"Orphaned as a child and sent to live among religious caretakers in Canada, Beck endures harsh labor and searches for love while traveling back and forth across the American border during the height of the Great Depression."--OCLC.
year: 2017
call number/section: 1000
subjects: child slaves, juvenile fiction, homeless children, abuse of, canada, 20th century, home, orphans, voyages and travels, depressions, 1929, fiction, electronic books, bildungsromans, electronic books
Editions
Peet, Mal
Born of a brief encounter between a Liverpool prostitute and an African soldier in 1907, Beck finds himself orphaned as a young boy and sent overseas to the Catholic Brothers in Canada.
Schools: 12
Peet, Mal
Candlewick Press (2017)
"Orphaned as a child and sent to live among religious caretakers in Canada, Beck endures harsh labor and searches for love while traveling back and forth across the American border during the height of the Great Depression."--OCLC.
Schools: 0