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In Wyoming in 1874, Mary, Johnny, and Lizzie Marston, along with 60 other children, line the platform at the Cheyenne train station as Dan and Clara Forbes and other locals contemplate taking one child home to a new life. Will they be separated? Will they be wanted? Will the West offer a better life than the one they left behind?
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Multnomah Publishers
Pub. Date
c2003
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English
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In New York City in 1876, ten-year-old Teddy Hansen is left at the orphanage by his dying mother. When police officer Justin Smith is killed by bank robbers, his son Johnny is taken there, too. As overcrowded conditions threaten to force them into the streets, the two boys, along with abandoned twins Donna and Deena Mitchell, board an orphan train soon leaving for the West.
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Marianne Neumann takes a job as a placing agent with the Children's Aid Society in hopes of finding her younger sister. In 1858 New York she finds it's not always easy to offer children a better life. Former schoolteacher Andrew Brady suffers from a grief that won't go away-- and keeps hidden a secret from his past. As the two team up to place orphans across Illinois, a shocking tragedy threatens their work-- and changes one of their lives forever....
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Orphan train volume 2
Publisher
Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2018]
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English
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Marianne Neumann takes a job as a placing agent with the Children's Aid Society in hopes of finding her younger sister. In 1858 New York she finds it's not always easy to offer children a better life. Former schoolteacher Andrew Brady suffers from a grief that won't go away-- and keeps hidden a secret from his past. As the two team up to place orphans across Illinois, a shocking tragedy threatens their work-- and changes one of their lives forever....