Awake

Penelope Dawson's peaceful life recently has been changed. The First World War came to her house and separated her from her beloved brother Sammy. Her mother did not accept this news well, and a few days later she was hospitalized with the heart stroke.
And now, 17-years-old Penelope has to take care of her father, who got in an accident, two small brothers, and a sister. The war took away their small business, and now they are broke, moving away from their native Tallahassee, Florida across the whole country into strange and probably cold Dearborn in Michigan.
Only the picture of her native home that she is drawing from her memory is giving Penelope hope that someday when she will finish it, her mother will get well, her father will recover and find a new job, Sammy will return home and everything will be good for them.
This touching story with the First World War atmosphere became an inspiration for all young girls of our country.