Orphan at My Door : The Home Child Diary of Victoria Cope [Hardcover]

Jean Little (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 221 pages
• Publisher: Scholastic Canada, Limited; 2nd Printing edition (2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0439988349
• ISBN-13: 978-0439988346
• Product Dimensions: 7.3 x 5.5 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #774,051 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One of my favorite Dear Canada books., September 11, 2005

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Rebecca Herman (USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Orphan at My Door : The Home Child Diary of Victoria Cope (Hardcover)

This book is one of the Dear Canada series, which are historical novels, written in diary format, about fictional girls during different periods of Canadian history.

Victoria Cope, who lives in the town of Guelph, Ontario, begins her diary on her eleventh birthday. Because her mother is unwell, her father decides the family will take in a Home Child, an orphan from England, to help with the housework. The girl who joins their household is a small, quiet twelve-year-old named Mary Anna Wilson. Through Victoria's diary, we learn of Mary Anna's plight -- her mother died, and she has been separated from her younger brother and sister. Victoria also tells of the daily life for a young girl in Canada in 1897 and her decision to try and help Mary Anna find her family.

This was the first book I read in the Dear Canada series and I loved it. It was very well written and keep me interested the entire time. The characters of Victoria and Mary Anna were very realistic and likable, and their stories showed how very different life was for rich children and poor children in the late 1800s. This book is still one of my favorites from the series and I'd highly recommend it to young readers who enjoy historical fiction in diary format.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars read to your daughters, February 1, 2003

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Jeff St. Pierre (London, Ontario Canada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Orphan at My Door : The Home Child Diary of Victoria Cope (Hardcover)

My daughter and I were caught up in the suspense, the hopes, the tears. What a beautiful book, again, from Jean Little. My daughter (almost 8) says it is the book ever, and she wants to start back at the beginning and hear it again.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Home Children!!!, December 2, 2006

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Lily Boldin "Canadian Girl" (Vancouver, BC) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Orphan at My Door : The Home Child Diary of Victoria Cope (Hardcover)

Victoria Cope's family gets a home child, Marianna Wilson, to help around the house, with Vic's mother carrying a baby and all that. Marianna and Victoria find out where Marianna's brother Jasper is and about him being treated very unfairly by a mean villain, Carl Stone. Before you know it, the whole Cope family is trying their very hardest to save Jasper, to be able to have him in the friendly Cope household. Read this book to find out if they save him and their great adventure hiding him illegally from family outsider.