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Author Warren, Andrea, author.

Title Orphan train rider : one boy's true story / by Andrea Warren.

Publication Info. Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1996.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe Kansas Collection  362.734 W251o 1996    ---  Lib Use Only
 Eureka Juvenile Non-Fiction  J 362.734 War    ---  Available
 Nettels Biography  B NAILING    ---  Available
 Nettels Non-Fiction  362.7 WARREN    ---  Available
 Pittsburg 1st Fl Juvenile Biography  J BIO Nailing    ---  Available
Edition First edition.
Description 80 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
text txt rdacontent
unmediated n rdamedia
volume nc rdacarrier
Awards Boston-Globe-Horn Book Award, 1996
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 73-74) and index.
Summary 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.
Audience 3-7.
Awards American Library Association Notable Children's Book 1997
Study Program Accelerated Reader AR MG 6.1 2.0 18487.
Reading Counts RC 3-5 6.6 4 Quiz: 08730 Guided reading level: V.
Accelerated Reader Grades 5-8 6.1 2 SD Quiz 18487 English non-fiction, vocabulary quiz available.
Contents Introduction: The Orphan Trains -- Chapter 1. Lee Loses His Mother -- Chapter 2. Too Many Orphans -- Chapter 3. Life in the Orphanage --Chapter 4. First Orphan Trains -- Chapter 5. Pink Envelope -- Chapter 6. Finding Homes for Orphans -- Chapter 7. Lee Arrives in Texas -- Chapter 8. When the Orphan Trains come to Town -- Chapter 9. Lee Finds a Home -- Chapter 10. Last Orphan Trains -- Chapter 11. Lee Loses One Brother and Finds Two More.
Subject Nailling, Lee, 1917-2001.
Orphan trains -- Juvenile literature.
Orphans -- United States -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Abandoned children -- United States -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Nailling, Lee, 1917-
Orphan trains.
Orphans.
Abandoned children.
Nailling, Lee, 1917-2001 (OCoLC)fst00348559
Abandoned children. (OCoLC)fst00794154
Orphan trains. (OCoLC)fst01048421
Orphans. (OCoLC)fst01048433
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Nailling, Lee, 1917-
Abandoned children -- United States -- Biography.
Orphans -- United States -- Biography.
Orphan trains.
Genre/Form Literature. (OCoLC)fst01921716
Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
Juvenile works. (OCoLC)fst01411637
Biographies.
Literature.
ISBN 0395698227
9780395698228
9780395913628 (pbk.)
0395913624 (pbk.)
9780613105224 (Tandem)
0613105222 (Tandem)
Standard No. 9780395913628 50995

 
    
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