Download or read book Orphan Train Rider written by Andrea Warren and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1996 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book We Rode the Orphan Trains written by Andrea Warren and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2001 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They were "throwaway" kids, living on the streets or in orphanages and foster homes. Then Charles Loring Brace, a young minister in New York City, started the Children's Aid Society and devised a plan to give these homeless waifs a chance at finding families they could call their own. Thus began an extraordinary migration of American children. Between 1854 and 1929, an estimated 200,000 children ventured forth on a journey of hope. Here, in the sequel to Orphan Train Rider: One Boy's True Story, Andrea Warren introduces nine men and women who rode the trains and helped make history so many years ago.
Download or read book The Author s Guide to Orphan Train Rider One Boy s True Story and We Rode the Orphan Trains written by Andrea Warren and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2013-09-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Andrea Warren views her two award-winning nonfiction books about the orphan trains through the lens of the Common Core Standards, offering her insight into how the books fulfill standards related to critical thinking, reading, speaking, and writing. She includes background history not in the books, and shares how she conducted research, interviewed the featured orphan train riders, found photos to illustrate her text, and then wrote the books. The guide includes many suggested exercises and reflective questions.
Download or read book The Author s Guide to Orphan Train Rider written by and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Andrea Warren views her two non-fictions books about the orphan trains through the lens of the Common Core Standards, offering her insight as to how the books fulfill standards related to critical thinking, reading, speaking, and writing. She includes background history not in the books, and shares how she conducted research, interviewed the featured orphan train riders, found photos to illustrate her text, and then wrote the books. The guide includes many suggested exercises and reflective questions.
Download or read book Emily s Story written by Clark Kidder and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-02-28 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It seems incomprehensible that there was a time in America s not-so-distant past that nearly 200,000 children could be loaded on trains in large cities on our East Coast, sent to the rural Midwest, and presented for the picking to anyone who expressed an interest in them. That's exactly what happened between the years 1854 and 1930. The primitive social experiment became known as placing out, and had its origins in a New York City organization founded by Charles Loring Brace called the Children's Aid Society. The Society gathered up orphans, half-orphans, and abandoned children from streets and orphanages, and placed them on what are now referred to as Orphan Trains. It was Brace s belief that there was always room for one more at a farmer s table. The stories of the individual children involved in this great migration of little emigrants have nearly all been lost in the attic of American history. In this book, the author tells the true story of his paternal grandmother, the late Emily (Reese) Kidder, who, at the tender age of fourteen, became one of the aforementioned children who rode an Orphan Train. In 1906, Emily was plucked from the Elizabeth Home for Girls, operated by the Children's Aid Society, and placed on a train, along with eight other children, bound for Hopkinton, Iowa. Emily s journey, as it turned out, was only just beginning. Life had many lessons in store for her lessons that would involve overcoming adversity, of perseverance, love, and great loss. Emily's story is told through the use of primary material, oral history, interviews, and historical photographs. It is a tribute to the human spirit of an extraordinary young girl who became a woman a woman to whom the heartfelt phrase there s no place like home, had a very profound meaning.
Download or read book Orphan Train Rider One Boy s True Story written by Ana Warren and published by . This book was released on 1996-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Orphan Trains written by Stephen O'Connor and published by HMH. This book was released on 2014-11-04 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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). A powerful blend of history, biography, and adventure, Orphan Trains fills a grievous gap in the American story. Tracing the evolution of the Children’s Aid Society, this dramatic narrative tells the fascinating tale of one of the most famous—and sometimes infamous—child welfare programs: the orphan trains, which spirited away some two hundred fifty thousand abandoned children into the homes of rural families in the Midwest. In mid-nineteenth-century New York, vagrant children, whether orphans or runaways, filled the streets. The city’s solution for years had been to sweep these children into prisons or almshouses. But a young minister named Charles Loring Brace took a different tack. With the creation of the Children’s Aid Society in 1853, he provided homeless youngsters with shelter, education, and, for many, a new family out west. The family matching process was haphazard, to say the least: at town meetings, farming families took their pick of the orphan train riders. Some children, such as James Brady, who became governor of Alaska, found loving homes, while others, such as Charley Miller, who shot two boys on a train in Wyoming, saw no end to their misery. Complete with extraordinary photographs and deeply moving stories, Orphan Trains gives invaluable insights into a creative genius whose pioneering, if controversial, efforts inform child rescue work today.
Download or read book Journey s End written by Barbara Heise Grooman and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2001-02-28 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Journey’s End is the story of a remarkable man, George Wells of Nebraska, an Orphan Train Rider. Readers first met him as the hero of Train To Red Cloud, A Small Boy’s Journey. In these pages meet him as the author did… through personal letters, anecdotes from friends and neighbors who knew him, and the author’s sentimental journey to Red Cloud to trace his steps. The train that brought him to Red Cloud was not the end, but the beginning, of a joyous journey through life.
Download or read book Train to Red Cloud written by Barbara Heise Grooman and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2000-05 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Young Sophie comes home from school to find that her brother and sister are gone without a trace. She begs her aunt Anna to tell her where they have gone but she refuses. Their mother had died just a few months earlier, their sickly baby sister had been sent away, their father had mysteriously disappeared and now this. Thus begins the story of a courageous little boy and two strong-willed sisters, determined to find one another. A Victorian novel? No. This is the true story of an Orphan Train Rider torn from those who loved him, and of the sisters he left behind. Travel with Christian as the train carries him to Nebraska and a new life. Join Sophie as she searches for her sisters, brother and father, praying that she will find them and that they will be a family again. Theirs is a story that may anger you, cause you to cry, but ultimately warm your heart
Download or read book Orphan Trains written by Rebecca Langston-George and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2016 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the true story of seven orphans who were settled with families in the Midwest by the Children's Aid Society.
Download or read book The Orphan Trains written by Alice K. Flanagan and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2006 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn about the homeless city children who were taken out West to have new homes in the early 1900s.
Download or read book For a Thousand Generations written by Ellen Hart and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-06-02 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1913 an unwed Irish girl, Bessie Brady, gives birth to a baby boy in the New York Foundling Hospital in New York City. She names him Ignatius, but knows she cannot keep him. Bessie signs him over to the Sisters of Charity at the hospital, who place lost, abandoned and illegitimate children on "orphan trains" to Catholic families mainly throughout the Midwest. Between 1854 and 1929 about 200,000 children were placed on these orphan trains for a better life. Follow Ignatius as he is sent out several times to families locally for adoption but is returned to the Foundling each time. When Ignatius was six years old, a childless couple in North Dakota requests from the Sisters of Charity a handsome, intelligent boy with brown or blue eyes. The couple promises the Sisters this boy will have everything, including a university education. The Sisters are delighted and select Ignatius to ride the orphan train to North Dakota. Will he be returned to the Foundling, or will he stay in North Dakota with his new parents? Will he be loved and raised as one of their own or will he become an indentured servant as many of these orphans do? And how does he wind up back in New York City and New Jersey during the Great Depression? See how his future unfolds with meeting a beautiful girl, who also grew up in foster homes and orphanages. For A Thousand Generations is a story of loss and return, of love and memories, of faith and a legacy for the generations.
Download or read book From Cradle to Grave written by Louisiana Orphan Train Society and published by . This book was released on 2014-09-01 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the mean streets of New York City in the early 1900s, children were either left on the streets to fend for themselves or taken to an orphanage. They were torn from families who were destitute, sick or dying. Leaving the streets of New York, the children came to the countryside of Louisiana by trains, escorted by their nuns, nurses, and agents. The orphan train rider's stories may sound like fiction, but in reality, it is the story of their lives. From Cradle to Grave is only a small collection of stories from the descendents who put together the bits and pieces they received from relatives. Treatment of the orphans to some was an injustice, but in actuality it was a blessing. They were given shelter, food, and medical care. With the passage of time, they were placed on trains and sent to other states. They rode the rails for a better life. Though many were faced with perils and hardships, many were not. They were survivors and overcame those perils and hardships. For many orphans, cotton, corn, and sweet potato fields were not only their workplace, but their playgrounds as well, especially in the southern part of Louisiana where farming was the way of life. Many of the orphans who were brought to these farms, learned farming first-hand, and became successful later in life even though they may not have had a formal education. For too many years, they were ignored and their stories were hushed. They were ashamed of being orphans, mostly because they were often reminded of who they were and where they came from. However, they bounced back, they were accepted and were raised in the cultures of their communities. Though most have left their earthly homes, it's time to reflect on what they were able to accomplish. The majority were good providers and overprotective of their children. They were always looking for better things for their children than they had been provided with. Their stories are proof that hard work and a positive attitude make anything possible.
Download or read book The Orphan Trains written by Peggy Caravantes and published by Cherry Lake. This book was released on 2013-08-01 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Children of the Orphan Trains written by Holly Littlefield and published by Lerner Publications. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recounts the experiences of abandoned, orphaned, or homeless children from city orphanages in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries who were sent out by the trainload to find families that would adopt them or take them as workers.
Download or read book Orphan Train to Kansas written by Donna Nordmark Aviles and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Holding tight to one another, vowing never to be separated, Oliver and Edward board the Orphan Train, headed west to start a new life. Will their promise prove impossible to keep, or will they find a home together? From 1854-1929, America's Orphan Train Movement relocated over 250,000 homeless and neglected children from East Coast cities, to farming communities in the West. Known at the time as "placing out," it was believed that the children would have a better future in the morally upright home of a Christian farmer. With a success rate of over 80%, this ambitious experiment is now recognized as the beginning of Foster Care in America. Orphan Train To Kansas is the true story of Oliver and Edward Nordmark. Together, the boys traveled from the Children's Village Orphanage in Dobbs Ferry, arriving in Bern, Kansas in search of a home. Their story is one of perseverance, resilience and brotherly love that will leave you with a deeper understanding of this nearly forgotten piece of American history. "It's very American - their journey to find their places in the world. I'm attracted to true stories and this one has a lot of heart - a wellspring of drama, humor and adventure. She's a young writer, new to the craft, and she's able to accomplish that. It's very difficult." --William Rotko, Screenwriter - Breach (Universal Pictures)
Download or read book Mail order Kid written by Marilyn Coffey and published by Out West Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the orphan train movement through the eyes of one small child who yearns to know her "real" mother, survives a tortured childhood, when she encountered whippings and sexual abuse, and ultimately, as an adult, comes to terms with her past, her faith, and herself.
