03587cam a2200601 i 4500 1161432116 TxAuBib 20240304120000.0 220210s2020||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2021286964 9781496715869 paperback 1496715861 paperback 9781496734679 Target Club Pick 149673467X Target Club Pick 1424031 Kensington Books (book club) TxAuBib rda Wiseman, Ellen Marie, author. The orphan collector / Ellen Marie Wiseman. New York, NY : Kensington Books, [2020] ©2020. 390 pages ; 21 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "Author of What She Left Behind"--Cover. Includes a reading group guide. Includes bibliographical references (page 380). "In the fall of 1918, thirteen-year-old German immigrant Pia Lange longs to be far from Philadelphia's overcrowded slums and the anti-immigrant sentiment that compelled her father to enlist in the U.S. Army. But as her city celebrates the end of war, an even more urgent threat arrives: the Spanish flu. Funeral crepe and quarantine signs appear on doors as victims drop dead in the streets and desperate survivors wear white masks to ward off illness. When food runs out in the cramped tenement she calls home, Pia must venture alone into the quarantined city in search of supplies, leaving her baby brothers behind. Bernice Groves has become lost in grief and bitterness since her baby died from the Spanish flu. Watching Pia leave her brothers alone, Bernice makes a shocking, life-altering decision. It becomes her sinister mission to tear families apart when they're at their most vulnerable, planning to transform the city's orphans and immigrant children into what she feels are "true Americans." Waking in a makeshift hospital days after collapsing in the street, Pia is frantic to return home. Instead, she is taken to St. Vincent's Orphan Asylum - the first step in a long and arduous journey. As Bernice plots to keep the truth hidden at any cost in the months and years that follow, Pia must confront her own shame and fear, risking everything to see justice--and love--triumph at last. Powerful, harrowing, and ultimately exultant, The Orphan Collector is a story of love, resilience, and the lengths we will go to protect those who need us most."-- Publisher's description. 20240304. 1918-1919. fast Influenza Epidemic, 1918-1919 Fiction. Immigrants Fiction. Orphans Fiction. Orphanages Fiction. Justice Fiction. Americanization Fiction. Americanization Fiction. German American families Pennsylvania Philadelphia Fiction. German American families Fiction. Americanization. fast German American families. fast Immigrants. fast Justice. fast Orphanages. fast Orphans. fast Philadelphia (Pa) Fiction. Pennsylvania fast Philadelphia. Bildungsromans. fast Fiction. fast Historical fiction. fast Historical fiction. fast Bildungsromans. fast