Fifteen year old Connie Sinclair struggles to find a way to support herself after running away from home, a poor dirt farm in western Pennsylvania. Arriving in Pittsburgh, she experiences many disappointments. Finally she lies about her name and age to meet the enrollment requirements of a hospital nurse's training program of the 1920s. Connie rotates through the kitchen, laundry, and central supply while learning how to take care of and comfort sick patients, how to give treatments for the common diseases of that era, and how to get along with other students, superiors, patients and...
Fifteen year old Connie Sinclair struggles to find a way to support herself after running away from home, a poor dirt farm in western Pennsylvania. Ar...
Nadia is the coming-of-age story of a young Catholic girl growing up in the outskirts of Warsaw during WWII and of her personal quest to fight injustice by joining the Polish underground. She befriends a Jewish boy her parents hide in their attic, a Gypsy girl she finds in a tree in her back yard and lastly, Henryk, the boy who wants to spend the rest of his life with her. Nadia's story is a window to a history chronicling the Nazi occupation and the Russian invasion. An unforgettable, compelling character who finds the courage to act and the...
Nadia is the coming-of-age story of a young Catholic girl growing up in the outskirts of Warsaw during WWII and of her personal quest to fight inju...
