The Accidental Orphan

By Constance Horne

Short-listed for the 1999 Silver Birch Award

Eleven-year-old Ellen finds herself wrongly accused of stealing while selling flowers on the Liverpool docks. In her escape she becomes a stowaway aboard a steamship bound for Canada, an unwilling member of a band of orphans headed for new families on the Prairies. Adopted by the Aitkens, a family on a Manitoba homestead, she soon lands herself at the centre of a number of calamities, unexpectedly learning about rural life in the New World and the value of family ties, both those forged in blood and those forged in trust.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Dundurn
• Release date: Mar 1, 1998
• ISBN: 9781554886258

Constance Horne

Constance Horne is the author of numerous books. She lives in Victoria, British Columbia.

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