Ellen Marie Wiseman

The Lost Girls of Willowbrook

By Ellen Marie Wiseman - Published 2022

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In 1972, journalist Geraldo Rivera exposed the shocking conditions at Willowbrook State School, an institution for disabled children on Staten Island, New York. The ...Read Review

The Orphan Collector

By Ellen Marie Wiseman - Published 2020

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Thirteen-year-old Pia Lange follows her mother through the throngs of Philadelphians gathering for the 1918 Liberty Loan Parade, unaware that the lethal Spanish flu ...Read Review

The Life She Was Given

By Ellen Marie Wiseman - Published 2017

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Ellen Marie Wiseman is noted for capturing little known pockets of American life and depicting them with heart and insight; her latest novel ...Read Review

Coal River

By Ellen Marie Wiseman - Published 2015

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In 2015, it would be unthinkable to send a child into the coal mines. But in 1912, America was a different place. It was a ...Read Review

What She Left Behind

By Ellen Marie Wiseman - Published 2013

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Mystery/Crime

What She Left Behind chronicles the lives of two young women living approximately 60 years apart. Izzy Stone has been in and out of ...Read Review

The Plum Tree

By Ellen Marie Wiseman - Published 2013

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Wiseman writes engagingly about WWII from the point of view of a seventeen-year-old German girl on the home front. At the opening, Christine ...Read Review