A passenger on an electric trolley in 1914, Teddy Roosevelt has a special moment with a young farm girl from Maine.
Millie Thayer is a headstrong farmer's daughter who chases her dreams in a way you would expect a little girl nicknamed "Spitfire" would--running full tilt and with her eyes on the stars. Dreaming of leaving farm life, working in the city, and fighting for women's right to vote, Millie imagines flying away on a magic carpet. One day, that flying carpet shows up in the form of an electric trolley that cuts across her farm. A fortune-teller predicts that Millie's path will cross that of someone famous. Suddenly she finds herself caught up in events that shake the nation, Maine, and her family. Despairing that her dreams may be shattered, Millie learns, in an unexpected way, that dreams can be shared.
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The peddler's wife wore a long gold skirt, and her wrinkled face was framed by strands of gray hair escaping from her red kerchief. Silver hoops dangled from her ears.
"I know many things in this world...I see things...I see you--"
"Me?" Millie let out a gasp, shaken by her words.
"Know this child. You will meet someone notable who rides the trolley. He will remember you."
Professional Reviews
Michael Canfield, Theodore Roosevelt in the Field
"Along with being a beautiful story, Teddy Roosevelt, Millie, and the Elegant Ride contains many of the core elements that Roosevelt himself held dear. Understanding history, appreciating nature. Telling a good story. Loving children. At the same time profoundly personal and expansively historical, this book is ultimately about finding new life in things with deep underlying value."
Andrew Vietze, Becoming Teddy Roosevelt
“Like she's done in her previous books, Jean Flahive expertly rolls back the years, bringing us back to the arrival of interurban rail in small-town Maine. These "electric traveling machines" change young Millie's life forever, opening up new worlds of possibility. She visits the city, rides with suffragettes, and even meets Theodore Roosevelt. An eye-opening and entertaining ride - you won't want the train to stop! Highly recommended.”
Autumn 1940. Germany invades Britain. Newport is blitzed. Danny O’Shea’s house is bombed, his wife is killed. While taking his young son Adam to neutral Ireland, they witness an attack on a German convoy. The result is brutal.
Encountering danger, romance, heartache and tragedy, Catherine Merit strives to fit into a world filled with prejudice, hatred and violence where she is forced to kill a man in order to save herself. Third book of the Indignities Series.
Autumn 1940. Germany invades Britain. Newport is blitzed. Danny O’Shea’s house is bombed, his wife is killed. While taking his young son Adam to neutral Ireland, they witness an attack on a German convoy. The result is brutal.
