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Vanessa Ann Clemens, orphaned at the age of four and living in Mr. Carey's orphanage, is turning 14. This is the age when orphans must leave to make their way in the world and Mr. Carey's plans for Nessa are frightening. Her best friend Albert has just been apprenticed as a newsboy and he, along with her teacher, Miss Eva, serve as confidants to Nessa's plan to change her undesirable fate. Just after the end of the Civil War, within days of Lincoln's assassination and the morning after her 14th birthday, Nessa escapes her fate in Independence, Missouri by stagecoach. With some savings and…
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1 edition- Other · English · 2003Scholastic Paperbacks · 213 pages · 9780439439916
FictionChristian fictionFrontier and pioneer lifeOrphansChristian lifeChildren's fictionKansas, fictionWest (u.s.), fiction