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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 13
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"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...
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Pub. Date
[2001]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 4
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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.
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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...
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Orphan Train children volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 2
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.
7) Lucy's wish
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Series
Orphan Train children volume 1
Pub. Date
[1998]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 2
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.
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Pub. Date
2016.
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"Since their mama died and their pa left, Ethan, Alice, Simon, and Will Cooper have not known much of a home. But now that the orphan train has taken them to Mr. and Mrs. Rush in Nebraska, their dreams of home may become a reality. The kids discover that life on a farm is full of challenges. Ethan learns how to drive a plow, watch for snakes, and deal with bullies at the country school. Alice learns to slop the hogs and live with a big sister who...
11) Aggie's home
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Series
Orphan Train children volume 3
Pub. Date
[1998]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 2
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.
12) Rodzina
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Pub. Date
[2003]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 6
Description
A twelve-year-old Polish American girl is boarded onto an orphan train in Chicago with fears about traveling to the West and a life of unpaid slavery.
13) David's Search
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Series
Orphan train children volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 2
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 volume 1
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
An immigrant woman struggling to survive in New York in the 1850s and a man born into elite New York society are thrown together against all odds. The spark that ignites between them is undeniable (Derived from back cover).
15) Circle of Love
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Orphan Train adventures volume 7
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
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.
17) Worth
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 4
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After breaking his leg, eleven-year-old Nate feels useless because he cannot work on the family farm in nineteenth-century Nebraska, so when his father brings home an orphan boy to help with the chores, Nate feels even worse.
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Pub. Date
2017.
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Will Bert is searching for his brother, a newsboy named Freddie, saying he wants to share his recent financial good fortune. Frank Malloy finds the boy, but when Will's name is mentioned, Freddie runs off... and is found dead a short time later. Suspicious, Frank tracks down Will who spins a tale of lust and deceit involving a young society woman, Estelle Longacre, also recently deceased. Frank will need Sarah's help to unearth the dark secrets of...
20) Keeping secrets
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Series
Orphan Train adventures volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 6
Description
In 1863, eleven-year-old Peg Kelly is drawn into the dangerous activities of a mysterious young woman who takes refuge with the Kelly family in Missouri after fleeing the attack on Lawrence, Kansas, by William Quantrill and his Confederate raiders.