The Orphan Rescue
Title | The Orphan Rescue PDF eBook |
Author | Anne Dublin |
Publisher | Second Story Press |
Pages | 78 |
Release | 2010-09-15 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 1926920104 |
The Orphan Rescue is inspired by a story from author Anne Dublin's own family history. Set during the spring of 1937 in the small city of Sosnowiec, Poland, it is the story of twelve-year-old Miriam and her younger brother, David. They live with their grandparents, having lost their own parents to illness and poverty. The family does not have much -- they live together in one room behind the grandfather's shop and often there isn't enough food for the four of them -- but they have each other. Miriam is devastated when her grandparents tell her that they can no longer survive as a family, and that the only solution is for David to go to an orphanage. Leaving her young brother behind with strangers breaks her heart, and Miriam decides to rescue him. When Miriam learns that David is being forced to work in a factory by the unscrupulous orphanage director, she realizes that rescuing him may prove difficult. The Orphan Rescue is a historical novel that resonates with the ongoing tragedy of child poverty and the exploitation of children around the world. It also offers a window onto the history of Jews in Europe pre-Holocaust. All of this in an accessible, entertaining story for young readers.
The Child Catchers
Title | The Child Catchers PDF eBook |
Author | Kathryn Joyce |
Publisher | Public Affairs |
Pages | 354 |
Release | 2013-04-23 |
Genre | Family & Relationships |
ISBN | 1586489429 |
Adoption has long been enmeshed in the politics of abortion. But as award-winning journalist Joyce makes clear, adoption has lately become entangled in the conservative Christian agenda.
Last Airlift
Title | Last Airlift PDF eBook |
Author | Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch |
Publisher | Pajama Press Inc. |
Pages | 121 |
Release | 2011-11-01 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 098694954X |
Recounts the story of Tuyet Son Thi Ahn, a girl from a Saigon orphanage who is airlifted out of Saigon in spring of 1975, and finally adopted by a Canadian family.
Orca Rescue!
Title | Orca Rescue! PDF eBook |
Author | Donna Sandstrom |
Publisher | Kids Can Press Ltd |
Pages | 144 |
Release | 2021-10-05 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 1525309420 |
A captivating first-person story of a real-life orca rescue! When a young orca was spotted alone in Puget Sound, no one knew where she’d come from, but they knew it was dangerous for her to be left there alone. Scientists and researchers from two countries had to work together to determine where the orca came from, and then to decide how to save her. The riveting story is told by Donna Sandstrom, a citizen volunteer with the rescue effort. From identifying the orca as a missing calf named Springer, to transporting her to the north end of Vancouver Island, where she was reunited with her family, this book gives readers behind-the-scenes details on the only successful orca rescue and reunion ever! Kids will be thrilled to be part of the mission, when a little lost orca is brought home!
The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction
Title | The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction PDF eBook |
Author | Linda Gordon |
Publisher | Harvard University Press |
Pages | 433 |
Release | 2011-02-09 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0674061713 |
In 1904, New York nuns brought forty Irish orphans to a remote Arizona mining camp, to be placed with Catholic families. The Catholic families were Mexican, as was the majority of the population. Soon the town's Anglos, furious at this "interracial" transgression, formed a vigilante squad that kidnapped the children and nearly lynched the nuns and the local priest. The Catholic Church sued to get its wards back, but all the courts, including the U.S. Supreme Court, ruled in favor of the vigilantes. The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction tells this disturbing and dramatic tale to illuminate the creation of racial boundaries along the Mexican border. Clifton/Morenci, Arizona, was a "wild West" boomtown, where the mines and smelters pulled in thousands of Mexican immigrant workers. Racial walls hardened as the mines became big business and whiteness became a marker of superiority. These already volatile race and class relations produced passions that erupted in the "orphan incident." To the Anglos of Clifton/Morenci, placing a white child with a Mexican family was tantamount to child abuse, and they saw their kidnapping as a rescue. Women initiated both sides of this confrontation. Mexican women agreed to take in these orphans, both serving their church and asserting a maternal prerogative; Anglo women believed they had to "save" the orphans, and they organized a vigilante squad to do it. In retelling this nearly forgotten piece of American history, Linda Gordon brilliantly recreates and dissects the tangled intersection of family and racial values, in a gripping story that resonates with today's conflicts over the "best interests of the child."
The Rescue of an Orphan
Title | The Rescue of an Orphan PDF eBook |
Author | Dean Leslie |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2024-06-20 |
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Rescue Pup
Title | Rescue Pup PDF eBook |
Author | Jean Little |
Publisher | Orca Book Publishers |
Pages | 107 |
Release | 2004-09-01 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 155143458X |
Shakespeare is a Seeing Eye puppy. But before the time comes for him to train with a blind person, he must spend six months with a girl who has never learned to love. He does all he can to teach her, but the job places him in some dangerous situations and by the end of the story he has earned the title Rescue Pup. Rescue Pup is the first of two books in a series. Book two is Forward, Shakespeare!