The Ornament Tree

by Jean Thesman. Houghton Mifflin Co.

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When fourteen-year-old Bonnie moves to her cousin's boardinghouse in Seattle in 1918, she learns about life from the boarders and progressive women who live and work there. Bonnie Shaster, fourteen and recently orphaned, arrives at her cousin Audra's Seattle boarding house in 1918 and struggles to find her place among a disorderly group of progressive ladies and outspoken gentlemen boarders, among them a handsome but embittered young man blinded in the Great War.

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ISBN:

0395742781

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Best Books for Young Adults 1997 - Selection(s)

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