Raum, Elizabeth.
Summary: "Describes the people and events involved in the orphan trains. The reader's choices reveal the historical details from the perspectives of a New York City newsboy, a child trying to keep his siblings together, and a child sent west on the baby trains"--Provided by publisher.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press 2011
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 362.734 RAUSummary: Examines the efforts of the Children's Aid Society in New York, organized by minister Charles Loring Brace, which from 1853 to 1929 sent over 100,000 unwanted and orphaned children from the city to homes in rural America.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Home Video 2006
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ORPGrimwood, Jonathan
Summary: Follows an adventurous man, once a penniless orphan, through French society during the Enlightenment as he searches for the perfect taste, befriends Benjamin Franklin, becomes pen pals with the Marquis de Sade and Voltaire and improves contraceptive methods.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Europa Editions 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRIAlexander, Tamera.
Summary: "Eleanor's practical plans for the new home for Civil War widows and orphans at Belmont Mansion, in Nashville, conflict with architect Marcus' artistic vision. Will they ever manage to find common ground?"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House, A division of Baker Publishing Group 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION ALECaravantes, Peggy
Summary: This book relays the factual details of the orphan trains that sent East Coast orphans to be with families in the Midwest and West. The narrative provides multiple accounts of the event, and readers learn details from the point of view of an orphan child heading to the Midwest, a Midwestern family awaiting a child, and a New York City child welfare worker. This book offers opportunities to...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Cherry Lake Publishing 2013
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Littlefield, Holly
Summary: Recounts the experiences of abandoned, orphaned, or homeless children from city orphanages in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries who were sent out by the trainload to find families that would adopt them or take them as workers.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Carolrhoda Books 2001
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 362.734 LittlSummary: It seems incomprehensible that there was a time in America's not-so-distant past when nearly a quarter of a million children from East Coast orphanages were loaded on trains and sent west, where they were presented "for the picking." These children were taken from a sometimes-rough existence to unfamiliar rural settings during an era that lasted from 1854 to 1929.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: All Channel Films, Inc. 2014
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Fuchs, Bernie
Summary: In Nevada in 1861, a young Pony Express rider races for his life, pursued by seven Paiute warriors who are determined to drive white settlers out of their territory.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Blue Sky Press 2004
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J Fiction FuchsGabhart, Ann H.
Summary: Orphaned in the cholera epidemic of 1833, Adria Starr was cared for by a slave named Louis, a man who stayed in Springfield, Kentucky, when anyone with means had fled. A man who passed up the opportunity to escape his bondage and instead tended to the sick and buried the dead. A man who, twelve years later, is being sold by his owners despite his heroic actions. Now nineteen, Adria has never...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GABDinerstein, Eric
Summary: Thirteen-year-old Nanda Singh, the youngest elephant driver in Nepal, enjoys a very special relationship with his tusker, Hira Prashad, through which he grows in understanding and compassion with all animals, including humans.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Disney-Hyperion 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC DINGabhart, Ann H.
Summary: When Elizabeth Duncan feels a strong attachment to a handsome young believer named Ethan, life gets complicated. Will Elizabeth be forced to leave the Shaker community to keep Ethan from stumbling? Or will Ethan's love for her change their lives forever?
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2009
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC GABMeyer, Carolyn
Summary: While her tyrannical family is out of favor in Italy, young Catherine de Medici is raised in convents, then in 1533, when she is fourteen, her uncle, Pope Clement VII, arranges for her marriage to prince Henri of France, who is destined to become king.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt 2007
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC MEYFunaro, Gregory.
Summary: In Victorian England Grubb, an orphan about twelve years old, escapes his life of drudgery as a chimney sweep's apprentice and finds himself in a very strange house filled with magical objects and creatures, but soon he learns that there are dark forces seeking his new master.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Disney-Hyperion 2015
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC FUNHolm, Jennifer L.
Summary: The arrival from Philadelphia of her spiteful nemesis Sally Biddle and the return of her corrupt ex-fiance Richard Baldt spell trouble for seventeen-year-old Miss Jane Peck, who has survived on her own in Shoalwater Bay, a community of white settlers and Chinook Indians in 1850s Washington Territory.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 2004
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC HOLMurphy, Emily Bain
Summary: "In nineteenth-century Copenhagen, an orphaned seamstress goes to work for a retired ballerina and uses her magic to investigate her father's mysterious death while working for the same family years ago"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2020
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Place a hold to request this item.Larson, Kirby
Summary: After inheriting her uncle's homesteading claim in Montana, sixteen-year-old orphan Hattie Brooks travels from Iowa in 1917 to make a home for herself and encounters some unexpected problems related to the war being fought in Europe.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J PA FIC LARWalter, Jon
Summary: Samuel and his younger brother, Joshua, are free black boys living in an orphanage during the Civil War, but when Samuel takes the blame for his brother's prank, he is sent South, given a new name, and sold into slavery--and somehow he must survive both captivity and the war, to find his way back to his brother.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: David Fickling Books/Scholastic Inc. 2016
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC WALAuxier, Jonathan
Summary: In nineteenth-century England, after her father's disappearance Nan Sparrow, ten, works as a "climbing boy," aiding chimney sweeps, but when her most treasured possessions end up in a fireplace, she unwittingly creates a golem.--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Amulet Books 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC AUXCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC AUXFunaro, Gregory
Summary: In Victorian England Grubb, an orphan about twelve years old, escapes his life of drudgery as a chimney sweep's apprentice and finds himself in a very strange house filled with magical objects and creatures, but soon he learns that there are dark forces seeking his new master.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Disney Hyperion 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC FUNHopkinson, Deborah.
Summary: Eel, an orphan, and his best friend Florrie must help Dr. John Snow prove that cholera is spread through water, and not poisonous air, when an epidemic sweeps across their London neighborhood in 1854.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House/Listening Library 2013
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Place a hold to request this item.Horowitz, Anthony
Summary: Presented with an unexpected assignment, Alex Rider's greatest nemesis, Yassen Gregoravich, recalls his life and the path that led him to become an assassin while his one-time friend, Alex's uncle, became a spy.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2013
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC HORHorowitz, Anthony
Summary: Presented with an unexpected assignment, Alex Rider's greatest nemesis, Yassen Gregoravich, recalls his life and the path that led him to become an assassin while his one-time friend, Alex's uncle, became a spy.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) Inc. 2013
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC HORCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC HORMatthews, Beryl.
Summary: In 1938 England, orphan siblings Hanna and Jack are split up when a family chooses to adopt Jack, but after he is mistreated in his new home, Jack flees to join the navy and faces the possibility of fighting in the impending war.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MATPhillips, Michael R.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House Publishers 2003