Miss Morgan's Book Brigade

France, 1917 : As the Great War rages, heiress Anne Morgan founds the American Committee for Devastated France to help Frenchwomen who ave lost their livelihoods, homes, and husbands to enemy fire. As Morgan's crew rebuilds communities, provides medical care, and feeds orphans, French civilians of all ages have one request : books. In the debris of war, stories are the only escape. Morgan hires Jessie "Kit" Carson of the New York Public Library to establish something that the French have never seen : children's libraries.
New York, 1987 : While working in the NYPL archives, aspiring writer Wendy Peterson stumbles across an account of the deadly bombardment of French villages and the American women who risked their lives to evacuate civilians. She becomes consumed with learning about Carson's fate. Based on the extraordinary, little-known history of the American women who received the Croix de Guerre medal for courage under fire, Miss Morgan's Book Brigade is a tribute to the resilience of the human spirit, the power of literature, and, ultimately, the courage it takes to make a change.