London, 1842. England is in turmoil and one young woman must carry the demands of both the living and the dead.
After the death of her mother an...
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Feb 09, 2012
Doug
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This is an excellent historical fiction novel. It takes place in England in the late 1800s and is told from the perspective of Maggie, a teenage girl who is left to care for her brother Thomas on the streets of London. Their father is a leader in the movement to improve conditions for the working class and is imprisoned on charges of creating a riot and other charges against the crown. This sends the family into poverty and they have to become scavengers just to stay alive. Soon the mother d
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Feb 09, 2012
Amy
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I won this book from the Member Giveaways on LibraryThing.
This book was not what I expected. I struggled through the first half of the book, but was determined to finish it. It started getting interesting for me about halfway through.
This is a story set in London's past. Three children are taken from the streets to a mansion outside London, owned by a Countess. These children are treated like royalty, but soon learn that something sinister is happening on the grounds of the More...
This book was not what I expected. I struggled through the first half of the book, but was determined to finish it. It started getting interesting for me about halfway through.
This is a story set in London's past. Three children are taken from the streets to a mansion outside London, owned by a Countess. These children are treated like royalty, but soon learn that something sinister is happening on the grounds of the More...
Feb 09, 2012
Publishers Weekly Review of my Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award (Young Adult Fiction Section) Semi Finalist 2011.
This powerful historical novel vividly evokes London in 1842 and the terrifying plight of 13-year-old Maggie Power and her younger brother Tom. With their mother dead and father unjustly imprisoned because he's a Chartist - a group fighting for the rights of the working class - the pair is left to endure a bleak existence as street children. Living in a shack and scrounging t More...
This powerful historical novel vividly evokes London in 1842 and the terrifying plight of 13-year-old Maggie Power and her younger brother Tom. With their mother dead and father unjustly imprisoned because he's a Chartist - a group fighting for the rights of the working class - the pair is left to endure a bleak existence as street children. Living in a shack and scrounging t More...
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