Down the rabbit hole

By Susan Campbell Bartoletti

Subjects: Runaways, fiction, Great Fire, Chicago, Ill., 1871, Down syndrome, fiction, Orphans, fiction, Diaries, fiction, Diaries, Down syndrome, Fiction, Children with mental disabilities, Chicago (ill.), fiction, Children's fiction, Orphans, Runaways, People with mental disabilities, fiction, Juvenile fiction, History, People with mental disabilities

Description: It is 1871 in Scranton, Pennsylvania, and fourteen-year-old Pringle Rose, still grieving from the death of her parents, takes her brother Gideon, who has Down syndrome, escapes from her uncle and aunt, and takes a train to Chicago--but disaster seems to follow her there.