When Molly Was a Harvey Girl
When Molly's father dies, it's up to her nineteen-year-old sister Colleen to keep a roof over their heads. Unfortunately, there's not much money left, and ever fewer options. She dresses thirteen-year-old Molly - luckily, Molly's tall - in women's clothing (even a corset!) and applies for jobs...
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When Molly's father dies, it's up to her nineteen-year-old sister Colleen to keep a roof over their heads. Unfortunately, there's not much money left, and ever fewer options. She dresses thirteen-year-old Molly - luckily, Molly's tall - in women's clothing (even a corset!) and applies for jobs for both of them at the Harvey Eating Houses, which feed the popular Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad. To Molly's dismay, the plan works! She finds herself far away from her friends and her almost-sweetheart back home, smack dab in the heart of the Wild West. But Molly has a plan....
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9781935279518 (1935279513)
Publish date: January 1st 2009
Publisher: Kane Miller Book Pub
Pages no: 226
Edition language: English