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001			on1177861954
003			OCoLC
005			20200911111952.0
008			200714t20202020nyu e 000 1 eng d
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019			_a1178874660
020			_a9781496715869 _q(paperback)
020			_a1496715861 _q(paperback)
035			_a(OCoLC)1177861954 _z(OCoLC)1178874660
043			_an-us-pa
092			_aWISEMAN, _bELLEN
049			_aNFGA
100	1		_aWiseman, Ellen Marie, _eauthor. _96991
245	1	4	_aThe orphan collector / _cEllen Marie Wiseman.
264		1	_aNew York, NY : _bKensington Books, _c[2020]
264		4	_c©2020
300			_a392 pages ; _c21 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
500			_a"A novel"--Cover.
500			_aIncludes a reading group guide.
520			_a"In the fall of 1918, thirteen-year-old German immigrant Pia Lange longs to be far from Philadelphia's overcrowded slums and the anti-immigrant sentiment that compelled her father to enlist in the U.S. Army. But as her city celebrates the end of war, an even more urgent threat arrives: the Spanish flu. Funeral crepe and quarantine signs appear on doors as victims drop dead in the streets and desperate survivors wear white masks to ward off illness. When food runs out in the cramped tenement she calls home, Pia must venture alone into the quarantined city in search of supplies, leaving her baby brothers behind. Bernice Groves has become lost in grief and bitterness since her baby died from the Spanish flu. Watching Pia leave her brothers alone, Bernice makes a shocking, life-altering decision. It becomes her sinister mission to tear families apart when they're at their most vulnerable, planning to transform the city's orphans and immigrant children into what she feels are "true Americans." Waking in a makeshift hospital days after collapsing in the street, Pia is frantic to return home. Instead, she is taken to St. Vincent's Orphan Asylum - the first step in a long and arduous journey. As Bernice plots to keep the truth hidden at any cost in the months and years that follow, Pia must confront her own shame and fear, risking everything to see justice - and love - triumph at last. Powerful, harrowing, and ultimately exultant, The Orphan Collector is a story of love, resilience, and the lengths we will go to protect those who need us most.-- _cPublisher's description.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (page 381).
650		0	_aInfluenza Epidemic, 1918-1919 _vFiction. _9192159
650		0	_aImmigrants _vFiction. _951249
650		0	_aOrphans _vFiction. _92357
650		0	_aOrphanages _vFiction. _92854
650		0	_aJustice _vFiction. _9131267
650		0	_aAmericanization _vFiction. _9367685
650		0	_aGerman American families _zPennsylvania _zPhiladelphia _vFiction.
651		0	_aPhiladelphia (Pa.) _vFiction. _93758
655		7	_aHistorical fiction. _2lcgft _9683
655		7	_aBildungsromans. _2lcgft _921488
994			_aC0 _bNFG
999			_c316008 _d316008