Orphan train rider : one boy's true story / by Andrea Warren.
1996
CMC HV985 .W37 1996 (Mapit)
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Title
Orphan train rider : one boy's true story / by Andrea Warren.
Author
ISBN
0395698227
Publication Details
Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1996.
Language
English
Description
80 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Call Number
CMC HV985 .W37 1996
Dewey Decimal Classification
362.7/34/092 B
Summary
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.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 73-74) and index.
Awards
Boston Globe/Horn Book Award, 1996.
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