Join Hands and Sing

A lady and man came up to Danny. "Do you see?" she exclaimed. "He looks just like John! Oh, William, we must take him!" "What's your name, son?" the man asked. "Danny Murphy," the boy answered. "We are Sarah and William Dawson," the woman was saying. "Would you like to come home with us, Danny? Would you like to be our son?" Son! Danny could not answer. The only people to whom he was a son were dead. Right now, all Danny wanted was to get off that platform. He wanted to put on his old clothes, stand on a corner, and play his whistle. But most of all, Danny wanted to run. He felt like the rats he had seen in traps set by the shop owners in New York. Book jacket.Muldoon, Kathleen is the author of 'Join Hands and Sing', published 2003 under ISBN 9780756909901 and ISBN 0756909902.