Twelve-year-old Carrie is excited to spend the night at her best friend Betsy's house one Saturday night in the turn of the century Galveston, Texas. But when h

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Between the years of 1869 to 1939 more than 100,000 poor British children were sent across the ocean to Canada with the promise of a better life. Those who took

"Against the arid azure sky, darkness was gathering. Seen by no human eye, making no detectable sound, the culprits of hell assembled above the red desert floor