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Author
Series
Publisher
Bantam Doubleday Dell Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c1988
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 6
Physical Desc
150 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Michael Patrick Kelly from New York City is sent to a foster home, a Missouri farm with a sadistic owner, a bullying son, and a number of secrets, one of which may be murder.
2) Lucy's wish
Author
Series
Orphan train children volume 1
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
116 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
Ten-year-old Lucy, an orphan who wants a little sister more than anything, finds a very special one in the less than perfect family which she joins.
3) Aggie's home
Author
Series
Orphan train children volume 3
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
1998
Physical Desc
116 p. : ill., map ; 18 cm.
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.
Author
Series
Orphan train children volume 4
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
127 p. : ill., map ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
After eleven-year-old orphan-train rider David Howard settles with a strict Texas farm family, his best friend, an ex-slave, is threatened by the growing presence of the Ku-Klux Klan.