A Home for the Heart Granny’s Story

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  A Home for the Heart Granny’s Story
  Times are tough. Money is scarce. The beginning of the Great Depression finds the Langemann family looking for jobs. Any jobs. Lizzie Langemann leaves home at the age of 16 to work as a housemaid in the city of Winnipeg. As she struggles to gain experience and learn the strange new ways, she also faces the need of her soul. New friendships introduce her to a new life – and true love. Step by step, God leads her to a place where she finds rest and a home for her soul.
  Granny’s Story The Life Story of Granny, Betty Friesen, has been written in three volumes, all available at Kindle. Are We Home Now? Which House is Home? and A Home for the Heart. The manuscripts have been edited and prepared for printing by her daughter, Alice Warkentin. The books are suitable for school children grade four and up. Historians and people who are interested in others find this series informative and fascinating.
  Rosalie Penner, Granny’s daughter, authored this book, with help from Alice Warkentin, another daughter.
  Alice Warkentin has written other biographies. Heartstrings in Haiti is a book of Raymond Withers’ experiences in Haiti, including the 2010 earthquake. Glimpses of the Past is a story of the childhood of Vada (Boehs) Friesen of Oklahoma. On the Banks of the Seine, and Seine River Siblings, is a set of two books of the life experiences of Lizzie Goossen of Ste. Anne, Manitoba. The Life of Liese is a story of the life of Elizabeth (Voth) Toews, from Russia to Manitoba.
  These books are available at prairieviewpress.com. Ph: 1-800-477-7577
  Betty Friesen has also written three fictitious children’s books: The Martin Family, Hilltown Friends, Three Years Later. At this time they are out of print.

  Following is an excerpt from the book A Home for the Heart:
  “I won’t cry, I won’t cry.”
  Lizzie gripped her hands together. In spite of her determination, a tear spilled rebelliously from her eyes and fell on her clenched hands.
  She was leaving home! Right now, the car she was riding in was speeding to Winnipeg. Mile after mile, farther and farther – from home! How could she bear it? Another tear followed the first one.
  Mama reached across to pat her arm sympathetically. Lizzie responded with a weak smile. Mama’s sympathy shored up her crumbling inner courage.
  Lizzie thought back to the little milking stool where she had been sitting when she and resolved to get a job in Winnipeg. She wished she could recapture that noble purpose of helping her parents, but all she felt now was a flooding lonesomeness and inadequacy. How could she make it without Papa and Mama?
  Papa and Uncle K sat in the front seat, swaying slightly with the movement of Uncle K’s car.
  “Have you found work lately?” Uncle K asked Papa above the noise.
  “Work!” answered Papa, with fire in his eyes. “There’s work wherever I look! Everybody has work! What I need is money! No one has any cash to pay wages for my work. That’s the problem!” Papa settled his Sunday hat more firmly on his balding head.
  That was why Lizzie was going to Winnipeg. Papa couldn’t find work. Johnny and Dick couldn’t find work. Nobody had anything with which to pay them. Only the rich people in the city of Winnipeg had money to pay their maids.
  Times were hard. Lizzie heard Papa and the uncles talk about the stock market crash a few years ago, which Lizzie vaguely knew had something to do with the lack of cash. More real and immediate to Lizzie were the lack of cash, scarcity of jobs, boarded up businesses, and poor crops. Homeless men stole rides on top of the train cars that went by their house, making their way across the country in search of work. Lizzie saw these things but until now it was as though these troubles were far away.
  In spite of the difficult times, they had always had enough to eat, even if it was only bread and potatoes and milk.

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  Binding	Paperback
  Book Category	True Stories
  Age by Development	Tween 9-12 Years
  Publisher	Gospel Publishers

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  SKU: 104-0425Categories: Story Books

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