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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
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Co
Pub. Date
[2001]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
This book contains the stories of some of the children who rode the "orphan trains" and who tell of the transition and adventure; disappointment and loneliness, and for some, the joy of belonging to their own new families.
Author
Series
Orphan Train adventures volume 7
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Nineteen-year-old Frances Mary Kelly, herself an orphan train rider six years before, returns to New York and agrees to escort a group of orphans west to find new homes.
Author
Language
English
Description
Publisher description: In mid-nineteenth-century New York, vagrant youth, both orphans and runaways, filled the streets. For years the city had been sweeping these children into prisons or almshouses, but in 1853 the young minister Charles Loring Brace proposed a radical solution to the problem by creating the Children's Aid Society, an organization that fought to provide homeless children with shelter, education, and, for many, a new family in the...
Author
Series
Orphan Train children volume 2
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 2
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.
10) 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
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.
12) The Basket
Author
Language
English
Description
In the midst of a nation reeling from WWI, two German orphans move from a wartime internment camp to a Pacific Northwest farming community where they find both support and hostility from others who have lost sons in the war.
13) Free to breathe
Author
Language
English
Description
In this tender and atmospheric tale, the author leads the reader into the wild heart of Wyoming, but also into the heart of every boy who yearns to be free.
Author
Series
Orphan train children volume 2
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 2
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.
15) Orphan train
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Illustrations and rhyming text tell the story of a sister and two brothers who become orphans, are taken in, and make a journey aboard an orphan train to separate new homes.
Author
Series
Angel of mercy series (Al Lacy) volume 5
Publisher
Multnomah Books
Pub. Date
c1997
Language
English
Description
Breanna helped cure the children of influenza. But could anything heal their broken hearts?
Author
Series
Publisher
Multnomah Publishers
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
Young Dane Weston's dream is to become a doctor. But it will take more than just determination to realize his goal, once his family is murdered and he ends up in a colony of street waifs begging for food. Then he ends up mistaken for a murderer himself and sentenced to life in prison. Now what will become of his friendship with the pretty orphan girl, Tharyn, who wanted to enter the medical profession herself? Does she feel he is anything more than...
Author
Publisher
PublishAmerica
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Echoes from the Orphan Train weaves captivating tale of a young boy's journey in 1885 from New York City to a new beginning in a small Missouri town. After the death of his family, twelve-year-old Albert Hunter is sent westward via the "orphan train."
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