Books with title Charlotte's Web

The train that pulls into Turner's Crossing on May 9, 1905, carries a cargo that will change Charlotte Matthews's life. Among the eleven orphaned children aboard the train is 14-year-old Jesse Irwin. Jesse is just one year older than Charlotte, but in many ways the two are worlds apart. The two girls quickly become the best of friends. But before the summer is over, Jesse burdens Charlotte with the terrible secret behind a crime that shocks the town. In a novel distinguished by its sensitivity, its emotional honesty, and its resonant portrait of an unlikely friendship, Cathleen Twomey offers readers a fully realized coming-of-age story.

Charlotte is none too thrilled with her father when he sends her and her two sisters to spend Christmas with relatives in Argentina. Little does she know of the adventure, danger, and espionage that awaits her and her sisters, Clara and Constance. Neither does she expect to have her faith in the Lord tested like never before. Charlotte despairs that she will ever be able to mend her relationship with her father. Clara is convinced that she will never be able to marry the man of her dreams. Constance is determined to keep her beloved horse. Will Charlotte and her sisters escape the clutches of the outlaw gauchos trying to destroy them and their family? Will Charlotte be able to maintain her hope in the Lord in the midst of hopeless circumstances?

It is Christmas 1912, and Charlotte McEwan is 15 years old. The coal-mining town of Extension, British Columbia, on Vancouver island has hit hard times. When the opportunity to work in a local dynamite factory presents itself, Charlotte braves the disapproval of her mother for the chance to bring in some extra cash and keep the vow she made to herself to get her family as far away from the mine as possible. But the job is more dangerous than she bargained for, and soon Charlotte is at risk in more ways than one.

I will carry that baby to Zion,” I shout at them, “just see if I don’t!”Well! I did it! I have left them all quite speechless.In 1856, 12-year-old Charlotte and her widowed father are members of a Welsh handcart company on the Mormon Trail, so poor they cannot afford wagons but must push carts from Iowa City to Utah. When a woman in the company dies giving birth, and her husband is too distraught to care for the baby girl, Charlotte grandly offers to care for the baby, whom she names Rose. But taking care of Rose turns out to be much harder than Charlotte expected. She’s stuck; she can’t give Rose back. As she struggles along the trail with the infant, she comes to love Rose, and to dream of life with “her” baby, even though Papa and others remind her that she will have to give Rose back to her father when they part ways at the end of the trail.From the Hardcover edition.