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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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Kim Vogel Sawyer, ACF Book of the Year winner for Waiting for Summer's Return, delivers historically rich tales with unforgettable characters. After an 1886 fire kills their parents, three children are split up. Keeping her parents' love letters, Maelle entrusts the family's picture to Mattie and its Bible to Molly. And, in a tearful parting, eight-year-old Maelle's vows to one day find her younger siblings.
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Orphan train novels (Jody Hedlund) volume 3
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English
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"Sophie Newmann has been taking care of two children, trying to keep th em away from the orphanages of 1850s New York City. After witnessing a crime, Sophie flees the state, taking her tow young charges and joining an orphan train heading west. But now she faces the agonizing possibility that the orphans will be placed in new homes. Sophie finds unexpected help in the form of Reinhold Weiss, who now owns a farm. Reinhold has mounting debs, a harvest...
6) Rodzina
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 6
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English
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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.
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The "orphan train" seemed like small-town spinster Adelaide Crum's last chance to know the simple joys of family life. So many lost children, every one of them dreaming only of a caring home -- the home she longed to offer. And yet the narrow-minded town elders refused to entrust even the most desperate child to a woman alone... . Newspaperman Charles Graves believed his heart was closed forever, but he swore to stand by this lovely, lonely woman...
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"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...
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"With his mother dead, his father gone, and his older brothers and sisters unable to help, eight-year-old Ethan Cooper knows it's his responsibility to keep him and his younger siblings together--even if that means going to an orphanage. Ethan, Alice, Simon, and Will settle into the Briarlane Christian Children's Home, where there's plenty to eat, plenty of work, and plenty of talk about a Father who never leaves. Even so, Ethan fears losing the only...
10) With you always
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One of the many immigrants struggling to survive in 1850s New York, Elise Neumann knows she must take action to care for her younger sisters. She finds a glimmer of hope when the New York Children's Aid Society starts sending skilled workers to burgeoning towns out west. But the promise of the Society's orphan trains is not all that it seems. Born into elite New York society, Thornton Quincy possesses everything except the ability to step out from...
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Angel of mercy series (Al Lacy) volume 5
Publisher
Multnomah Books
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English
17) One more sunrise
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Frontier doctor trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Multnomah Publishers
Pub. Date
[2004]
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English
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Orphan Train West series volume 2
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F. H. Revell
Pub. Date
[1990]
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English
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