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Author
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
618 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Bringing back to the twenty-first century an epic novel of substance and style, Orphan in America is a compelling fiction that follows three generations across vast distances and the impact of a dark and unfamiliar episode of America's past; the Orphan Train. Set in the 1800s, Orphan in America extends far beyond the genre of historical fiction. This odyssey begins with Alex, an innocent young boy, living in the slums of New York. Like thousands of...
42) Will's choice
Author
Series
Orphan Train children volume 2
Pub. Date
1998.
Physical Desc
119 pages : illustrations, 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
Hearts on the rails volume 4
Pub. Date
[2019?]
Physical Desc
369 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Kathleen Green longs for a child of her own. Her work with the orphan trains only serve to heighten her need. When tragedy strikes, will she get the child she always wanted? Will the cost be worth it?--
Author
Series
Hearts on the rails volume 6
Pub. Date
[2020?]
Physical Desc
369 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
"It's 1911 and Lily's plans for her factory are not progressing as fast as she would like. Maria, her sister Rosa, and friend Leonie are still working at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory. Maria and Conrad have agreed it's pointless finding new jobs when they will soon be joining Lily's factory. Rosa can think of nothing but her upcoming marriage and Leonie worries how she is going to look after her four siblings when their mother falls very ill. Frieda...
50) Orphan train
Author
Pub. Date
[1978]
Physical Desc
307 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1853, twenty-seven abandoned children travel west to find new homes and lives.
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
357 pages ; 19 cm
Language
Español
Description
The story of two very different women who build an unexpected friendship: a 91-year-old woman with a hidden past as an orphan-train rider and the teenage girl whose own troubled adolescence leads her to seek answers to questions no one has ever thought to ask. A tale of upheaval and resilience, second chances, and unexpected friendship.
54) David's search
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
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
iii, 269 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Raised on a farm, Tabitha Salt, the daughter of Irish immigrants, leads a bucolic and sheltered existence. When tragedy strikes the family, Tabitha and her mother are forced to move to the notorious Five Points District in New York City, known for its brothels, gangs, gambling halls, corrupt politicians and thieves. As they struggle to survive in their new living conditions, tragedy strikes again. Young Tabitha resorts to life alone on the streets...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
161 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Twin sisters Nettie and Nellie Crook are taken away from their disfunctional parents in 1910 when they are only five years old, and placed in an orphanage--at six they are put on the orphan train by the Children's Aid Society and moved from New York City to Kansas, ending up in a household where they are treated more as servants than children.
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