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Brooke, Peggy

Jake's Orphan

261 pp. | DK Ink/Kroupa | April, 2000 | Trade ISBN 0-7894-2628-5 $$16.95
(2) 4-6 Twelve-year-old Tree leaves the St. Paul Orphanage to stay with a North Dakota farm couple, the Gundersons, but because they only want one boy, Tree's younger brother is left behind. The only light in Tree's life is Jake, Mr. Gunderson's brother, who finds ways to intervene on Tree's behalf. The characters are all memorable in this compelling first-person novel set in 1926.
Reviewer: Mary M. Burns | Horn Book Magazine Issue: July, 2000

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