� It is a young adult book about an orphan child traveling with a Gypsy caravan. She is adopted and educated by a wealthy woman who loves her as if she were her own child. Her benefactress loses her fortune, but Nan does her part to help the household survive economically. When her long lost uncle arrives from Romania, Nan learns that her father was a famous Gypsy musician and her mother came from a wealthy and important Romanian family. When her mother and father died unexpectedly when she was a baby, she was given to her father�s sister to be raised among the Gypsies. Difficulties among the Gypsy clan forced her to leave the caravan, and thus she was adopted and raised by the wealthy woman. In the end, a neighbor boy who has loved Nan for years marries her, and they go on a Gypsy honeymoon in a �roulotte.� (wooden caravan pulled by horse) It is indeed a bit of a �fairy tale.�
