Title: Nine Open Arms
Description: When the Boon family moves into an old, ramshackle house at the very edge of a small town in the Netherlands, Oma Mei, the grandmother of seven motherless children, relates the house's remarkable origin in the 1860s.
Subjects: History, Romanies, Fiction, Single-parent families, Grandmothers, Family life, Families, Juvenile fiction, Children's fiction, Family life, fiction, Netherlands, fiction, Single-parent families, fiction, Romanies, fiction
Places: Netherlands
Time periods: Wilhelmina, 1898-1948, 19th century