The Accidental Orphan

By Constance Horne

Book Overview

Short-listed for the 1999 Silver Birch Award

Eleven-year-old Ellen finds herself wrongly accused of stealing while selling flowers on the Liverpool docks. In her escape she becomes a stowaway aboard a steamship bound for Canada, an unwilling member of a band of orphans headed for new families on the Prairies. Adopted by the Aitkens, a family on a Manitoba homestead, she soon lands herself at the centre of a number of calamities, unexpectedly learning about rural life in the New World and the value of family ties, both those forged in blood and those forged in trust.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 088878385X
• ISBN13: 9780888783851
• Release Date: March 1998
• Publisher: Dundurn Press
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 4.3" x 11.8"
• Age Range: 12 to 15 years
• Grade Range: Grades 7 to 10