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| 100 | 1 | _aCoolidge-Rask, Marie | |
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_aSalt Lake City, UT : _bProject Gutenberg, _c2025 |
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| 500 | _aRelease date is 2025-06-14 | ||
| 508 | _aAl Haines | ||
| 520 | _a"Sparrows" by Marie Coolidge-Rask and Winifred Dunn is a novelization of a photoplay written in the early 20th century. Set on a sinister, isolated hog farm bordered by a deadly bog, it follows the brave orphan Mollie and the thoughtful boy Stephen (“Splutters”) as they endure the cruelty of the monstrous farmer Peter Grimes and his family, clinging to faith and each other. The story centers on child exploitation, survival, and the hope of rescue, with the sparrow motif underscoring divine care for the helpless. The opening of Sparrows shows Mollie leading a desperate band of children in sending a kite “prayer” for rescue before we learn the farm’s grim setup and Grimes’s origins. Mollie and Stephen arrive through deceit—a lost guardian arrangement and a kidnapping mix-up—and quickly face brutality, including Grimes nearly drowning Stephen until Mollie intervenes. Banished to the barn loft, the children hide when visitors come, labor in the fields, and navigate the fence, bell, and bog that trap them. New arrivals—Cynthy and her baby brother Buddy—heighten the peril: Buddy’s arm is broken in Grimes’s careless return, and by morning the baby has mysteriously vanished, leaving Mollie to comfort Cynthy as they keep working and watch the treacherous swamp that surrounds them. (This is an automatically generated summary.) | ||
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_pOriginally published: _cNew York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1926 |
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| 653 | _aSwamps -- Fiction | ||
| 653 | _aFoster home care -- Fiction | ||
| 653 | _aOrphans -- Abuse of -- Fiction | ||
| 653 | _aFilm novelizations | ||
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_aDunn, Winifred, _d1898-1977 |
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