01575cam a2200337 i 4500 337081794 TxAuBib 20180123120000.0 170320s2017||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2017009998 9780425284681 0425284689 (OCoLC)958413467 TxAuBib rda Wingate, Lisa. Before we were yours : a novel / Lisa Wingate. First edition. New York : Ballantine Books, [2017] ℗2017. 342 pages ; 25 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Memphis, Tennessee, 1939. Twelve-year-old Rill Foss and her four younger siblings live a magical life aboard their family's Mississippi River shantyboat. But when their father must rush their mother to the hospital one stormy night, Rill is left in charge - until strangers arrive in force. Wrenched from all that is familiar and thrown into a Tennessee Children's Home Society orphanage, the Foss children are assured they will soon be returned to their parents - but they quickly realize the dark truth. At the mercy of the facility's cruel director, Rill fights to keep her sisters and brother together in a world of danger and uncertainty. 20180123. Brothers and sisters Fiction. Orphanages Fiction. Domestic fiction. Historical fiction. TXLVP