On the deck of the Windermere, a sickly nine-year-old girl hides her face in a blue sun-bonnet, sure that nobody wants to see her. Mary Howard’s family settles in Chicopee in New England, but loss sends her to the poorhouse, among eccentrics like Sal Furbush, before kindness, schooling and patience slowly win her a place in the world.
An early success for one of America’s most popular domestic novelists, written in the vein of The Wide, Wide World. Download the free EPUB.