Cinnamon Moon (First edition.)

On the same day as the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, 250 miles away in Peshtigo, Wisconsin, there was an even more devastating fire.

Twelve-year-old Ailis and her younger brother, Quinn, survive, but their family does not.

Ailis and Quinn are taken by a family acquaintance to live in a boarding house in Chicago, where they meet six-year-old Nettie, an orphan displaced by Chicago's fire.

But the woman who runs the boarding house makes their lives miserable, and Ailis vows to find a way for the three of them to leave.

Ailis finds a job at a millinery shop and Quinn plays his fiddle on the streets so they can save money.

Then Nettie disappears, and Ailis and Quinn discover she's been kidnapped by a group that forces children to work in the sewers killing rats.

Can they find a way to rescue her? CINNAMON MOON is a riveting story of friendship and finding home.A Margaret Ferguson Book