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When twelve-year-old Florence boards the crowded horse-drawn coach in London, she looks forward to a new life with her great uncle and aunt at Crutchfield Hall, an old manor house in the English countryside. Anything will be better, she thinks, than the grim London orphanage where she has... read more
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In the nineteenth century, twelve year old Florence Crutchfield leaves a London orphanage to live with her great-uncle, great-aunt, and sickly cousin James, but she soon realizes the home has another resident, who means to do her and James harm.
Characters/People edit
- Florence: main character, 12 year old orphan girl who goes to live her great uncle
- Master James: florences cosin
- Sophia: james sister
- Mrs. Dawson: cook of Crutchfield Hall becomes florenses friend
- Nellie: maid of Crutchfield Hall; around the age of Florence becomes florences frined not mean
- Samuel Spratt: grounds keeper of Crutchfield Hall and takes care of the garden
- Eugenie: Florence's great aunt; lady of Crutchfield Hall who hates florence
- Miss Beatty: employee of Miss Medleycoate's orphanage loves florence
- Mr. Graybeale: an attorney who handled Florence's custody from the orphanage to Crutchfield Hall and hellpoed her go away to live with her uncle.
First Sentence edit
"TAKE GOOD CARE OF THIS GIRL," Miss Beatty told the coachman.
Table of Contents edit
Numbered Chapters, 1-14
Authors & Contributors edit
- Mary Downing Hahn (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Clarion Books
Country: United States of America
Publication Date: 2010
ISBN: 9780547385600
Page Count: 153
Publisher: Clarion Books
Country: United States of America
Publication Date: 2010
ISBN: 9780547385600
Page Count: 153
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: PZ7.H126Gho2010
- Dewey: Add the Dewey Classification.
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