The Taken Girl: Historical Fiction for Teens

“Taken” at fifteen from an orphanage to help in the household of a snobbish, well-to-do family, scorned and resentful Veer is soon rescued and eventually adopted by an abolitionist couple from Philadelphia with a houseful of young Quaker boarders, among whom is John Greenleaf Whittier. Veer helps Whittier on his newspaper and falls in love with him, but the poet eventually returns to New England in poor health, and a rapidly recovering Vere finds work and schooling and possibly another attachment through the other boarders…" KIRKUS REVIEWS