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21) 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.
22) 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
Series
Hearts on the rails volume 2
Pub. Date
[2018?]
Physical Desc
344 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Bella Jones and Kathleen Collins are as close as sisters and that's how they want things to stay. But fate intervenes. Kathleen's brothers have disappeared, they traveled from New York on the Orphan Train and nobody has heard from them since. She can't shed her gut feeling something awful has happened to them. She goes looking for them but is she prepared for what she will find? Twins, Megan and Eileen Doyle have lost so much already. Bella can't...
24) 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.
25) 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
Series
Orphan train west volume 03
Pub. Date
2001.
Physical Desc
296 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Hearts on the rails volume 5
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
357 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Two New York girls, Maria Mezza and Alice Doe wake up one November morning in 1906. Their lives are about to change forever. Maria is heading to her first job in a shirtwaist factory wishing she was heading to the country side. Alice is leaving New York to find a new family in Illinois country side. Three years later, the paths of the two girls will converge once more. Gone is the innocence of youth yet both girls are desperately hoping their lives...
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...
Author
Series
Orphan train trilogy volume 2nd story
Pub. Date
2007.
Physical Desc
214 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
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?--
33) One more sunrise
Author
Series
Frontier doctor trilogy volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Dr. Dane Logan, a renowned surgeon, provides much needed medical care to settlers while trying to locate Tharyn, the woman he has loved for years, and going up against a ruthless gang of outlaws.
Author
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
278 pages ; 17 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Groomed for high society, Rebecca Sterling now has a new mission--to help the orphans coming to Evans Grove. Yet just before she's due to return to New York, she faces two unexpected challenges. There's the tiny infant abandoned on her orphanage steps ... and the big, gruff cowboy who found him. Colton Hayes knows nothing about babies and even less about pampered socialites. But as he and Rebecca work together to watch over little Gabriel, he comes...
Author
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
112 pages : color illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Describes the people and events involved in the orphan trains. The reader's choices reveal the historical details from the perspectives of a New York City newsboy, a child trying to keep his siblings together, and a child sent west on the baby trains"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Seven years ago, orphaned and alone, Em finally arrived at a new home in Iowa after riding the orphan train. But secrets from her past haunt her, and her new life in the Western wilderness is a rough one. When her guardian is shot and killed, Em, now nineteen, finally has the chance to search for her long-lost sister, but she wont be able to do it alone. For Azure Springs Sheriff Caleb Reynolds, securing justice for the waifish and injured Em is just...
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (94 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Inspired by a true story, former P.O.W. Jack Calgrove moves Heaven and Earth to be reunited with his children following the Civil War. After returning home, Jack finds out his wife has died and his children, presumed orphans, are heading deep into the West aboard a train bound for hostile territories. Calgrove and another former soldier are joined by a troop of Native American sharpshooters and a freed slave, as they race to intercept the orphan train...
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