taken from your home. Imagine your mother is the one who lets it happen. This is the fate that befalls the Kelly children. It’s 1856, and their widowed mother has sent them west from New York City because she’s convinced that she can’t give them the life they deserve. The Kellys board an “orphan train” and are taken to St. Joseph, Missouri, where their problems only grow worse. It was bad enough that they had to say goodbye to their mother, but now they’re forced to part ways with their fellow siblings as well. Thirteen-year-old Frances won’t stand for it. She’s going to protect her brothers and sisters, even if it means dressing up like a boy and putting herself in danger. Will Frances be able to save her siblings? And what about her mom—was splitting up their family really her greatest act of love? Ride the rails with Frances and her siblings to find out! “This is as close to a perfect book as you’ll buy this year.” –VOYA
Connie of Kettle Street
Author: Carol Rivers
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781416511380
Category : Docklands (London, England)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A gripping wartime saga, set in London's East End
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781416511380
Category : Docklands (London, England)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A gripping wartime saga, set in London's East End
A Home for Unloved Orphans
Author: Rachel Wesson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781538707739
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
Fans of Before We Were Yours will adore this USA Today bestselling historical novel: A heartbreaking yet hopeful tale about a brave young woman who gives up everything to help unloved children--and shows that a little bit of kindness can go a long way. Never in a million years did Lauren Greenwood think she would be destitute and without a penny to her name. But when her father mercilessly disowns her in the depths of winter, that is her fate. Now homeless, Lauren finds America in the devastating grip of the Great Depression--children run wild in the icy streets, endless queues for soup kitchens line frosty sidewalks, and desperation hangs in the air. All alone in the world, Lauren finds an orphanage in the sprawling fields of the Virginia countryside, surrounded by snow-topped mountains and magnificent fir trees--a safe haven for those who have nowhere to go. But she is appalled to find children living in shocking conditions, huddled together for warmth, their hunger keeping them awake at night as the temperature plunges. The home for unloved orphans is on the brink of closure and the helpless innocents may lose the roof over their heads... Lauren, heartbroken by the rejection of her own father, vows to provide these poor orphans with the love she never received. With Christmas just around the corner, she refuses to see them cast out onto the street, where they will not survive. When she sees an advertisement in the local newspaper, with an anonymous benefactor donating money to families crippled by the Depression, it could be the answer to her prayers. Can Lauren save these children who have been rejected by the world? Or in a time of so much suffering, is there simply no hope?
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781538707739
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
Fans of Before We Were Yours will adore this USA Today bestselling historical novel: A heartbreaking yet hopeful tale about a brave young woman who gives up everything to help unloved children--and shows that a little bit of kindness can go a long way. Never in a million years did Lauren Greenwood think she would be destitute and without a penny to her name. But when her father mercilessly disowns her in the depths of winter, that is her fate. Now homeless, Lauren finds America in the devastating grip of the Great Depression--children run wild in the icy streets, endless queues for soup kitchens line frosty sidewalks, and desperation hangs in the air. All alone in the world, Lauren finds an orphanage in the sprawling fields of the Virginia countryside, surrounded by snow-topped mountains and magnificent fir trees--a safe haven for those who have nowhere to go. But she is appalled to find children living in shocking conditions, huddled together for warmth, their hunger keeping them awake at night as the temperature plunges. The home for unloved orphans is on the brink of closure and the helpless innocents may lose the roof over their heads... Lauren, heartbroken by the rejection of her own father, vows to provide these poor orphans with the love she never received. With Christmas just around the corner, she refuses to see them cast out onto the street, where they will not survive. When she sees an advertisement in the local newspaper, with an anonymous benefactor donating money to families crippled by the Depression, it could be the answer to her prayers. Can Lauren save these children who have been rejected by the world? Or in a time of so much suffering, is there simply no hope?