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School Library Journal
Reviewed on April 1, 2011 | Grades 5-up
Gr 7–10—Grace, 15, and her mentally slow sister, Lily, 17, have next to nothing. Their mother is dead, and their father left to try to make his fortune in America before Grace was born. They live in a small, shabby boardinghouse and barely sustain themselves by selling watercress on the streets of London. The girls had lived in a home where Grace was being trained as a teacher until she was raped and became pregnant. When the child is stillborn, she must find a...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Guide
Reviewed on January 1, 2011
Victorian London offers few opportunities for impoverished young women, even hardworking ones like Grace and her mentally disabled sister, Lil...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
