What Momma Left Behind

by Cindy K. Sproles

Book Overview

Worie Dressar is 17 years old when influenza and typhoid ravage her Appalachian Mountain community in 1877, leaving behind a growing number of orphaned children with no way to care for themselves. Worie's mother has been secretly feeding a number of these little ones on Sourwood Mountain. But when she dies suddenly, Worie is left to figure out why and how she was caring for them.

Plagued with two good-for-nothing brothers--one greedy and the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0800737040
• ISBN13: 9780800737047
• Release Date: June 2020
• Publisher: Fleming H. Revell Company
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.4" x 8.4"

Customer Reviews

What are your roots?

What Momma Left Behind by Cindy K. Sproles Format: Paperback Pages: 256 Publisher: Revell Reviewed by: mrsboone4 What Momma Left Behind opens with an explosion and doesn't disappoint all the way through. Worri Dressar's momma left her. Leaving behind all of the many orphans of all ages, that Momma took care of. Her family is poor, but that hasn't prevented her momma from giving a little beans here and a dumpling there to all of the orphaned children, left alone since their parents have died from the fever. Worri jumps in and opens her home to the orphans that come to her, seeking her momma. Worri has 2 brothers, Justice who is addicted to his hooch and Calvin who is mean and lazy. Justice is in jail and Calvin is off who knows where, stirring up trouble. Friends of the family, Ely and Bessie, they are both former slaves, that came from a plantation with Worri's momma. They give a lot of help and support to Worri and the orphans. Pastor Jess is also instrumental in helping Worri achieve things that she never would have been able to do on her own. I have already read this book twice and I'm contemplating reading it for a third time. Really, really good book. Made itself to home on my favorite's shelf.