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The orphan collector / Ellen Marie Wiseman.
"In the fall of 1918, thirteen-year-old German immigrant Pia is left to tend to her infant twin brothers after her father enlists in the Army. Since her baby died days ago, Bernice Groves has been lost in grief and bitterness. Bernice plans to transform the city's orphans and immigrant children into what she feels are "true Americans." When Pia returns home one day her brothers are gone. It will be a long and arduous journey to learn what happened even as Bernice plots to keep the truth hidden at any cost." -- Provided by publisher
Record details
- ISBN: 9781643587608
- ISBN: 1643587609
- Physical Description: 614 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
- Edition: Center Point Large Print edition.
- Publisher: Thorndike, ME : Center Point Large Print, 2021.
- Copyright: ©2020
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| Subject: | Influenza Epidemic, 1918-1919 > Fiction. Immigrants > Fiction. Orphans > Fiction. Orphanages > Fiction. Justice > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Large print books. Historical fiction. Bildungsromans. Novels. |
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Summary
The Orphan Collector
In the fall of 1918, thirteen-year-old German immigrant Pia Lange longs to be far from Philadelphia's overcrowded slums and the anti-immigrant sentiment that compelled her father to enlist in the U.S. Army. But as her city celebrates the end of war, an even more urgent threat arrives: the Spanish flu. Funeral crepe and quarantine signs appear on doors as victims drop dead in the streets and desperate survivors wear white masks to ward off illness. When food runs out in the cramped tenement she calls home, Pia must venture alone into the quarantined city in search of supplies, leaving her baby brothers behind.
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