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The orphan trains / Peggy Caravantes.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Perspectives libraryPublisher: Ann Arbor, Michigan : Cherry Lake Publishing, [2014]Description: 32 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1624314201 (lib. bdg.)
  • 1624314961 (pbk.)
  • 9781624314209 (lib. bdg.)
  • 9781624314964 (pbk.)
Subject(s):
Contents:
James Sinclair : orphan -- Nancy King : Midwestern farmer -- Anna Lane : placing agent.
Summary: Provides three perspectives on the trains that brought orphans and poor children from the crowded East Coast to better homes in the Midwest and West from 1854 to 1929.
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Children's Book Children's Book Main Library Children's NonFiction 362.734 C262 Available 33111007539170
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

This book relays the factual details of the orphan trains that sent East Coast orphans to be with families in the Midwest and West. The narrative provides multiple accounts of the event, and readers learn details from the point of view of an orphan child heading to the Midwest, a Midwestern family awaiting a child, and a New York City child welfare worker. This book offers opportunities to compare and contrast various perspectives in the text while gathering and analyzing information about an historical event.

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references (page 31) and index.

James Sinclair : orphan -- Nancy King : Midwestern farmer -- Anna Lane : placing agent.

Provides three perspectives on the trains that brought orphans and poor children from the crowded East Coast to better homes in the Midwest and West from 1854 to 1929.

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