Phœbe

"Phœbe" by Eleanor Gates is a story about a young girl, Phœbe Blair, whose life turns upside down when she's sent away from her home in New York to live with relatives she barely knows, after receiving a puzzling telegram from her mother. Accompanied by her loving father on the train, Phœbe's thoughts reveal her sadness and confusion about her mother's sudden absence and a hint of family trouble. Arriving at her grandmother's house, she's thrust into an unfamiliar world, which intensifies her feelings of loneliness and her yearning for her mother, setting the scene for a tale that explores family bonds and a young girl's fears as she faces grown-up problems.