Everything you need to understand or teach Edith Shay by Alexandria LaFaye.
In August 1869, Wisconsin teenager Katherine Lunden deviates from her family's plans for her to visit and work for relatives in Michigan. Instead, thinking she has been forgotten at the train station, she is motivated by the discovery of an unclaimed suitcase marked with the name Edith Shay to travel to Chicago where she has long dreamed of going. In that city, Katherine secures employment and makes friends.
She assumes the identity of Edith...