Mending Girl

New England, 1907. Eleven-year-old Ivy Hartwell, newly orphaned, comes to live with her physician uncle in the small mill town of Ashford Falls — and finds herself apprenticed to his black medical bag. Bandages, fevers, croup, splinters, sprains: Ivy learns the old home remedies, the new germ theory, and the quiet bravery of first aid under pressure. But when a strange fever outbreak creeps throug...