In the Face of Danger by Joan Lowery Nixon

Poor Meg got the 'Beth March' edit, the shy, quiet, boring one, and as a result, is easily overlooked both in the story and to the reader. I didn't read Megan's part of the series the first time around years ago, so I was pleasantly surprised as to how much I enjoyed it. That story would give warmth to those who are looking for an intimate sweet reading. The reader couldn't stop himself from sharing Browder's family feeling relieved when she left the neighborhood. The side story of 'Ada Haskill', Their arrogant selfish new neighbor, was a funny and amusing addition to the tale. I know how is it painful to hide your feeling with longing for someone who you don't know if you will ever be able to meet again or not. The moments when she was missing her mother broke my heart. In a fast-paced narration, I followed Megan's first months with her adoptive family and how she was bravely trying to adapt to a new way of life and how she was trying to stop herself from thinking of her family that she had to leave behind. In this story, the author chooses a 13 years old Irish immigrant girl who had to be separated from her impoverished family and go to live with another family as it is the way with all orphan train kids at that time.įavoring to tell a feel-good story, The author makes up the girl's painful separation from her mother and siblings with a family that gave her love and devotion. The story is one of a series that follows an important stage of American history which is the Orphan Train welfare program that lasted for more than 70 years. The writer beautifully portrayed the toughness of the pioneer's life on the prairie, yet depicted how the hardships and struggles of that life made those people more emotionally tied to their land and how that place got its inhabitants closer to each other. In a journey through time, we are taken to the 1860s Kansas prairie right before the spark of the American civil war. Rarely do old forgotten books fail to surprise me with an enjoyable reading.

In the Face of Danger by Joan Lowery Nixon