The Orphan Train Adventures

Author : Joan Lowery Nixon
Publisher : Delacorte Press
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2013-11-27
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780307827555

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A Family Apart by Joan Lowery Nixon Pdf

FOR LOVERS OF HISTORICAL ADVENTURE, A FAMILY APART IS THE MIDDLE-GRADE ANSWER TO CHRISTINA BAKER KLINE'S NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING ORPHAN TRAIN. Imagine being taken from your home. Imagine your mother is the one who lets it happen. This is the fate that befalls the Kelly children. It’s 1856, and their widowed mother has sent them west from New York City because she’s convinced that she can’t give them the life they deserve. The Kellys board an “orphan train” and are taken to St. Joseph, Missouri, where their problems only grow worse. It was bad enough that they had to say goodbye to their mother, but now they’re forced to part ways with their fellow siblings as well. Thirteen-year-old Frances won’t stand for it. She’s going to protect her brothers and sisters, even if it means dressing up like a boy and putting herself in danger. Will Frances be able to save her siblings? And what about her mom—was splitting up their family really her greatest act of love? Ride the rails with Frances and her siblings to find out! “This is as close to a perfect book as you’ll buy this year.” –VOYA

Author : Joan Lowery Nixon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1999-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 083682637X

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The Orphan Train Adventures by Joan Lowery Nixon Pdf

Author : Joan Lowery Nixon
Publisher : Delacorte Press
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2013-11-27
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780307827531

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A Dangerous Promise by Joan Lowery Nixon Pdf

It's 1861, and although Mike Kelly is far younger than the legal age of 16, he and his best friend Todd secretly join up with the Second Kansas Infantry and become army drummer boys. Mike's dreams of glory end when he's wounded at the bloody Battle of Wilson's Creek and must begin a dangerous adventure behind enemy lines.

Author : Joan Lowery Nixon
Publisher : Laurel Leaf
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1996-05-21
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780440226963

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A Place to Belong by Joan Lowery Nixon Pdf

Danny and his younger sister, Peg, are placed in St. Joseph, Missouri, with kind Alfrid and Olga Swenson. Danny is thrilled to have a "real" father again, but when Olga suddenly dies, he is devastated—until he thinks of an ingenious plan to find Alfrid a new wife.

Author : Joan Lowery Nixon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2006-07-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1419341650

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The Case of the Gypsy Good-bye

Author : Joan Lowery Nixon
Publisher : Laurel Leaf
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1996-07-01
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780440227052

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In The Face of Danger by Joan Lowery Nixon Pdf

Shy Megan Kelly cannot forget the day a gypsy read her palm announcing to all that she would bring trouble to those around her. Afterward, trouble does follow her, until she takes the necessary steps to free herself from the burdens of fear, loneliness, and superstition

Author : Joan Lowery Nixon
Publisher : Delacorte Press
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2013-11-27
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780307827562

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Caught in the Act by Joan Lowery Nixon Pdf

As the saga of the Kelly children continues, Mike Kelly is adopted by a German immigrant farm family living in Missouri. Although they are kind to him, they are mainly interested in having cheap labor.

Author : Joan Lowery Nixon
Publisher : Delacorte Press
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2013-11-27
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780307827609

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Circle of Love by Joan Lowery Nixon Pdf

The Civil War has officially ended and Frances Mary Kelly's true love, Johnny, is back from the war. But to Frances's dismay, Johnny is hesitant to marry her. Attempting to ease her aching heart, Frances accepts an offer to go to New York City and escort a group of orphans out West to new homes. Along the way, she must deal with a flood of painful memories and a threatening stranger. Will Frances be able to complete her mission... and return home to find out what her future will be?

Author : Joan Lowery Nixon
Publisher : Delacorte Press
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2013-11-27
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780307827548

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Keeping Secrets by Joan Lowery Nixon Pdf

It's the autumn of 1863, and as the Civil War rages, a stranger named Violet seeks refuge with the Kelly family. Peg Kelly, 11, is thrilled—Violet treats her like an adult, not a child. Violet is fleeing Confederate raiders and has information that may save the Union. But she can't deliver her message unless she takes a dangerous journey.

Author : Elizabeth Raum
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2010-12
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781429654791

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Orphan Trains by Elizabeth Raum Pdf

"Describes the people and events involved in the orphan trains. The reader's choices reveal the historical details from the perspectives of a New York City newsboy, a child trying to keep his siblings together, and a child sent west on the baby trains"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Marianne Hering
Publisher : Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781589978058

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Trouble on the Orphan Train by Marianne Hering Pdf

While searching for Eugene, who is missing somewhere in time, time-traveling cousins Patrick and Beth arrive on an orphan train heading west in 1874 and befriend an orphan falsely accused of being part of a train robbery.

Author : Peggy Mcgee
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2015-01-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1506133231

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Grace: Forever Family by Peggy Mcgee Pdf

Grace: Forever Family Grace Finley put her teaching career on hold, in anticipation of relocating with her beloved Adam whom she hoped would soon return from the war. Instead, she received a heartbreaking letter indicating that he had found another while stationed overseas. Too late in the year to obtain a teaching contract, she takes an interim position with the Children's Aid Society for an orphan train excursion. There, she puts her heart and soul in finding new homes for the many orphaned children. In her travels out west, she meets a pastor whom she fancies, but he is adored by one of her co-workers. Then, a new doctor enters her life, with whom she experiences unpredictable calamities on the Nebraska frontier, resulting in a loss of her teaching position. In the meantime, Adam unexpectedly reappears in her life once again, compromising her ability to move on. Follow the adventures of Grace in this 1918 historical romance as she seeks to make a difference in the young lives around her while realizing her true love.

Author : Robert J. Grover Professor Emeritus,Susan G. Fowler
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2011-07-13
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781598848274

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Helping Those Experiencing Loss by Robert J. Grover Professor Emeritus,Susan G. Fowler Pdf

This book provides a guide for grieving youth and adults as well as extensive descriptive lists of recommended professional literature resources. Grief caused by loss is both a very common human experience and a highly individualized one. For example, children experience a number of losses that are unique to their young age—such as sibling and parent death, adoption, or divorce—and should be given special consideration by professionals and parents helping them in these situations. For gay, lesbian, or cohabiting heterosexual couples that suffer the loss of a partner, societal standards often deny the survivors in these relationships the right to grieve. Helping Those Experiencing Loss: A Guide to Grieving Resources is a book like no other, supplying compassionate information for navigating the emotional distress that every man and woman will experience in their lifetime, as well as a comprehensive guide to the literature of bereavement and grieving. It explains the grieving process, interpreting the results of research on the topic in plain language and addressing specific groups: children, young adults, parents who have lost a child, adults who have lost spouses, and the aging population.

Author : Peggy McGee
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2016-05-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1533108390

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Orphan Train Angel Seeker by Peggy McGee Pdf

"Orphan Train Angel Seeker" is the newest book of the inspiring and popular "Orphan Train Adventures". Angela, a beautiful child with auburn hair, was fortunate to be adopted locally in NYC after her parents died, while her brothers were placed during an Orphan Train excursion in a Midwestern farm community in 1914. During her high school years, her adopted parents decided to board her at a Catholic Convent School. Not desiring to become a nun but to ultimately reunite Orphan Train families, the principal finds a position for her at a Children's Home in nearby Chicago where she also secures contract work with the Pinkerton Agency. She falls for the young director, not realizing that he has associations with the Mob, putting her in danger. As a mentor to a younger orphan, both of their lives take flight while attempting to find love and stability in all of the wrong places. Despite her many admirers, Angela cannot get one out of her mind. But, can he protect her from the Mob and ultimately seek her out to ask for her forgiveness and love? A heartwarming novel about families wanting to come together, and an 'angel' named Angela who seeks to make this all possible.

Author : Joan Lowery Nixon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Brothers and sisters
ISBN : 032958409X

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A Family Apart by Joan Lowery Nixon Pdf

When their mother can no longer support them, six siblings are sent by the Children's Aid Society of New York City to live with farm families in Missouri in 1860.