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A young disabled girl and her brother are evacuated from London to the English countryside during World War II, where they find life to be much sweeter away from their abusive mother.

In March of 1887, Rocco, an eleven-year-old from an Italian village, arrives in New York CIty where he is forced to live in squalor and beg for money as a street musician, but he finds the city's cruelty to children and animals intolerable and sets out to make things better, whatever the cost to himself.

A battered child learns to embrace life when he is adopted by an old man in the English country-side during the second world war.

Josie and Alec communicate via a spirit board, realize they are living in the same house a century apart, and develop a life-changing friendship.--Provided by Publisher.