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The Many Reflections of Miss Jane Deming
by J. Anderson Coats
It's pioneer days. Jane's mean widowed stepmother decides to go out to Seattle find a new husband, bringing Jane and her baby half brother along. Eleven-year-old Jane is excited and eager to escape her life as an unpaid household drudge while her stepmother works in the textile mills of Lowell, Mass. She projects all her fantasies, hopes and dreams onto the new Washington Territory described in the PR brochures. Most of all, she longs to have friends her own age, to play, and to go to school as she promised her late father. Can Seattle ever live up to her expectations? Or could it, just maybe, be great in a way she never imagined? This is a world before child labor acquired a bad name and school attendance became mandatary--surely an eye-opener for contemporary kids.