Welcome to Litsy!

She came from the most terrifying environment- a brutal orphanage in Ukraine. She was born with birth defects from radiation poisoning, including webbed fingers, no thumbs, and missing weight-bearing bones in her legs. She was given up for adoption and spent time in three orphanages before being adopted by Gay Masters. Incredible story of courage and perseverance 💔

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An incredibly interesting read, based on true events though with fictional characters, and one that truly felt like someone telling their story. Reading it very much felt true in that way where maybe these exact people weren‘t real but everything that happened to them almost certainly happened to someone. I highly recommend it, though if you‘re prone to tears I recommend keeping tissue nearby.

The best historical fiction books are the ones that teach you about a seemingly forgotten time in our history. Between 1854 and 1929, these Orphan Trains transported more than 200,000 orphaned, abandoned, and homeless children – many of them first-generation Irish Catholic immigrants – from the coastal cities of the eastern United States to the Midwest for “adoption” (often, in fact, indentured servitude).

#5JoysFriday @DebinHawaii
1. Successful sourdough class and loaf with my youngest daughter and my friend, feeding my starter daily with a new loaf in the works today!
2. My first #litsylove mail ❤️
3. After work party fun, really enjoying my DOC family in the home stretch
4. Laughing til I cried
5. Eldest daughter‘s successful oral surgery today🎉

Thank you the tag @Kshakal

This isn't my favorite of Kjelgaard's book, but it's still an enjoyable read. 12-year-old Bud is “farmed out“ from the orphanage to an older couple on a farm. But it turns out that they're just lonely now that all their kids have moved on and while they do need help around the farm, they're mostly just wanting to help a kid who needs it. Bud is wary at first, but gradually comes to love the couple and their home. His first week there, he comes ⬇

Spending my work lunch snacking on some cheese and continuing The Dust Bowl Orphans. I'm about half way theough and enjoying it so far. I'm enjoying the chapters during the dust bowl much more than the present day chapters. I don't feel like the past-present chapters are always necessary.

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A lonely rich girl impulsively swaps places with a girl named Shona while being evacuated because of the London Blitz, and finds a whole new family and life. One of my favorites.

#5JoysFriday @DebinHawaii Thanks for the tag @Kshakal

I‘m a day late but have so much to be thankful for, so much joy with a week bookended with Mother‘s Day and my birthday. Best week!

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🔟 Struggled to get through this as I felt it was quite slow and I wasn‘t really that bonded to any of the characters! I had visited the Titanic Museum in Pigeon Forge and had read about the Titanic Orphans there, an incredible story really but I felt it took a lonnnng time to get to it.