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Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Co
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
They were "throw away" kids, living in the streets or in orphanages and foster homes. Then Charles Loring Brace, a young minister working with the poor in New York City, started the Children's Aid Society and devised a plan to give homeless children a chance to find families to call their own. Thus began an extraordinary migration of American children. Between 1854 and 1929, an estimated 200,000 children, mostly from New York and other cities of the...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
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. The history of the orphan trains combined with the story of Lee Nailling, who in 1926 rode an orphan train to Texas.
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