![]() Mandy even starts getting letters from a “secret admirer” who leaves her gifts at the cottage. One day, she climbs the wall at the back of the garden, walks through a woods, and finds an adorable little abandoned cottage in a glen. She wants a place she can call her own … and a real, honest-to-goodness family. The girls are well-cared for, and they’re not mistreated, but of course they’re still orphans. Martin’s Orphanage, where Mandy, a ten-year-old little girl, and about thirty other little girls live, is not a cruel place where orphans are whipped and underfed. Mandy by Julie Andrews Edwards is perfect. But, to be honest, there’s nothing I can find fault in, and I refuse to search for faults in a childhood favorite of mine. Then, one stormy night at the cottage, Mandy gets sick, and no one knows how to find her – except a special friend she didn’t know she had.įorgive me if, in this review, I do nothing but praise this book excessively. Sometimes, to guard her secret, she even lies. ![]() Sometimes she “borrows” things she needs from the orphanage. All through the spring, summer, and fall, Mandy works to make it truly hers. Escaping over the orphanage wall to explore the outside world, Mandy discovers a tiny deserted cottage in the woods. ![]() Mandy, a ten-year-old orphan, dreams of a place to call her own. ![]()
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