Title: Tending Ben's garden
Description: In 1929, twelve-year-old Kate risks her life trying to keep a promise always to look after her gentle little brother, Ben, who their destitute, widowed mother allowed to be adopted by a wealthy family in an attempt to get the rest of the family through the Depression.
Subjects: Fiction, Depressions, Brothers and sisters, Tramps, Family life, Poverty, Gardening, History, Children's fiction, Brothers and sisters, fiction, Depressions, fiction, Family life, fiction, Michigan, fiction, Gardening, fiction, Poverty, fiction, Tramps, fiction
Places: Michigan
Time periods: 1929, 20th century