Gwen
By: by Carolyn Pogue
Publisher: Sumach Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Toronto
Language: eng
Number of pages: 157
ISBN-13: 9781894549806
Subjects: Home children (Canadian immigrants); Juvenile fiction; Enfants abandonnes britanniques (Immigrants canadiens); Romans, nouvelles, etc. pour la jeunesse; Household employees; Fiction; Orphans
Description: When Gwen is orphaned at the age of eleven, she seizes the opportunity to become a Home Child and is trained to work as a maid for placement with a family in Canada. But when trouble comes her way in Toronto, Gwen takes matters into her own hands and escapes into the night. She undertakes a long dangerous trek following the train tracks back to the only safe haven she knows: Cedarbrae, the Home in Peterborough.