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Series
Publisher
Bantam Doubleday Dell Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c1987
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 7
Physical Desc
162 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
When their mother can no longer support them, six siblings are sent by the Children's Aid Society of New York City to live with farm families in Missouri in 1860.
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.
Author
Series
Publisher
Bantam Doubleday Dell Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c1988
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 6
Physical Desc
151 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
Deeply unhappy about her family's separation because of poverty, Megan gradually finds contentment and purpose in her new home on the Kansas prairie with a kind and loving adopted family.
4) 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.
6) 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.
Author
Series
Orphan train children volume 2
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
119 p. : ill., map ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
Sent away on an orphan train by his self-centered father Jessie, Will keeps hoping Jessie will return to claim him, even though the people he lives with care for him far more.
Author
Series
Orphan trains trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Multnomah Publishers
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
349p. 21cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Orphan trains trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Multnomah Publishers
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
355p. 21cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Orphan trains trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Multnomah Publishers
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
345p. 21cm.
Language
English
11) With you always
Author
Series
Publisher
Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Physical Desc
359 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When a financial crisis in 1850s New York leaves three orphaned sisters nearly destitute, the oldest, Elise Neumann, knows she must take action. She's had experience as a seamstress, and the New York Children's Aid Society has established a special service: placing out seamstresses and trade girls. Even though Elise doesn't want to leave her sisters for a job in Illinois, she realizes this may be their last chance. The son of one of New York City's...
Author
Series
Orphan train volume 3
Publisher
Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
341 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Sophie Neumann flees New York to protect two young children after witnessing a crime, she seeks the help of old friend Reinhold Weiss, a disadvantaged farmer who is haunted by his past.
13) Together forever
Author
Series
Orphan train volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Marianne Neumann takes a job as a placing agent with the Children's Aid Society in 1858 New York in order to find her lost sister, and is teamed up with former schoolteacher Andrew Brady, a man with an easy way with children and a past he keeps hidden.