Title: Wild orphan
Description: In late 1920s Missouri, when hard times force her mother to take a night job, eleven-year-old Lizbeth is placed in an orphanage, where her loneliness and worry are eased by a new, if difficult, friendship.
Subjects: German Americans, Fiction, Mothers and daughters, Orphanages, Best friends, Friendship, History, Juvenile fiction
Places: Missouri
Time periods: 20th century