The Lark in the Morn (Young Adult Historical Bookshelf)
By Elfrida Vipont
The "untalented" child of a musical family finally discovers where she fits in.
Lovely Story
Feeling rejected by her cousin, who acts as her mother, ignored by her father, who is always busy with his work, and abandoned by her dear friend cook, who leaves to help her brother in America, 12-year-old Kit struggles to find her way in life in the warm and endearing story of The Lark in the Morn.
When Kit goes to visit her cousins, she feels she has found a real family at last. But all too soon she returns home only to find out that she is being sent away to a boarding school. Here, she not only discovers her true friends, but how to be a true friend to others.
As the end of her schooling approaches, will Kit find the answers she is looking for before she graduates.
This lovely story is about a Quaker girl growing up in England during the middle of the twentieth century.