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After The Rain King After The Rain King Steph DeFerie Glory may be just a little kid but she's in big trouble - when she opens a locked book she finds in an old trunk, a mysterious stranger jumps out! "I am the Rain King, the Lord of Tears, the Master … OL11704120W
Dreams of a longing heart Dreams of a longing heart Jane Peart It is the spring of 1890.Three eight-year-old girls leave overcrowded, bleak Greystone orphanage near Boston and set out together on the "Orphan Train" heading West to adoptive homes. Along the way, … OL14854052W
Suffer the little children Suffer the little children Al Lacy Continuing with the adventures of Old West heroine Breanna Baylor, book five of the Angel of Mercy series finds Breanna once again facing danger and reaching out to those in need of love...and Christ… OL14911940W
Lucy's wish Lucy's wish Joan Lowery Nixon 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. OL15130603W
Trouble on the Orphan Train Trouble on the Orphan Train Marianne Hering When they step into the Imagination Station, kids experience an unforgettable journey filled with action-packed adventure. With each book, they’re whisked away with cousins Patrick and Beth to embark… OL17369951W
Hellie Jondoe Hellie Jondoe Randall Beth Platt In 1918, as the Great War ends and the Spanish influenza pandemic begins, thirteen-year-old Hellie Jondoe survives on the streets of New York as a beggar and pickpocket until she boards the orphan tr… OL18659165W
Hank's story Hank's story Jane Buchanan In 1923, twelve-year-old Hank and his older brother Peter travel on the Orphan Train from New York to Nebraska where they find a miserable existence living on a farm with a disagreeable and abusive c… OL1920352W
Roundup of the Street Rovers: Charles Loring Brace (Trailblazer Books #36) Roundup of the Street Rovers: Charles Loring Brace (Trailblazer Books #36) Dave Jackson 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… OL19339513W
The orphan train to destiny The orphan train to destiny Tom Riley Marvel at John Brady's survival of childhood hardships, join him as he ventures into the rugged Alaska Territory in the late 1800s, walk the streets of early Juneau, Alaska, then, hang on tight durin… OL22907610W
Riders on the orphan train Riders on the orphan train Alison Moore "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. The… OL28963041W
One more sunrise One more sunrise Al Lacy Countless perils menaced the early settlers of the Wild West - and not the least of them was the lack of medical care. Dr. Dane Logan, a former street waif who has been adopted by a doctor's family i… OL50804W
Land of dreams Land of dreams Cheryl St. John JEWEL OF THE PRAIRIE Ex-Major Booker Hayes had seen how much love this sun-kissed farmer's daughter had to give. And he wanted her in his life. As a mother to his orphaned niece, and much more. For … OL5696727W
Poor as church mice Poor as church mice Roselyn Ogden Miller Twelve-year-old Nora and her younger sister and brothers struggle to stay together and to someday be reunited with their mother after they travel from New York City to Nebraska on the orphan train in… OL7796666W
Looking for home Looking for home Arleta Richardson In 1907, while starting a new life in a Christian orphanage, eight-year-old Ethan and his three younger siblings hear about the prospect of being sent west on an Orphan Train and pray to stay togethe… OL823168W
My Heart Remembers My Heart Remembers Kim Vogel Sawyer United by blood, divided by time, will three orphan train siblings ever find one another again? Orphaned in a tenement fire, three Irish-immigrant children are sent to Missouri to be adopted. Desp… OL8507293W
Train to Somewhere Train to Somewhere Ronald Himler,Eve Bunting In the late 1800s, Marianne travels westward on the Orphan Train in hopes of being placed with a caring family. OL97573W