01370cam a2200229 4500 681656890 TxAuBib 240618s2017||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780425284681 0425284689 TxAuBib Wingate, Lisa, author. Before We Were Yours / Lisa Wingate. First edition. New York : Ballantine Books, [2017] HARDCOVER 342 pages ; 25 cm. ""Memphis, Tennessee, 1939. Twelve-year-old Rill Foss and her four younger siblings live a magical life aboard their family's Mississippi River shantyboat. But when their father must rush their mother to the hospital one stormy night, Rill is left in charge - until strangers arrive in force. Wrenched from all that is familiar and thrown into a Tennessee Children's Home Society orphanage, the Foss children are assured they will soon be returned to their parents - but they quickly realize the dark truth. At the mercy of the facility's cruel director, Rill fights to keep her sisters and brother together in a world of danger and uncertainty. Family relationships - AD FIC Brothers and sisters - CHI FIC. Orphanages - AD FIC. Historical fiction - AD FIC.