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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...
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