My life before me
By: Norah McClintock
Series: Secrets; Secrets (Victoria, B.C.)
Publisher: Orca Book Publishers
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Victoria, British Columbia
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781459806634; 9781459806641; 9781459806627
Subjects: Family secrets; Orphans; General; Juvenile fiction; Historical; Reporters and reporting; Fiction; JUVENILE FICTION
Description: Cady has always wanted to be a reporter, like her hero Nellie Bly, so after a fire burns down the orphanage she lives in, she?s ready to leave small-town Ontario and make her mark as a newspaperwoman. A crumbling newspaper clipping leads her to Orrenstown, Indiana, where her investigation into a long-ago murder earns her a hard lesson in race relations. Smart and determined, and more than a little headstrong, Cady pokes a stick into a wasp?s nest of lies, dirty politics, corrupt law enforcement and racial tension?and ends up fearing for her life as she closes in on something she?s never cared about before?the truth about her own origins.
Table of contents: title: Cover Page; Title Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Chapter One: My Story Begins; Chapter Two: My Life Goes Up In Flames; Chapter Three: I Am Handed a Mysterious Envelope; Chapter Four: My Dreams Are Dashed; Chapter Five: I Put My New Plan Into Action; Chapter Six: I Find the Mysterious Grave; Chapter Seven: I Visit a Morgue; Chapter Eight: I Discover That Nothing Is As Easy As It Looks; Chapter Nine: I Start Asking Questions; Chapter Ten: I Hear the Other Side of the Story; Chapter Eleven: I Follow a New Lead; Chapter Twelve: Another Fire.; title: Chapter Thirteen: I Hit a Dead End and Find a New Line of InquiryChapter Fourteen: I Am Followed By an Angry Mob; Chapter Fifteen: I Visit the Scene of the Crime; Chapter Sixteen: I Am Given Another Photograph; Chapter Seventeen: I Go to the Big House; Chapter Eighteen: I Go Into the Woods; Chapter Nineteen: I Find Something Unexpected-and Horrific; Chapter Twenty: A Photo, a Note and a Killer; Chapter Twenty-One: I Catch a Murderer; Chapter Twenty-Two: I Get My Story; Acknowledgments; Copyright Page.