Weed Memorial & Hollander Branch Book Discussion via Zoom: The Orphan Collector by Ellen Marie Wiseman

The Orphan Collector by Ellen Marie Wiseman

In the fall of 1918, 13-year-old German immigrant Pia Lange longs to be far from Philadelphia's overcrowded streets. With no food at home, she must venture out in search of supplies, leaving her infant twin brothers alone.

Since her baby died days before from the Spanish flu, Bernice Groves has been lost in grief. If doctors hadn't been so busy tending to hordes of immigrants, perhaps they could have saved her son. When Bernice sees Pia leaving her tenement, she makes a shocking, life-altering decision that leads her on a sinister mission.

Pia cannot know that her brothers won't be home when she returns, and it will be a long journey to learn the truth of what happened. Only with persistence, and the courage to face her own fear, will Pia put the pieces together and find the strength to risk everything to see justice at last.

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