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Lost And Found
Lost And Found
Author: Marilyn Harris
On Christmas Eve, 1930, in America's dust bowl, a young woman delivers her baby alone. Plain, warmhearted Martha Drusso takes the downy-haired infant she names Belle to raise as her own, along with another orphan in her care, a little boy named R.C. — But when Belle is three, her stepbrother mistakenly puts her on a train bound for Los Angeles, t...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780517583333
ISBN-10: 051758333X
Publication Date: 8/27/1991
Pages: 438
Rating:
  • Currently 3.4/5 Stars.
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3.4 stars, based on 5 ratings
Publisher: Crown
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
Members Wishing: 0
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This is such a wonderful story. I hated to finish it as everyone in it had become my friend. Honestly I loved it and wish there was a sequal.
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Martha Drusso, heartbroken that her childhood sweetheart Charlie had left for another woman, worked as an assistant in a Salvation Army mission in Tulsa, Oklahoma during the Depression. She took under her wing an abandonned boy R.C. and a baby girl Belle. When Martha returned home to Texas for her mother's funeral, R.C. decided to follow her and, by mistake, put Belle on the wrong train...

Beautifully written, with several intriguing subplots and staged with the historic backdrop of the Depression, WW2, Desegregation and so forth, this is an engaging tale.
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compelling story of america
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very very good made me very sad but made me believe in divine intervention


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