Home Child
The year is 1914. Thirteen-year-old Arthur is a "home child" who has just been sent from an orphanage in England to work on a Canadian farm. Sadie, a year younger, surreptitiously develops a friendship with Arthur despite her mother's warnings to keep away from him. Then Arthur saves the house from a fire she carelessly started. Will Sadie reciprocate by taking a stand for Arthur against her mother's rules?
Home Child explores how Home Children - and their American counterparts on the Orphan Train - experienced being displaced, enslaved and ostracized.
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This is the fourth Haworth-Attard I've read. I always enjoy her books.
The family in this story frustrates me. Arthur is pretty much a slave they picked up for free. He’s a CHILD. ugh. The mother and oldest daughter make me the most mad. Stupid old-timey people. I couldn’t imagine treating a child so poorly. And to know that in real life they were treated worse just blows my mind. What the hell Canada?!
The family in this story frustrates me. Arthur is pretty much a slave they picked up for free. He’s a CHILD. ugh. The mother and oldest daughter make me the most mad. Stupid old-timey people. I couldn’t imagine treating a child so poorly. And to know that in real life they were treated worse just blows my mind. What the hell Canada?!
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