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Dreams of a longing heart
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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, … |
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Hellie Jondoe
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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… |
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The orphan train to destiny
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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… |
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Riders on the orphan train
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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… |
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Land of dreams
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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 … |
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Poor as church mice
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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… |
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