Category: YA Fiction (Ages 13-17), 132 pages
Genre: YA Historical Fiction / Adventure
Content Rating: G: Written for a high school school project 🙂 by a highschooler
The year is 1938 and a family in the small South Carolina town of Beaufort faces serious adversity. After the birth of her long-awaited son, Mary Banks dives into a dark postpartum period, throwing her into a deep depression. Thinking that her sister, Rose, is offering her a helping hand, Mary leaves her family and goes to Boston in search of a medical cure, not to be heard from again.
Where is Mary Banks? What has Rose done with the much-loved mother and wife of the Banks family? Finally, Mary’s 15-year-old daughter, Estelle can wait no longer. She gathers her wits and her courage and without a word, runs off to heroically rescue her beloved mother in faraway Boston. This is where the adventure begins……
Myra Lee Glass is a young adult author of A Daughter’s Journey. She lives in Texas with her parents and sister.
Sounds really good.
Thank you for sharing, the book sounds really good
A Daughter’s Journey sounds like a must read for my teen-aged granddaughters and I. Thank you for sharing the author’s bio and the book details