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Molly Ayer Chapter Summary

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Molly Ayer is living with her foster parents,Ralph and Dina, in Spruce Harbor, Maine. The book starts out when Molly hears Ralph and Dina talking about her and about how she’s causing trouble. Molly has already been in trouble for attempting to steal a book from the public library in their town, which only confirmed Dina’s assumption that Molly is a troublemaker. Her punishment was that she had to serve fifty hours of community service. Jack, Molly’s boyfriend, helps her find a place where she could serve fifty hours of community service.

Jack and his mother arrange for Molly to meet with an elderly lady, Vivian Daly, to clean out her attic. When Molly and Vivian meet, they discover that they have one thing in common, they are both orphans. While Molly is a orphan due to her father dying and her mother being incarcerated; Vivian is an orphan because her family died in a fire in 1929. Vivian’ real name is Niamh Power, her and her family immigrated to New York from Ireland. After her family died in a house fire, she went from family to family and was put on the Orphan Train where she was supposed to be given a chance at a new start. …show more content…

By working for Vivian, Molly discovers that Vivian isn’t very willing to get rid of anything from her attic, she only willingly parted with a few books and gave Molly a copy of Anne of Green

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