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2) Aggie's home
Author
Series
Orphan Train children volume 3
Pub. Date
[1998]
Physical Desc
116 pages : illustrations, map ; 20 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
Pub. Date
[1998]
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.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2001.
Physical Desc
153 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1902 sixteen-year-old Kristin travels with her family from Sweden to a new life in Minnesota, where she finds herself frustrated by the restrictions placed on what girls of her age are expected or allowed to do.
5) Land of hope
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2001.
Physical Desc
171 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Rebekah, a fifteen-year-old Jewish immigrant arriving in New York City in 1902, almost abandons her dream of getting an education when she is forced to work in a sweatshop.
Author
Series
Young Americans volume 5
Pub. Date
[2001]
Physical Desc
167 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
In Williamsburg, Virginia, two years before the start of the American Revolution, nine-year-old Maria worries that her mother will lose her contract to publish official reports and announcements of the British government because she prints anti-British articles in their family-run newspaper.
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