Freckles
by Gene Stratton-Porter
Freckles is a fiction story of an orphan with disability written by Gene Stratton-Porter, who was born Geneva Grace Stratton, was a Wabash County, Indiana, native who became a self-trained American author, nature photographer, and naturalist.
Freckles is a young man who has been raised since infancy in a Chicago orphanage. His one dream is to find a job, a place to belong and people who accept him despite his youth and the disability of having only one hand. He finds this place in the Limberlost Swamp, as a Limberlost guard of precious timber.
Books by Gene Stratton-Porter
Moths of the Limberlost - A Book About Limberlost Cabin
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NatureJuvenile Fiction
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