The book hetty feather

Hetty was abandoned at the Foundling Hospital as a newborn baby. Children abandoned at the Hospital are fostered until the age of six, at that exact age they have to be returned to the hospital to start their education. Hetty spends her early years as a foster child under the care of Peg and John who she knows as her mother and her father. She is largely unaware that she will one day have to leave them. There are several other foster children in her home as well as Peg and John's own children. Jem, Nat, Rosie and Eliza are the pair's own children; whereas Martha, Saul and Gideon are foundlings. There are also Bess and Nora, who are away in service, and Marcus, who is a soldier. Hetty especially likes Jem, who is five years older than she is, and who treats her very kindly. Hetty is a fiesty, redheaded child who often gets into trouble but who is generally kind-hearted and loved by the family.