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We Rode the Orphan Trains (Hardcover)
- Author: Andrea Warren
- Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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True stories of some of the orphaned children who participated in the "Orphan Train" program run by the Children's Aid Society. This program, which ran from 1854 to 1929, took orphaned children, mostly from cities of the eastern United States, and put them on trains headed for other states where they would join families who had agreed to adopt them. Here the author profiles such orphans as twins Nettie and Nellie Evans who were rescued from their first--and, unfortunately, abusive--placement and later adopted by a loving family, and brothers Howard and Fred who managed to remain close despite the fact that they were adopted by different families.
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- Genre: Biography & Autobiography, Juvenile Nonfiction
- Subgenre: Family / Orphans & Foster Homes, General, History / United States / 20th Century
- Age: 9-12 years
- Date Published: October 29, 2001
- Release Date: October 29, 2001
- Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- Author: Andrea Warren
- Pages: 132
- Format: Hardcover
Additional Information
- DPCI: 247-00-2664
- ASIN: B002HM7DV8
- Catalog #: 11320020
- ISBN: 9780618117123
- Item can be gift wrapped.
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- Estimated Ship Weight: 1.30 pounds.
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