Each winning bookmark will be printed and available to all. All entries will be on display in the library. FLL thanks the school librarians for their enthusiastic support. To say this was a fantastic book simply doesn't begin to describe how much I loved this book. The story begins its first generation in the farmlands of Sweden in 1871 as seen through the eyes of a young child named Hanna.
Slavery is what it was.
And it was very common. Hanna was subjected to severe abuse - brutally raped by an older son in the house she served, and left with the title of whore while raising the son she bore at the age of 13. This story is not meant to be depressing though, just insight as to why she conducted her life as she did until her death in 1964. The next generation is Hanna's last child and only girl, Johanna, born in 1902. The story ends with Johanna's only child Anna.