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6) Orphan train
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
Penobscot Indian Molly Ayer is close to 'aging out' out of the foster care system. A community service position helping an elderly woman clean out her home is the only thing keeping Molly out of juvie and worse.... As she helps Vivian sort through her possessions and memories, Molly learns that she and Vivian aren't as different as they seem to be. A young Irish immigrant orphaned in New York City, Vivian was put on a train to the Midwest with hundreds...
Author
Series
Orphan's journey volume 2
Publisher
Chariot Family Pub
Pub. Date
1993
Language
English
Description
In 1908 eight-year-old Ethan and his three younger siblings ride an Orphan Train into Nebraska, where they hope with God's help to start a new life on a farm.
11) Aggie's home
Author
Series
Orphan train children volume 3
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
1998
Language
English
Description
A clumsy and unattractive twelve-year-old, Aggie is sure no one will want to adopt her when she rides the orphan train out west, but when she meets the eccentric Bradon family she begins to have some hope. Includes historical information about orphan trains and the woman's suffrage movement.
14) Rodzina
Author
Language
English
Description
Rodzina Clara Jadwiga Anastazya Brodski, a strong and stubborn Polish orphan, leaves Chicago on an orphan train, expecting to be adopted and turned into a slave—or worse, not to be adopted at all. As the train rattles westward, she begins to develop attachments to her fellow travelers, even the frosty orphan guardian, and to accept the idea that there might be good homes for orphans—maybe even for a big, combative Polish girl. But no placement...
Author
Publisher
Outskirts Press, Inc
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
A quarter million children were touched by the Orphan Train movement from 1854 - 1929. Less than one hundred of these people still survive today to share their unique story. Our history books lacked this pertinent information until recently. Although this was the start of what we know today as foster care and adoption, riders were often "looked down upon or felt ashamed".--Amazon.com.
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Presents a young reader's version of a story in which Molly, close to aging out of the foster care system, takes a position helping an elderly woman named Vivian and discovers that they are more alike than different as she helps Vivian solve a mystery from her past.
20) Hickok & Cody
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
Wild Bill Hickok and Buffalo Bill Cody attempt to stop an orphan train that sells children from New York's Lower East Side to the highest bidder, and to end Manhattan's rampant corruption in their quest for justice.
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