Catalog Search Results
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.
23) 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.
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.
34) Keeping secrets
Author
Series
Orphan Train adventures volume 6
Language
English
Description
In 1863, eleven-year-old Peg Kelly is drawn into the dangerous activities of a mysterious young woman who had come to her home in Missouri after fleeing the raid of William Quantrill and his raiders on Lawrence, Kansas.
Author
Series
Orphan Train adventures volume 5
Language
English
Description
In 1861, while living with his foster parents at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, twelve-year-old Mike Kelly and his best friend Todd Blakely join the Union army as drummer boys but their dreams of glory end when they experience the full horrors of war at the Battle of Wilson's Creek in Missouri.
37) Circle of love
Author
Series
Orphan Train adventures volume 7
Pub. Date
[1997]
Physical Desc
167 pages ; 22 cm.
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.
38) Lucy's wish
Author
Series
Orphan Train children volume 1
Pub. Date
1998.
Physical Desc
116 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.
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.
Author
Series
Orphan train west volume 03
Pub. Date
2001.
Physical Desc
296 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
40) 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.
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try suggesting a purchase. Submit Request