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Author
Series
Orphan Train adventures volume 7
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
740L
Language
English
Description
Nineteen-year-old Frances Mary Kelly, herself an orphan train rider six years before, returns to New York and agrees to escort a group of orphans west to find new homes.
Author
Series
Orphan Train children volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
540L
Language
English
Description
After eleven-year-old orphan-train rider David Howard settles with a strict Texas farm family, his best friend, an ex-slave, is threatened by the growing presence of the Ku-Klux Klan.
3) Aggie's home
Author
Series
Orphan Train children volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
600L
Language
English
Description
A clumsy and unattractive twelve-year-old, Aggie is sure no one will want to adopt her when she rides the orphan train out west, but when she meets the eccentric Bradon family she begins to have some hope; includes historical information about orphan trains and the woman's suffrage movement.
Author
Series
Orphan Train children volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
550L
Language
English
Description
Sent away on an orphan train by his self-centered father Jessie, Will keeps hoping Jessie will return to claim him, even though the people he lives with care for him far more.
5) Lucy's Wish.
Author
Series
Orphan train children volume 1
Pub. Date
[1999]
Lexile measure
600L
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Pub. Date
[1986]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
550L
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Will Scott is not happy to be riding the orphan train. He has a father--Jesse, a circus performer, who tells Will that he will have a better life with a new family out west. Will is placedwith the kindly Dr. and Mrs. Wallace and is happy with his new family,until one night Jesse's circus comes to town, and Will has to make a bigdecision.
Author
Series
Orphan train children volume 4
Pub. Date
[1998]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
540L
Language
English
Description
After eleven-year-old orphan-train rider David Howard settles with a strict Texas farm family, his best friend, an ex-slave, is threatened by the growing presence of the Ku-Klux Klan.
Author
Series
Orphan train children volume 3
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
A clumsy and unattractive twelve-year-old, Aggie is sure no one will want to adopt her when she rides the orphan train out west, but when she meets the eccentric Bradon family she begins to have some hope. Includes historical information about orphan trains and the woman's suffrage movement.
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