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A CHILDHOOD ADVENTURE ON THE HIGH SEAS
In the early 1920s, Molly May, a girl of six, is taken out of an orphanage in England and sent across the Atlantic on the luxury liner Olympic (sister ship to the Titanic) to join her Aunt Georgie and Uncle Ed in South Dakota.
Traveling alone might be a frightening experience for some little girls, but Molly May is a resourceful and self-confident child with a sense of adventure who makes friends easily and stands up for herself when she need to. During the voyage she is accused of theft, she discovers and reveals the real thief, she saves an elderly fellow passenger from exposure, and is honored by the captain's respect, the lift steward's friendship, and the devotion of a new best friend, a girl her age.
Molly May goes through immigration in New York's Ellis Island and boards a train heading west, into her future.
This charmingly illustrated real-life adventure will appeal to fans of Love from Your Friend Hannah.
Rewa Hodges was born in Colombo, Ceylan, now Sri Lanka, and went to an orphanage in England when she was three-and-half. She came to America by ocean liner in the early 1920s. This story is based on that experience. She is a freelance writer with over 100 published short stories and articles in magazines including the Christian Science Monitor and Northwest Airlines Inflight magazine. She lives in Los Altos, California, where she is at work on her second book-Molly May's life on a cattle ranch. |
