Aunt Hannah and Seth

What do you do when you're a lame boy alone in the big city, and someone is advertising for you in the newspaper? That's the terrifying question facing Seth Barrows, nicknamed "Limpy Seth" - a quick-witted child making his own way on the streets of New York with only his small white dog Snip for company. When friends draw his attention to an advertisement seeking "the boy with the lame foot," panic seizes him. With nothing but instinct and desperation, Seth does the only thing he can: he runs. His flight takes him from the bustling city into the uncertain countryside, sleeping in barns, surviving on scraps, always looking over his shoulder. Then Aunt Hannah discovers him sheltering in her barn, and offers something Seth has never known: unconditional compassion and a chance for a new life. This is a story about what it means to be hunted, to be alone, to long so deeply for a place to belong that you'd risk everything to find it. It endures because it asks what we owe the most vulnerable among us.