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Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
440L
Language
English
Description
While searching for Eugene, who is missing somewhere in time, time-travelling cousins Patick and Beth arrive on an orphan train heading west in 1874 and befriend an orphan falsely accused of being part of a train robbery.
Author
Publisher
Roadworthy
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
"Riders on the Orphan Train is a novel about a little-known piece of American history. Bewteen 1854 and 1929, over 250,000 orphans and 'surrendered' children were 'placed out' across the country. They started their journey in New York and were given away in train stations in every state in the continental United States. This is the story of two children from very different backgrounds, Ezra Duval and Elizabeth Farrell, who find themselves on the same...
9) Orphan train
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
890L
Language
English
Description
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...
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
700L
Language
English
Description
Molly Ayer has been in foster care since she was eight years old. Most of the time, Molly knows it's her attitude that's the problem, but after being shipped from one family to another, she's had her fair share of adults treating her like an inconvenience. So when Molly's forced to help an elderly woman clean out her attic for community service, Molly is wary. Just another adult to treat her like a troublemaker. But from the very moment they meet,...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Montana 1925: An Irish boy orphaned by Spanish flu, a tiny girl who won't speak, and a volatile young man who lies about his age to escape Hell's Kitchen, are paraded on train platforms across the Midwest to work-worn folks. They journey countless miles, racing the sun westward. Before they reach the last rejection and stop, the oldest, Charles, comes up with a daring plan, and alone, they set off toward the Yellowstone River and grassy mountains...
Author
Series
Publisher
Bethany House Publishers
Pub. Date
2001.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
In 1854, a group of children who come from different circumstances to the Children's Aid Society in New York come under the care of Rev. Charles Brace, who eventually finds homes for them in Cowagiac, Michigan.
Author
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
In 1904, New York nuns brought forty Irish orphans to a remote Arizona mining camp to be placed with Catholic families. The Catholic families were Mexican, as was the majority of the population. Soon the town's Anglos, furious at this "interracial" transgression, formed a vigilante squad that kidnapped the children and nearly lynched the nuns and the local priest. The Catholic Church sued to get its wards back, but all the courts, including the U.S....
Author
Series
Orphan train volume 3
Language
English
Description
"In 1850, Sophie Neumann flees New York with her two young charges after witnessing a crime. Reinhold Weiss has finally purchased his own small farm when an old friend shows up, pleading for help. But how can he help her when mounting debts and past scars still haunt him?"--
1850. After witnessing a crime, Sophie Neumann needs to flee New York with her two young charges. She manages to find passage to Illinois on an orphan train, with the aid of...
16) Lucy's wish
Author
Series
Orphan train children volume 1
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
1998.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
600L
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.
18) Will's choice
Author
Series
Orphan train children volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
620L
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.
19) Aggie's home
Author
Series
Orphan train children volume 3
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[1998]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
690L
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.
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