Summer isn't looking good for Alana Alcott, an urban teacher of gifted students. She's been court ordered to teach summer school with Outward Bound instructor Mike Reynolds. Their students? Five unruly foster kids whose stories of abandonment mirror Alana's own childhood more than she wants to admit.
Mike, in particular, initially chafes on Alana's nerves. She sees him as an overgrown Boy Scout, promoting a nature-to-nurture philosophy that may or may not help their troubled students. And troubled they certainly are, with problems ranging from behavioral issues to a looming gang...
Summer isn't looking good for Alana Alcott, an urban teacher of gifted students. She's been court ordered to teach summer school with Outward Bound...
"Rescuing Children" is a powerful collection of biographical sketches centering on teachers, social workers, nuns, and missionaries in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries who stepped into the shadows to liberate children from disease, destitution, and despair.
Irena Sendler smuggled Jewish children out of the Warsaw Ghetto right under the Nazis' noses.
Dr. Thomas Barnardo started orphanages for the children of London's East End.
Bertha Bracey organized the Kindertransport during WWII, which saved ten thousand children from Nazi extermination.
Charles Loring Brace...
"Rescuing Children" is a powerful collection of biographical sketches centering on teachers, social workers, nuns, and missionaries in the late nin...
In 1890, Deirdre O'Sullivan lives in Five Points, New York City with her husband, son and four year old, Ava Rose. Pregnant with their third child, Deirdre works as a washerwoman at the hotel's laundry. If Sean works at all, he drinks his paycheck at the pub. When he is killed in an accident at work, Deirdre is devastated. She gives birth to another son, but cannot work at the laundry. The oldest son lives on the street as a newsie. Rather than let Ava Rose and her baby brother starve to death with her, she signs for them to be put on an orphan train. This orphan train takes these youngsters...
In 1890, Deirdre O'Sullivan lives in Five Points, New York City with her husband, son and four year old, Ava Rose. Pregnant with their third child, De...
Addy Meyer wants to teach children in a one room school house in Colorado during the 1930's Dust Bowl. Black Blizzards, the Board of Education, and bank president overwhelm her. Addy falls in love with the orphans her grandfather adopted, and her students, but vows to guard her heart against Jess Dettmann, who has a suspicious past. Foreclosure on grandpa's homestead threatens the security of all of them. Creating a quilt from Grandma's stash pile serves as a way for Addy to cope, but eventually leads to help and justice for her family. Despair, dust and drought weave through the Great...
Addy Meyer wants to teach children in a one room school house in Colorado during the 1930's Dust Bowl. Black Blizzards, the Board of Education, and ba...
Rescuing Children is a powerful collection of biographical sketches centering on teachers, social workers, nuns, and missionaries in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries who stepped into the shadows to liberate children from disease, destitution, and despair.
Irena Sendler smuggled Jewish children out of the Warsaw Ghetto right under the Nazis' noses.
Dr. Thomas Barnardo started orphanages for the children of London's East End.
Bertha Bracey organized the Kindertransport during WWII, which saved ten thousand children from Nazi extermination.
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Rescuing Children is a powerful collection of biographical sketches centering on teachers, social workers, nuns, and missionaries in the lat...
