Simplified Chinese edition of Orphan Train, a heart wrenching, gripping tale of a 9-year-old girl who lost her family in a fire while they were on their journey to America. A New York Times bestseller by Christina Baker Kline. In Simplified Chinese. Annotation copyright Tsai Fong Books, Inc. Distributed by Tsai Fong Books, Inc.
Moving between contemporary Maine and Depression-era Minnesota, Orphan Train is a powerful tale of upheaval and resilience, second chances, and unexpected friendship.
This young readers’ edition of Christina Baker Kline’s #1 New York Times bestselling novel Orphan Train follows a twelve-year-old foster girl who forms an unlikely bond with a ninety-one-year-old woman.
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.
The true story behind Christina Baker Kline’s bestselling novel is revealed in this “engaging and thoughtful history” of the Children’s Aid Society (Los Angeles Times).
Illustrations and rhyming text tell the story of a sister and two brothers who become orphans, are taken in, and make a journey aboard an orphan train to separate new homes.
This well-written volume sheds new light on the multifaceted experience of children's immigration, changing concepts of welfare, and Western expansion. It is good, scholarly social history."—Library Journal
Describes the journey many orphan children took looking for families and homes to call their own.
Bridget Collins is in dire straits - she needs to get out of New York, fast.
This is the story of one such child. As a young Irish immigrant, Vivian Daly was sent by rail from New York City to an uncertain future a world away.
Twin sisters Nettie and Nellie Crook are taken away from their disfunctional parents in 1910 when they are only five years old and placed in an orphanage--at six they are put on the orphan train by the Children's Aid Society and moved from ...