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"Nine-year-old Ethan Cooper has managed to keep his family together for a year in a Pennsylvania orphanage. Now he and his siblings are boarding a train headed west. He can't help but worry: Mr. and Mrs. Rush in Nebraska have agreed to adopt all four Cooper children, but what if they change their minds? In the meantime, Ethan and his siblings encounter their first dust storm, explore train cars, and watch friend after friend leave with new parents....
3) Lucy's Wish
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 2
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600L
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English
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Ten-year-old Lucy, an orphan who wants a little sister more than anything, finds a very special one in the less than perfect family which she joins.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 3
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English
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Twin sisters Nettie and Nellie Crook are taken away from their disfunctional parents in 1910 when they are only five years old, and placed in an orphanage--at six they are put on the orphan train by the Children's Aid Society and moved from New York City to Kansas, ending up in a household where they are treated more as servants than children.
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"Since their mama died and their pa left, Ethan, Alice, Simon, and Will Cooper have not known much of a home. But now that the orphan train has taken them to Mr. and Mrs. Rush in Nebraska, their dreams of home may become a reality. The kids discover that life on a farm is full of challenges. Ethan learns how to drive a plow, watch for snakes, and deal with bullies at the country school. Alice learns to slop the hogs and live with a big sister who...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
820L
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English
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"When their widowed mother can no longer support them, six siblings are sent on the orphan train by the Children's Aid Society of New York City to live with farm families in Missouri in 1860"--WorldCat.
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Pub. Date
2004.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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When taken away from her New York City orphanage to live in a new home in Texas, eleven-year-old Hazelle Boxberg finds the ride aboard the Orphan Train a difficult one as she considers the realities of her situation.
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Hidden histories volume 1
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
630L
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English
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Twelve-year-old Rory Fitzpatrick loves her younger sister, Violet, more than anyone in the world. She has been Violet's only family ever since their parents died and they went to live at the Sisters of Charity Foundling Hospital in New York. Rory promised she would always protect her sister, would never leave her. So when Rory learns that the nuns are sending Violet to an adoptive family out West, Rory is determined to follow and keep her family together...
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