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With no food at home for her baby brothers and no one else to go out and get it, in 1918, with the Spanish flu claiming lives in droves in Philadelphia, thirteen year old German immigrant Pia Lange makes a desperate decision: She leaves her brothers home alone so she can go find food. Bernice Groves sees her leave and makes a decision of her own, one that will lead to a longterm quest to turn immigrant children into “true Americans” by ripping them away from their families.
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