In Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline, a rebellious 17-year-old foster kid in Maine is sentenced to 50 hours of community service. She is assigned to help a reclusive 91-year-old woman clear out her attic. Through old keepsakes, the elderly widow reveals her deeply hidden past as an orphan who was relocated westward in the […]
Written in 1972, A Day No Pigs Would Die by Robert Newton Peck is a poignant coming-of-age novel set in rural Vermont during the 1920s. It follows twelve-year-old Rob Peck, who matures from a naive, bullied boy into a responsible young man through the harsh realities of farm life, familial sacrifice, and devastating loss. The
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