Ten-year-old Lucy Griggs's mother has just died, leaving Lucy orphaned and living on the streets of 1866 New York City. Then Lucy hears about the C...
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May 24, 2009
Kathy
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I absolutely loved the Orphan Train Children series. There were several books in this series and though works of fiction were truly telling profiles of what happened to approximately 200,000 children that rode on these trains. Between 1853 and 1929 children from the East Coast were put trains to be "placed out" with families across the middle west and west. Most of them were orphans and living on the streets or living in tenements in horrible unsanitary conditions.
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Dec 07, 2010
Andrea
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This awesome chapter book,the genre is historical fiction.It's about this girl that is name Lucy that not had a mom bacause she died and dad too.So one friend said about a Orphan Train Children that is about a train the takes children to new families so Lucy gets someone that her mom is bad but his dad is good.Her dream was that she had a sister that would love her it did come true.I have schema whet this when my mom nided to take me whet other people because she was going somewhere.I have a q
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