The Yellowwood Tree

In 1918, World War One and the Spanish Flu left unimaginable numbers of orphaned children. In every corner of the planet, one person in twenty perished. Emma Taylor is a twelve-year-old girl, living on a farm in Indiana. Her mother is taken by the flu and her father dies in The Great War. Children left without their parents due to war or influenza do not fare well. They are most often thrown into orphanages and their homes auctioned off at pennies on the dollar to a select group of buyers. ...