![]() ![]() Sister Bert is kind, and Frankie has her pals and her routines, and best of all, there's a boy on the forbidden side of the yard who sometimes smiles at her. Sure, Sister George is a terror, and the food is inedible, and all the girls get their hair shorn off to deter lice. Only her brother is joining her father's new family, and Frankie and her sister are left behind, abandoned indefinitely. ![]() But then it turns out that there aren't any tickets for Frankie or her sister. When he turns up to visit with train tickets West, she thinks things are finally looking up. ![]() She keeps thinking that one day, he'll take them home again. Her father left them there once her mother was gone. Printz Award winner Laura Ruby returns with a new Depression-era young adult drama that poses a question: When there are wolves behind all the doors, how do we find the courage to open them anyway?įrankie isn't an orphan - her father is very much alive - but she lives with her brother and sister at an orphanage in Chicago. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title Thirteen Doorways, Wolves Behind Them All Author Laura Ruby ![]()
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