Before we were yours
Record details
- ISBN: 1432839128
- ISBN: 9781432839123
- Physical Description: 605 pages ; 22 cm.
- Edition: Large print edition.
- Publisher: Waterville, Maine : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning, 2017. ©2017.
- Copyright: 2017.
Content descriptions
Target Audience Note: | HL760L Lexile |
Study Program Information Note: | Accelerated Reader AR UG 5.1 18 195183. |
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Subject: | Genre Fiction > Historical Genre Fiction > Family Saga Orphanages Fiction Siblings Fiction |
Genre: | Historical fiction. Large print books. |
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Available copies
- 18 of 21 copies available at Missouri Evergreen.
Holds
- 3 current holds with 21 total copies.
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Little Dixie - Main Library - Moberly | LP F WINGATE (Text) | 2004067829 | Large Print | Available | - |
Little Dixie - Paris | LP F WINGATE (Text) | 2004129344 | Large Print | Available | - |
Livingston County Library - Main Library | LP F Wingate (Text) | 2601778415 | Adult Large Print | Available | - |
Mississippi County - Clara Drinkwater Newnam Library | LP WIN (Text) | 38530100659798 | Adult Large Print | Available | - |
Montgomery City Public Library | LP WIN (Text) | 31927000017202 | Adult Large Print | Available | - |
North Kansas City Public Library | LP FICTION WINGATE 2017 (Text) | 0001002330403 | Large Print | Available | - |
Scenic Regional-Union | LP FIC WIN (Text) | 3007935032 | Large Print Fiction | Available | - |
Seymour Community Library | LP FIC WIN (Text) | 34193000017757 | Fiction | In transit | - |
Ste. Genevieve County Library | LP Fic Wingate, Lisa (Text) | 33358000297658 | Large Print Fiction | Available | - |
Washington Public Library | LP F WIN (Text) | 3150971160 | Large Print-Fiction | Checked out | 04/28/2024 |
Summary:
Two families, generations apart, are forever changed by a heartbreaking injustice in this poignant novel, inspired by a true story, for readers of Orphan Train and The Nightingale.---Memphis, 1939. Twelve-year-old Rill Foss and her four younger siblings live a magical life aboard their family's Mississippi River shantyboat. But when their father must rush their mother to the hospital one stormy night, Rill is left in charge--until strangers arrive in force. Wrenched from all that is familiar and thrown into a Tennessee Children's Home Society orphanage, the Foss children are assured that they will soon be returned to their parents--but they quickly realize the dark truth. At the mercy of the facility's cruel director, Rill fights to keep her sisters and brother together in a world of danger and uncertainty.Aiken, South Carolina, present day. Born into wealth and privilege, Avery Stafford seems to have it all: a successful career as a federal prosecutor, a handsome fiancé, and a lavish wedding on the horizon. But when Avery returns home to help her father weather a health crisis, a chance encounter leaves her with uncomfortable questions and compels her to take a journey through her family's long-hidden history, on a path that will ultimately lead either to devastation or to redemption.Based on one of America's most notorious real-life scandals--in which Georgia Tann, director of a Memphis-based adoption organization, kidnapped and sold poor children to wealthy families all over the country--Lisa Wingate's riveting, wrenching, and ultimately uplifting tale reminds us how, even though the paths we take can lead to many places, the heart never forgets where we belong.