Title: Our John Willie
Description: When Davie and John Willie Halliday lose their father in a mine cave-in, the orphans are left to fend for themselves. Twelve-year-old Davie finds shelter for himself and John Willie, a deaf mute, on the grounds of the home of Miss Peamarsh, an eccentric recluse with a mysterious past. With the help of a drifter, Davie and John Willie free Miss Peamarsh from her painful secrets and she gives them a home.
Subjects: Fiction, Brothers and sisters, Orphans in fiction, Orphans, Brothers and sisters in fiction, Children's stories, Large type books, Fictional Works, Children's fiction, Orphans, fiction, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, Fiction, general, England, fiction
Places: Northern England
Time periods: set in the late 1800's