The Orphan Band of Springdale
Anne Nesbet
In 1940s America, eleven-year-old Gusta, also called Augusta Neubronner, is sent from New York City to her grandmother’s Maine orphanage after her father becomes a fugitive. With the United States nearing World War II, she faces classmates’ suspicions about her German name and encounters prejudice in the small town. As family secrets emerge, Gusta finds comfort in playing with the orphanage band. Her father is a foreign-born labor organizer who has fled the country.
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