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Beyond The Orphan Train (Books)
Oliver and Edward Nordmark are young boys in 1906 when they are plucked from their New York orphanage and placed on one of America's Orphan Trains to Kansas. After being sent ...
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Dangerous Promise: The Orphan Train Adventures
It's 1861, and although Mike Kelly is far younger than the legal age of 16, he and his best friend Todd secretly join up with the Second Kansas Infantry and become army drummer boys. Mike's dreams of glory end when he's wounded at the bloody Battle of Wilson's Creek and must begin a dangerous adventure behind enemy lines. The Orphan Train Adventures have won two Golden Spur Awards.
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Join Hands And Sing: An Orphan Train Story (cover-To-Cover Books. Chap
Join Hands And Sing: An Orphan Train Story (cover-To-Cover Books. Chap
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A Dangerous Promise (Orphan Train Adventures)
A Dangerous Promise (Orphan Train Adventures) by Joan Lowery Nixon Published in 1999 by Tandem Library
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Orphan Trains to Missouri
In 1853 a man by the name of Charles Loring Brace, along with other well-to-do men in New York City, founded the Children`s Aid Society. The society planned to give food, lodging, and clothing to homeless children and provide educational and trade opportunities for them. But the number of children needing help was so large that the Children`s Aid Society was unable to care for them, and Brace developed a plan to send many of the children to the rural Midwest by train. Orphan Trains to Missouri documents the
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Plains Bound: Fragile Cargo: Revealing Orphan Train Reality
New - Travel through History with Orphan Train Riders Many poor immigrants coming to America in the late 19th and early 20th centuries left poverty and oppression only to discover that conditions were not much better in the new world Orphanages could not hold all the homeless children. Beginning in 1854, charitable organizations in New York City began sending orphans on trains to the west to find new families. As the train made its stops the children were lined up on courthouse lawns to be exami
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Orphan Train Rider: One Boy's True Story (Books)
Discusses the placement of over 200,000 orphaned or abandoned children in homes throughout the Midwest from 1854 to 1929 by recounting the story of one boy and his brothers.
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Beyond The Orphan Train
Oliver and Edward Nordmark are young boys in 1906 when they are plucked from their New York orphanage and placed on one of America's Orphan Trains to Kansas. After being sent to different farms, the brothers lose track of one another. In 1913, fifteen-year-old Oliver decides to hop a freight train and strike out on his own in hopes of finding his lost brother. Follow Oliver's true story of adventure and discovery as he learns to live by his wits and survive on his own - a child alone in a man's world. Where
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Plains Bound: Fragile Cargo: Revealing Orphan Train Reality
Travel through History with Orphan Train Riders Many poor immigrants coming to America in the late 19th and early 20th centuries left poverty and oppression only to discover that conditions were not much better in the new world Orphanages could not hold all the homeless children. Beginning in 1854, charitable organizations in New York City began sending orphans on trains to the west to find new families. As the train made its stops the children were lined up on courthouse lawns to be examined by prospective
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They Named Me Marjorie: The Brave Journey Of An Orphan Train Rider
They Named Me Marjorie: The Brave Journey Of An Orphan Train Rider
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A Place to Belong (Orphan Train Adventures)
A Place to Belong (Orphan Train Adventures) A Place to Belong (Orphan Train Adventures) by Joan Lowery Nixon ISBN 0440226961 EAN 9780440226963 Pages 160 Dimensions: Length: 6.7" Width: 4.1" Height: 0.5" Weight: 0.15 lbs. Release Date May 21, 1996 25 units. Nov 11, 2009 05:13 Books > Subjects > Children's Books > History & Historical Fiction > United States > Fiction > 1800s [424 similar products] Books > Subjects > Children's Books > History & Historical Fiction > United States > Fiction > General [262
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The Orphan Train
This fall marks the 150th anniversary of one of the least known and yet most significant social experiments in American history....
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The Mystery of the Orphan Train
The Mystery of the Orphan Train Online Price: $4.50 In Kansas, the Boxcar Children stay in a beautiful Bed and Breakfast owned by Grandfather's friend, Kate Crawford. The children learn that the famous photographer Ethan Cape once stayed there and that there is almost nothing known about his early life. The children meet the other guests. Professor Brewer is not friendly and seems shocked to learn about the Ethan Cape photo of Kate's grandmother. They also meet the Mavins, a young couple who seem very
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In The Face of Danger (Orphan Train Adventures)
Grade 5-8 The third volume in the projected ``Orphan Train Quartet'' tells the story of 12-year-old Megan Kelly after Emma and Benjamin Browder take her to...
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All My Tomorrows (Orphan Trains Trilogy)
All My Tomorrows (Orphan Trains Trilogy) Al Lacy Description When 62 orphans and abandoned children leave New York City on a train headed out West, they have no idea what to expect. Will they get separated from their friends or siblings? Will their new families love them? Will a family even pick them at all? Future events are wilder than any of them could imagine - ranging from kidnappings and whippings to stowing away on wagon trains, from starting orphanages of their own to serving as missionaries to the
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The Orphan Trains - Closed Cap Used DVD. No scratches in great conditi
Used DVD. The Orphan Trains - Closed Cap staring Artist Not Provided
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Hetty Turnbull and the Orphan Train
Hetty Turnbull and the Orphan Train Phyllis Coe Nevins It's the 19th century and the Children's Aid Society is sending "orphan trains" filled with children across the country. It's nothing less than a mass exodus from homelessness and poverty in big Eastern cities to new lives with farm families. It's a brave journey into the unknown; happiness or misery is equally possible. Children's Aid workers such as Hetty Turnbull accompany the children on the trains. Hetty, trying to save herself from caring too much
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