Orphan at My Door
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| Orphan at My Door | |
 Orphan at My Door: The Home Child Diary of Victoria Cope, Guelph, Ontario, 1897 |
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| Author | Jean Little |
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| Country | Canada |
| Language | English |
| Series | Dear Canada |
| Genre(s) | Historical fiction |
| Publisher | Scholastic Canada Ltd. |
| Publication date | September, 2001 |
| Media type | Print (Hardcover) |
| Pages | 221 |
| ISBN | 0-439-98834-9 |
| Followed by | A Prairie as Wide as the Sea |
Orphan at My Door, written by Jean Little, is the first book in the Dear Canada series of novels wrriten by various artists. The book is a diary about a fictional character named Victoria. There is an epilogue, historical note and some black and white pictures in the back of the book. There is also an "About the Author" at the very back. It is suggested that Jean Little is the creator of Dear Canada because was the one that wrote the first book in the series, but truly, the creator of Dear Canada is unknown.
Orphan at My Door was first printed and released in Canada during September of 2001 by Scholastic Canada Ltd. Orphan at My Door is only to be printed in the English language and in Canada.
[edit] Plot
Victoria Cope's mother has suddenly taken ill and seems to gain more and more weight everyday. Will she survive through the hot exhausting summer? Meanwhile, her father is putting orders in for a home boy at Barnardo's in Peterborough. They end with a young girl named Marianna, or as Victoria calls her Mary Anna Wilson. Something seems to be distracting Marianna and one night Victoria wakes up and finds Marianna in the barn with her younger brother, Jasper, who had escaped the harshness of a man from across the town. Victoria helps Marianna clean up Jasper's cuts and finally... show him to her parents. Will they accept Jasper into the household, send him back to the mean, old man, or will the man get enough information and come looking for Jasper himself? And Victoria's brother isn't doing any help, he is just becoming snottier every day...
[edit] Excerpt
Here is an excerpt from Victoria's diary:
Saturday, May 29, Bedtime
We went and got our home girl today. She is very small and shy. Her name is Mary Anna Wilson and she is twelve years old. She is smaller than I am and very thin. She looks as though she is ten. She won't make fun of my looks...
