Thorndike Peer Picks: Orphan #8 (Hardcover)

from MEENIEREADS

Very well written novel based on historical facts. Over the course of about 80 plus years the Hebrew Orphanage in NYC housed and took care of 1,000 children at any given time. They were very well provided for in material ways. However,their methods for treating sick children seem quite cold by to...

from Sharn

What did I think? I wanted to give this book more stars but I had a few issues. While someone else said, the book was well researched and the story was told well enough, I just got bored a bit somewhere around the middle. I believe the characters were developed just enough although there was room...

from booklovers2

Interesting story based on the Hebrew Orphans Asylum of New York set in the 1950's. The story is based on the jewish ran home for orphans where her grandfather and uncle were raised and her Great Grandmother Fannie Berger ran the Reception area of the home. Fictional characters Rachel & Sam Rabin...

from caseylondon

Hurt and fear, are not things we want children to experience. We don't expect healthy children to be test subjects in medical experiments that can physically harm them for life. Kim Van Alkemade's ORPHAN 8, an historical novel, is based on New York City's Home for Hebrew Infants and the Hebrew Or...

from gypsysmom

The author says that when she tells people this book is about Jewish orphans and medical experimentation they automatically assume it is set in Europe during the Holocaust. You can see why people would jump to that conclusion because we don't think that anyone except fascist extremists would expe...