Title: Velvet
Description: Velvet is a laundress in a Victorian steam laundry. With both her mother and father dead, she is an orphan and has to rely upon her own wits to make a living. The laundry is scalding, back-breaking work and Velvet is desperate to create a better life for herself.
Subjects: Spiritualism, Premier's Reading Challenge, Young adult fiction, Impostors and imposture, Orphans, Fiction, Year 7, Mediums, Year 9., Children's fiction, Orphans, fiction, Great britain, history, 19th century, fiction