Orphan Train


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A social experiment that transported children from crowded coastal cities of the United States—especially NYC to the Midwest for adoption. The orphan trains relocated an estimated 200,000 orphaned, abandoned, or homeless children between 1854 and 1929. At the time the trains began, an estimated 30,000 vagrant children were living on the streets of NYC
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The last orphan train stopped in Sulphur Springs, Texas, in 1929.
Chasing a dream
Kim Vogel Sawyer is a prolific author of numerous Christian-themed novels with personal ties to the Orphan Trains through a much-loved grandmother.
My Heart Remembers
Hillary and her friends always are on the lookout for orphan trains and strain to catch any glimpse of the children inside the passenger cars.
Wildflowers: The First Story in the Orphan Train Trilogy
The children selected to ride the orphan trains left behind lives of abandonment, crime, disease, starvation, and a pervasive environment of physical and mental cruelty.
Lessons from disasters: play, work, and the creative arts
Begin your reading for the 2006 Young Readers Choice Award with this tale of the Orphan Train.
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She says that the local historical society produced several articles--interviews with orphan train riders--that appeared in the newspaper.
Author hopes to illuminate story of orphan trains: now in their 70s and 80s, many orphan train riders are speaking up, telling of their experiences for posterity's sake
Elsewhere, the jazz-tinged He'll Be Back has a nostalgic feel about it, suggesting a latterday Connie Francis, and Orphan Train is as rootsy as they come.
Living Play: NO ORDINARY COUNTRY GIRL; Hard-voiced Lee Ann rocks her roots
Warren, a former high school teacher, authored Orphan Train Rider, which won the 1996 Horn Book Award for nonfiction as well as many state awards.
Books by NEA members. (Resources)
Examples of contemporary fiction with orphan characters include Joan Aiken's (1962) The Wolves of Willoughby Chase and Midnight is a Place (1974), Joan Lowery Nixon's (1987-1989) Orphan Train series, Philip Pullman's (1982) Count Karlstein, and Geraldine McCaughrean's (1998) The Pirate's Son.
From Folktales to Fiction: Orphan Characters in Children's Literature
A dwindling number of orphan train riders are still living.
Pre-school responses to the 19th-century youth crisis
By examining the orphan train movement in Boston and New York, with some mention of similar work in Baltimore, Chicago, Cleveland, Philadelphia, and Rochester, Marilyn Irvin Holt makes a significant contribution to an intriguing, original, and overlooked aspect of American social welfare history.
The Orphan Trains: Placing Out in America
Orphan Train Girl is a young reader's edition of the 2013 adult bestseller from Kline, Orphan Train.
Kline, Christina Baker. Orphan Train Girl
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