Marian Hale
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
In Canton, Texas, seventeen-year-old Mercy's dreams of a different life than her mother's are postponed by harsh circumstances, including the influenza epidemic of 1918-19, which forces her into doing domestic work for a loving, if troubled, family.
Author
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
Sadie doesn’t want a new life; her old one suits her just fine. But times are hard in drought-plagued Missouri, and Daddy thinks they’ll be better off in Texas. It’s tough for Sadie to give up her beloved home for this strange place, where even children clean shrimp at the cannery to help make ends meet and where people are rude to her disabled father.
Yet when trouble comes, it is the kindness of these new neighbors that helps...
Yet when trouble comes, it is the kindness of these new neighbors that helps...