The Journey Home
- 10 pages
- 1 hour of reading
This timeless story of homelessness introduces two sisters traveling on the orphan train West, fighting to stay together and find a place where they belong.
Isabelle Holland Books
June 16, 1920 – February 9, 2002
Isabelle C. Holland was a prolific author whose extensive body of work spanned Gothic novels, adult mysteries, and romantic thrillers. She also dedicated herself to writing for children and young adults, making her contributions appeal to a broad readership. Her narratives often delved into complex and sensitive themes, with some works addressing allegations of pedophilia, lending her writing depth and provocative power. Holland demonstrated a remarkable ability to engage diverse audiences through her distinctive style and storytelling.
Charles didn't know much about life...until he met The Man Without a face... "I'd never had a friend, and he was my friend; I'd never really, except for a shadowy memory, had a father, and he was my father. I'd never known an adult I could communicate with or trust, and I communicated with him all the time, whether I was actually talking to him or not. And I trusted him...." Fourteen-year-old Charles desperately wants two things: a father and a way out. Little love has come his way until the summer he befriends a mysterious scarred man named Justin McLeod, nicknamed "The Man Without a Face." Charles enlists McLeod's help as tutor for the St. Matthew's school entrance exams, his ticket away from the unpleasant restrictions of his home life. But more important than anything he could get out of a book, that summer Charles learns from McLeod a stirring life lesson about the many faces of love.
