Title: Freckles
Description: Orphaned and maimed, Freckles' bitterness about his fate is lessened when he is hired to guard a stretch of lumber in the wild Limberlost and, after meeting the beautiful "Swamp Angel," he determines to find out about his past.
**(Wikipedia about author) Gene Stratton-Porter (August 17, 1863 – December 6, 1924), born Geneva Grace Stratton, was a Wabash County, Indiana, native who became a self-trained American author, nature photographer, and naturalist. In 1917 Stratton-Porter used her position and influence as a popular, well-known author to urge legislative support for the conservation of Limberlost Swamp and other wetlands in the state of Indiana. She was also a silent film-era producer who founded her own production company, Gene Stratton Porter Productions, in 1924.
Subjects: Classics, Limberlost-Freckles Series, Juvenile Fiction, Family, Love, Orphans, Orphanages, Foster Homes, Irish Americans, Plant-life, Plants, Nature, Photography, Limberlost timber, Swamps, Undamaged land, Forest, Trees, Natural Environment, Fiction, general, People with disabilities, fiction, Indiana, fiction
Places: Grand Rapids, Limberlost, Ireland, Indiana
People: Charles Darwin Porter
Time periods: Late 1800s