Based on a true story, this book tells the tale of a 12-year-old boy who, after the death of his parents, gives his five younger brothers and sisters away to carefully chosen families on Christmas Day.
Mass Market Paperback
(Ballantine Books, Nov. 13, 1991)
When his mother, Mamie Eunson, dies of typhoid on Christmas Eve, 1868, her oldest son, twelve-year-old Robbie, takes on the task of finding good homes for his siblings
Paperback
(Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Jan. 1, 1970)
When the six Eunson children were left orphans the day before Christmas, 1868, the oldest, twelve-year-old Robbie, took the responsibility of finding homes for his younger brothers and sisters.