Freckles

by Gene Stratton Porter | Children's Books | This book has not been rated.
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Registered by Sherlockfan of Upper Hutt, Wellington Province New Zealand on 6/3/2010
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Journal Entry 1 by Sherlockfan from Upper Hutt, Wellington Province New Zealand on Thursday, June 3, 2010
I read this book years, well perhaps decades, ago and remembered it vaguely but fondly. When I saw one in a 2nd hand shop just had to gather it in.

In preparation for taking this to Melbourne for dear friend Wombles I did re-read it. While it was rather dated I did enjoy it very much and was glad of the opportunity to renew the enjoyment I once felt from it maybe around 1947!

From goodreads by Tweety who rated it 5/5 stars
"Freckles is and Irish orphan who has spent nearly all twenty of his years in a foundling home, stories abound of how, when he was only a few months old he was brutally beaten and left more dead than alive on the orphanage steps. Freckles wishes he knew for sure that it wasn't his mother who left him, that she loved him just as much as normal mothers do, after all, isn't that what every orphan dreams of?

Even once he has moved on to work as the Limberlost guard, he can't banish the worry that he was always unwanted. (he's emotionally scarred, no doubt from the taunts of other orphans) But, that is not to say he isn't loved now, he quickly won the trust, respect and love of his Boss, who wishes that Freckles was his son and the admiration of "The Swamp Angel", a young girl who works with The Butterfly Woman collecting her specimens. But for some reason that isn't enough for Freckles, he needs to know the truth about himself, and it's left to Angel to find it, if not for him, for herself…"

Journal Entry 2 by wombles at Caboolture, Queensland Australia on Saturday, April 19, 2014
Thank you so much for thinking of me and giving me this book :)

Journal Entry 3 by luckaye at Crestmead, Queensland Australia on Monday, July 4, 2022
Given in a box of books for the street library

Journal Entry 4 by luckaye at Lucie's Little Free Library in Crestmead, Queensland Australia on Monday, July 4, 2022

Released 1 yr ago (7/4/2022 UTC) at Lucie's Little Free Library in Crestmead, Queensland Australia

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