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The Orphan Collector
by Ellen Marie Wiseman
***** SPOILERS ********** this is my summary of the hook to refresh my memory so has a lot of spoilers.
Around 1918 the Spanish flu started killing people and became very serious. The book revolves around a young girl who has two infant twin brothers, a mother, and a father overseas at war. When the fly begins the family quarantines and the mother falls ill and dies in her room. It is then only the young girl (Pia) and her two infant brothers in the apartment.
After running out of food and afraid they were going to starve, Pia leaves the apartment to go get food for her family; she locks the brothers in a compartment in the floor so they would be safe and not get hurt while she quickly ran to ask her neighbors for food.
Her nosey neighbor across the street sees Pia leave the apartment and she goes over to see what is happening. She finds the two infants alone in the apartment and decides she is going to take them and raise them herself because she had just lost her infant son and wanted to care for the boys to help her grieving.
While Pia is out she falls ill and wakes up days later in a hospital after surviving the flu. Pia is then taken to an orphanage and not allowed back to go see if her brothers are still at her apartment. The orphanage is horrible and mistreats the orphans.
Pia is assigned to take care of the infants at the orphanage and eventually is fostered to a family with small children so that she can help them.
Pia and the mother that adopted her find out that the neighbor that took Pia s brothers was stealing children and selling them to live in different homes during this pandemic. They finally are able to prove it but the woman had already given up the two twins and left town forever.
At the end, Pia gets to see her brothers again because they ended up being adopted by a nice family after the neighbor gave them up.
**Two important themes in the book are that Pia is German and tries to hide it a lot because of the hate for Germans at the time, and also Pia can tell if there is something wrong with someone by touching them. So if someone is sick Pia can tell if she touches themS
Around 1918 the Spanish flu started killing people and became very serious. The book revolves around a young girl who has two infant twin brothers, a mother, and a father overseas at war. When the fly begins the family quarantines and the mother falls ill and dies in her room. It is then only the young girl (Pia) and her two infant brothers in the apartment.
After running out of food and afraid they were going to starve, Pia leaves the apartment to go get food for her family; she locks the brothers in a compartment in the floor so they would be safe and not get hurt while she quickly ran to ask her neighbors for food.
Her nosey neighbor across the street sees Pia leave the apartment and she goes over to see what is happening. She finds the two infants alone in the apartment and decides she is going to take them and raise them herself because she had just lost her infant son and wanted to care for the boys to help her grieving.
While Pia is out she falls ill and wakes up days later in a hospital after surviving the flu. Pia is then taken to an orphanage and not allowed back to go see if her brothers are still at her apartment. The orphanage is horrible and mistreats the orphans.
Pia is assigned to take care of the infants at the orphanage and eventually is fostered to a family with small children so that she can help them.
Pia and the mother that adopted her find out that the neighbor that took Pia s brothers was stealing children and selling them to live in different homes during this pandemic. They finally are able to prove it but the woman had already given up the two twins and left town forever.
At the end, Pia gets to see her brothers again because they ended up being adopted by a nice family after the neighbor gave them up.
**Two important themes in the book are that Pia is German and tries to hide it a lot because of the hate for Germans at the time, and also Pia can tell if there is something wrong with someone by touching them. So if someone is sick Pia can tell if she touches themS