Download or read book The Red Caboose An Orphan s Journey written by Jeanette Van Zanten-Stump and published by Bookbaby. This book was released on 2018-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1960, Jeanette Van Zanten, a three-year-old girl from Sharon, Pennsylvania tragically loses her father to death. When her mother is unable to care for her and her six siblings, the family is uprooted from a family farm and relocated to Mooseheart, an orphanage in Illinois. Upon arrival to Mooseheart, the siblings are separated from one another and scattered to halls throughout the grounds of the orphanage where they at the mercy of strict matrons. Jeanette creatively adapts to the rigid lifestyle filled with rules and regulations, but never loses hope that someday she will be free. Once she attains her desired freedom and is on her own, she resiliently readjusts to life outside the orphanage and perilously navigates her way through adolescence into adulthood.
Download or read book Orphan Journey Home written by Liza Ketchum and published by Turtleback. This book was released on 2002-11-01 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1828, while traveling by wagon from Illinois to Kentucky, twelve-year-old Jesse and her siblings lose their parents to a mysterious illness and must finish the dangerous journey by themselves.
Download or read book Prairie Homestead written by Arleta Richardson and published by David C Cook. This book was released on 2001-02 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eight-year-old orphan Ethan and his three younger siblings are taken in by the Rush family and find themselves homesteading in South Dakota.
Download or read book The Prairie Orphans Journey written by P. S. Kares and published by Publishamerica Incorporated. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Billy and Betsy were headed west in a wagon train with their fellow orphan dolls. The sights were exciting until they were thrown from the wagon. They were alone, hungry, thirsty and afraid. Soon animal friends helped them on their journey. Adventures with them made their journey less fearful. Before long they found people, schools and a new beginning. This story teaches respect, integrity, perseverance, self esteem and faith.
Download or read book A Place for Me written by Sandra McKay and published by . This book was released on 2022-01-03 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taken from her bed and separated from her brothers, Dora was put on an Orphan Train to an orphanage in Chicago in the early 1900s, only the beginning of her journey to find a place where she would belong. Based on her journals and extensive historical research, this story is a historical novel about a a little girl who survived unspeakable loss who learned to stand up for herself, becoming a remarkable woman with a deep love for family.
Download or read book Emily s Story written by Clark Kidder and published by . This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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 Whistle Stop West written by Arleta Richardson and published by Turtleback. This book was released on 2001-03 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With their mother dead and their father gone, the nine Cooper children cannot hope to stay together. Follow the adventures of the four younger children as they ride the orphan train to Nebraska to live with the Rush family.
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 Looking for Home written by Arleta Richardson and published by Chariot Victor Publishing. This book was released on 1993 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With their mother dead and their father gone, the nine Cooper children cannot hope to stay together. In this exciting series, readers ages 8-12 can follow the adventures of the four younger children as they ride the orphan train to Nebraska to live with the Rush family. Includes a faith-builder guide.
Download or read book The Little Red Caboose written by Marian Potter and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Journey Home written by Isabelle Holland and published by Scholastic Paperbacks. This book was released on 1993-07-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two orphan sisters in the late 1800s leave New York on the orphan train to seek a new home in the West.
Download or read book Apple Red Caboose written by J A Strike and published by . This book was released on 2020-04-13 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Apple Red Caboose is a story about Nana and her grandchildren, Halie and Bobby. Halie is reluctant to go on an upcoming trip with her Nana because she thinks the trip will be boring. Halie's thought soon dissolves when Nana and her VW, Smiley, magically transport Halie and her older brother, Bobby, over the mountain to an Apple Red Caboose. Nana and her grandchildren climb abroad and as soon as they put on their Imagination Hats, they are whisk back into history to the Civil War in Gettysburg, PA.
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 Across the Border written by Arleta Richardson and published by . This book was released on 2001-03-06 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With their mother dead and their father gone, the nine Cooper children cannot hope to stay together. Follow the adventures of the four younger children as they ride the orphan train to Nebraska to live with the Rush family.
Download or read book Orphan Train written by James Magnuson and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1853, twenty-seven abandoned children travel west to find new homes and lives.
Download or read book The Journey Home written by Isabelle Holland and published by Turtleback Books. This book was released on 1990-01-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two orphan sisters in the late 1800s leave New York on the orphan train to seek a new home in the West.
