A Family Apart by Joan Lowery Nixon - ISBN: 9780440226765
Paperback
When their mother can no longer support them, six siblings are sent by the Children’s Aid Society of New York City to live with farm families in Missouri in 1860.

A Family Apart

Orphan Train

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  • Paperback

    176 pages

  • Release Date

    31 March 1999

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Summary

The middle-grade answer to Christina Baker Kline’s New York Times bestselling Orphan Train, this is a shockingly timely historical adventure.The middle-grade answer to Christina Baker Kline’s New York Times bestselling Orphan Train, this is a shockingly timely historical adventure.Imagine being taken from your home. Imagine your mother is the one who lets it happen.This is the fate that befalls the Kelly children. It’s 1856, and their widowed mother has sent them west from New York City becau…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780440226765
ISBN-10:0440226767
Author:Joan Lowery Nixon
Publisher:Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc
Imprint:Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:176
Release Date:31 March 1999
Weight:95g
Dimensions:175mm x 106mm x 12mm
Series:Orphan Train Adventures
About The Author

Joan Lowery Nixon

Joan Lowery Nixon was the author of more than 130 books for young readers and was the only four-time winner of the Edgar Allan Poe Best Young Adult Mystery Award. She received the award for The Kidnapping of Christina Lattimore, The Séance, The Name of the Game Was Murder, and The Other Side of the Dark, which also won the California Young Reader Medal. Her historical fiction included the award-winning series The Orphan Train Adventures, Orphan Train Children, and Colonial Williamsburg: Young Americans.

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