Tracey Porter
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 9
Formats
Description
In 1905, ten-year-old Billy is taken from an orphanage to live with an aunt and an uncle of whose existence he was previously unaware. He enjoys his first taste of family life until his work in a coal mine and his involvement with a union bring trouble. He then joins a circus in hopes of finding his father.
Author
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 6
Description
Although almost totally consumed by her ballet training and her obsession with controlling her weight, thirteen-year-old Delia finds time to worry about her strange and rebellious older sister Pearl, who has been sent away to a private school.