Velvet

Description:

Velvet is a laundress in a Victorian steam laundry. With both her mother and father dead, she is an orphan and has to rely upon her own wits to make a living. The laundry is scalding, back-breaking work and Velvet is desperate to create a better life for herself.

subjects: Spiritualism,  Premier's Reading Challenge,  Young adult fiction,  Impostors and imposture,  Orphans,  Fiction,  Year 7,  Mediums,  Year 9.,  Children's fiction,  Orphans, fiction,  Great britain, history, 19th century, fiction