Hellie Jondoe
By: Randall Platt.
Publisher: Texas Tech University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Lubbock, Tex
Language: eng
Number of pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9780896726635
Subjects: Orphans -- Fiction; Orphan trains -- Fiction; Oregon -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction
Description: In 1918, as the Great War ends and the Spanish influenza pandemic begins, thirteen-year-old Hellie Jondoe survives on the streets of New York as a beggar and pickpocket until she boards the orphan train to Oregon, where she learns about loyalty, honesty, and the meaning of family.