The journey of the Shadow Bairns Author:Margaret J. Anderson Thirteen-year-old Elspeth's father has a dream- to leave the gray poverty-ridden streets of Glasgow of the early 1900's and start a new life homesteading n Canada. Elspeth and his four-year-old brother, Robbie, would be able to grow up under bid blue skies and drink fresh milk every day. Life would be good. At last, there is enough money saved t... more »o buy tickets for the ship's passage.
But Then, Elspeth's father is killed in an accident at the shipyards and soon afterwords her frail mother dies.
What can Elspeth do? She's really too young to take care of her small brother. The social worker wants to place Elspeth as a maid and put Robbie in a foster home. But Elspeth can't let them be separated- Robbie is all she has left now! Can she take their few possessions and their bit of money and go to Canada? One thing is for certain- staying in Glasgow will only mean a life of drudgery, loneliness, and despair. But what awaits them in this new strange land of Opportunities?« less