Home for Wayward Elephants (James Rada, Jr. - F) pot Foreward by Carol Reardon &

Foreward by Carol Reardon & Afterword by Gregory Forbes

Wars change the course of history and touch in intensely personal ways the lives of everyone involved

and the civilians unfortunate enough to live in the borderlands of Kentucky

of free blacks and poor-to-middling whites

and the dying

Home for Wayward Elephants (James Rada, Jr. - F) pot Foreward by Carol Reardon &A fire kills Jessie Parsons family and leaves her an orphan at age 13 during the Great Depression. The fire also leaves her both physically and emotionally scarred. Amid her struggles to adjust to life on a farm orphanage, she tries to help an elephant calf that has escaped from the circus. Jessie and the elephant bond as Jessie tries to care for the elephant. The calf is eventually returned to the circus, but Jessie discovers her love for animals