Tiptoeing into the pantry the next evening, Samantha eases the lid off the cookie jar and lifts out some heart-shaped cookies, hoping to have a tiny party for the girls because the next day was Valentine’s Day.

Nellie's parents had passed away from the flu, and she is sent to live with her Uncle, Mike O'Malley in downtown New York.
She’s been picked to go west on the Orphan Train, a train that stops in several small farm towns for residents to hire or adopt children from. Samantha thanks Uncle Gard for telephoning and climbs upstairs to her bedroom, determined to find Nellie no matter how hard it might be. By the time Samantha was an adult, in the 1910s and 1920s, it was becoming more common for women to hold others jobs, although they would often stop working when they got married so they could focus on raising their children.

Samantha expresses an indignant wish to snatch the gloves back, and Nellie says she would be punished if Miss Frouchy knew the girls were meeting in secret. I'm glad that her Grandmary finally married the Admiral who had been proposing a long time.

Samantha says her friend Nellie is Mike’s niece and likely living with him, and asks again where he lives.The chestnut vendor answers that he lives on 18th Street above the shoemaker, and warns her to be careful as she thanks him and leaves. http:\/\/www.worldcat.org\/oclc\/45668282> ; http:\/\/experiment.worldcat.org\/entity\/work\/data\/14500403#Topic\/friendship>. Listening to Gertrude’s continued complaints about how much Samantha seemed to be eating, she decides to be extra careful. Samantha wonders aloud why Nellie hasn’t come in the two weeks. ( Log Out /  A bit of Nellie’s old smile returns at that, and Samantha asks earnestly if Nellie and her sisters really are all right.

When the book begins, Samantha and Aunt Cornelia are making Valentines to give to friends and family. Get this from a library! WorldCat is the world's largest library catalog, helping you find library materials online. Gard fumes all the way home--he’d been forced to talk to Bridget and Jenny in a stern voice and fool Miss Frouchy into thinking he was quizzing them on multiplication tables, and she’d snatched away the sweets he’d offered the girls. The new appliances and technology that a common woman would have in her household, and why it was becoming harder for people to find new servants. How fashions were beginning to change for women, including the shortening of skirts and the discontinuation of corsets. I forgot how much I love these books and can't wait to read more of the girls' adventures!! This edition published in 1988 by Pleasant Co. in … The owner's manners and how she treated the kids was very unlikeable. Samantha says that Nellie could come and stay with her and her aunt and uncle, but Nellie says that they probably don’t need any more maids. Updates will be made as I sort through my book collection. She had been denied dinner last night as punishment for “stealing” the gloves.

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When searching for the location of Nellie and her sisters, Samantha runs into an orphanage where Nellie and her sisters are staying. Samantha leads the girls around behind the house and explains that they must climb through the basement window and up the back stairs, which start in the basement and go all the way up. Changes for Samantha : a winter story. They change for Nellie, Samantha's servant friend in Mount Bedford, too.

As the others in the series, this is a delightful read. Uncle Gard says she may be working, or too busy watching her sisters to go visiting. I have quite a lot of unusual books on various subjects, and I have decided to use Jestress's Bookshelf for the more adult books. When she discovers that Nellie and her sisters have been sent to an orphanage, Samantha, now living with her aunt and uncle in New York City, tries to help her friends as much as she can. She introduces herself as Tusnelda Frouchy, directress of Coldrock House, and asks if Cornelia has come to hire a servant girl. Uncle Gard and Aunt Cornelia say that maybe Nellie has had to get a job or look after her sisters and that she’s just been too busy to visit, but Samantha is still worried that something is very wrong. It’s difficult to say what happened to Samantha’s family during the Great Depression. Samantha searches for her and discovers they are living in an orphanage.

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When the girls are finally caught, Samantha owes her aunt and uncle some explanations, but admitting the truth of what has happened changes things for the better for all of the girls. It had a sweet ending that wrapped up what Samantha is all about and Abby and I both enjoyed it. It is difficult for the girls to speak candidly with Miss Frouchy watching them and monitoring everything that Nellie says.

Samantha resolves to bring food instead from then on, for Nellie to either eat or smuggle to her sisters--as much as Samantha can sneak past Gertrude. Nellie's Promise – Jestress's Forgotten Books and Stories, 23 years old when the US entered World War I in 1917, 26 years old when the 19th Amendment granted women’s suffrage in the United States in 1920, 30 years old in 1924 (Jazz age and Prohibition), 35 years old when the stock market crashed in 1929, the beginning of the Great Depression, 47 years old in 1941, when the attack on Pearl Harbor occurred, and the US entered World War II, and 50 years old in 1944, when the.

The last one seemed to be holding Samantha back, but she matures by leaps and bounds in this last volume. Samantha looks helplessly to Cornelia, who understands and asks Miss Frouchy to take her on a tour of the orphanage. http:\/\/purl.oclc.org\/dataset\/WorldCat> ; http:\/\/www.worldcat.org\/title\/-\/oclc\/45668282#PublicationEvent\/middleton_wi_pleasant_co_2000>. That night, all four girls sleep in Samantha’s room as she wonders if this is the last night they’ll get to spend together. Perhaps, Samantha’s future husband was a soldier.

She considers aloud going back to the thread factory where she used to work, and Samantha urges her not to give up. Then he said they needed 3 more girls in the house, though, and I think that was a perfect ending for all of Samantha's stories. After all, a lot of working children in the city are orphans, only some of which are lucky enough to live in an orphanage instead of on the streets. Published

Comment. Change ). I was very startled to find her in a new home, with new guardians. She resolves to find out in person if Nellie’s okay the next day. Jenny asks Nellie if they have to go back to the orphanage that night, and Nellie says no, they’re staying there.

However, he warns Samatha not to get involved with him because Mike O’Malley is a “hooligan.” Samantha worries about that, but it’s just another reason for her to want to check on Nellie. The grinning vendor asks her to clarify, as he knows of many O’Malleys. Cornelia says they are here to see Miss Nellie O’Malley, which causes Miss Frouchy’s smile to slip for a moment before the latter states that the girls are only allowed visitors from three to four o clock on Sundays. You may send this item to up to five recipients.

Nellie and her sisters are discovered, and they begin to fear they will go back to the orphanage. Uncle Gard decides to call Mrs. Van Sicklen and find out Nellie’s new address, but she doesn’t know where Nellie’s uncle, Mike O’Malley, lives. They change for Nellie, Samantha's servant friend in Mount Bedford, too. "Ages 7 and up"--P. [4] of cover. Samantha reflects that these late afternoons are her favorite time of day now that she lives in New York City with her aunt and uncle, as she and Cornelia share tea and conversation waiting for Uncle Gard to come home from his office job. They change for Nellie, Samantha's servant friend in Mount Bedford, too.

Bridget and Jenny begin playing with Samantha’s paper dolls as Samantha warns them all about staying very quiet at night and early in the morning, when Gertrude is in her own room down the hall. When she was older, Samantha could have either joined the temperance movement behind Prohibition or visited a speakeasy or at least knew people who did. Samantha receives a letter from Nellie that says that her parents have died of the flu and their employer, Mrs. Van Sicklen, is sending her and her sisters to New York City to live with her Uncle Mike. By World War II, Samantha may have had a son who was old enough to fight. Uncle Gard and Aunt Cornelia are surprised to see the O’Malleys, and asks why they are there. Nellie says she certainly hopes that’s the case.

Be the first one to, Advanced embedding details, examples, and help, Terms of Service (last updated 12/31/2014). loader-DanaB Finally, Samantha opens the box of food that she’d smuggled up, and all three girls begin eating.

Nellie says it won’t make much difference, as no one wants to hire a maid as scrawny-looking as her. See what's new with book lending at the Internet Archive. Middleton, WI: Pleasant Co, 1998. Funny how cyclical learning is <3, Historically set in the winter of 1904, a young girl named Samantha Parkington sets out on a mission to find a solution for her friend Nellie. Samantha successfully hides her secret for four days, until the house maid begins to become suspicious. Throughout the series, Samantha deals with many heavy issues. One time, she recalls, Uncle Gard managed to sneak her a peppermint candy, inadvertently reminding Samantha of how hard it was becoming to feed the girls unnoticed. But Nellie's changes aren't as happy as Samantha's, and Nellie has to find work again.

Samantha, at least, was able to arrange a secret meeting with Nellie the next day.
Then she gets a Letter from Nellie with horrible news.

Samantha tells her she’d been bringing them food and repeats that they would never steal.

You may have already requested this item. She would bring them most of her own lunch and all her afternoon snack, and smuggle whatever she could from the pantry, and once she even bought a loaf of bread and carried it straight to the attic hidden in her plaid cape. The postcard is from Grandmary and the Admiral, who at the time of writing were sailing the warm Mediterranean near Greece.

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Let us know what’s wrong with this preview of, Published Great way to end the series!!! Newer Illustrations by Dan Andreason (Original Illustrations by Luann Roberts can be found here) Posted 7 years ago 43 notes . Home. Publication date 1988 Topics Orphans, Friendship, Orphans, Friendship Publisher Madison, Wis. : Pleasant Co. Collection inlibrary; printdisabled; internetarchivebooks; delawarecountydistrictlibrary; china; americana Digitizing sponsor Internet Archive Contributor Internet Archive Language English.