Tending Ben's garden

Description:

In 1929, twelve-year-old Kate risks her life trying to keep a promise always to look after her gentle little brother, Ben, who their destitute, widowed mother allowed to be adopted by a wealthy family in an attempt to get the rest of the family through the Depression.

subjects: Fiction,  Depressions,  Brothers and sisters,  Tramps,  Family life,  Poverty,  Gardening,  History,  Children's fiction,  Brothers and sisters, fiction,  Depressions, fiction,  Family life, fiction,  Michigan, fiction,  Gardening, fiction,  Poverty, fiction,  Tramps, fiction

Places: Michigan

Times: 1929,  20th century