The Angels of Morgan Hill

from AuthorMarion

picked up this book because of the word Angels in the title, knowing nothing about the author or her other works. After the opening paragraph, however, I was hooked. Set in Tennessee during the 1950s, Jane Gable (the 9-year old narrator) tells the story of the day her daddy was buried and how she...

from KathyWoodall

Much like Ms VanLiere other books, a true tear jerker. The setting is in the 1940's in East Tennessee in a small town of Morgan Hill. Told from the view point of Jane a 9 year girl.

from Emmery

I loved this book. it shows how a white family befriends a black family. But because of racial discrimination, the befriended family dies, leaving a young boy behind. The white family adopts the young orphaned boy. The father of the white family died a couple of years before, so it was up to the ...

from moonshineandrosefire

It's 1947. Nine-year-old Jane Gable first lays eyes on Milo Turner the day her alcoholic and abusive father is laid to rest. The Turner family is the first black family to live in Morgan Hill and Jane can't understand why people are so bitter. For Jane and her brother John, Milo is just a new fri...

from nancynova

short tale set in 1947 Tennessee. The day Jane's abusive daddy was buried, was also the day the first negroes came to town. After a tragic fire, Jane's mama takes in the orphaned black boy, Milo, raising him as her own with some of the town not too kind about this turn of events