Cinnamon Moon
| Author | : Tess Hilmo |
| Publisher | : Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR) |
| Total Pages | : 257 |
| Release | : 2016-10-18 |
| ISBN-10 | : 9780374302832 |
| ISBN-13 | : 0374302839 |
| Rating | : 4/5 (32 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: On the same day as the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, 250 miles away in Peshtigo, Wisconsin, there was an even more devastating fire. Twelve-year-old Ailis and her younger brother, Quinn, survive, but their family does not. Ailis and Quinn are taken by a family acquaintance to live in a boarding house in Chicago, where they meet six-year-old Nettie, an orphan displaced by Chicago's fire. But the woman who runs the boarding house makes their lives miserable, and Ailis vows to find a way for the three of them to leave. Ailis finds a job at a millinery shop and Quinn plays his fiddle on the streets so they can save money. Then Nettie disappears, and Ailis and Quinn discover she's been kidnapped by a group that forces children to work in the sewers killing rats. Can they find a way to rescue her? CINNAMON MOON is Tess Hilmo's riveting story of friendship and finding home. A Margaret Ferguson Book
