Cover of Orphan Number Eight (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition)

Book 2015

Orphan Number Eight (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition)

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Publisher
Turtleback
Published
2015
  • Fiction, historical, general
  • New york (n.y.), fiction
  • Jews, fiction
  • Fiction, medical

True story: Dr. Alfred F. Hess was a doctor at the New York Hebrew Infant Asylum in the early 20th century. Hess conducted medical experiments on the orphans in his care and in Orphan Number Eight he is given a fictional counterpart: Dr. Mildred Solomon.