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A Family Apart (Orphan Train Adventures)
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A Family Apart (Orphan Train Adventures)
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4 journalers for this copy...
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Released 6 yrs ago (1/16/2006 UTC) at RABCK in RABCK, Postal Release -- Controlled Releases WILD RELEASE NOTES:
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Journal Entry 3 by
This book has arrived in Kaiserslautern, GERMANY. I look forward to being able to add this to Geegal's bookbox as it comes around. (I might even get the chance to read it in the meantime.) |
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Journal Entry 4 by
This book was on the Sequoyah Book Award Masterlist for Children for the year 1990.Sponsored by the Oklahoma Library Association (OLA), the annual Sequoyah Book Award is a student’s choice award presented since 1959. The program added a Young Adult literature award in 1987. Books chosen for the annual Sequoyah masterlist are selected by two committees of OLA members. Each member of the committee reads over 100 books before recommending titles for the masterlists. During the school year, young Oklahomans from grades three through junior high are encouraged to read the titles from the masterlist. Students must read or listen to three books in order to cast a vote. The winning book is announced in February and the award is presented during the annual Oklahoma Library Association’s spring conference. With this award, Oklahoma honors the Native American leader, Sequoyah, for his unique achievement in creating the Cherokee syllabary. In so doing, he created a way to preserve his people’s language and culture. |
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Journal Entry 5 by
From the back cover:The Orphan Train saga begins in 1856 in New York City, where Mrs. Kelly, a young widow, realizes that she cannot give her six children the life they deserve. Mrs. Kelly makes the ultimate sacrifice of love and sends them west on the orphan train to find better lives with new families. The children, especially thirteen-year-old Frances Mary, feel an overwhelming sense of betrayal and abandonment. Their arrival in St Joseph, Missouri, seperates the children not only from their mother, but from each other as well. One by one they are adopted by western families - some looking for children to love, others only seeking cheap labor. Frances has promised Ma that she will look after Petey, her youngest brother, no matter what. When she masquerades as a boy, "Frankie's" adventures eventually involve her in the activities of the Underground Railroad. Will honoring Ma's request help Frances understand that splitting up the family was really her mother's act of love? |
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Journal Entry 6 by
I thought that this was a wonderful book that has a lot of character shown in each of the children as well as several of the other people in the story. I liked that the people were believeable as ones that could have been real and that the story is one that is dated and yet timeless.I think that this is a wonderful story that can help children understand not only the meaning of what it is like to be an orphan but also what it is like to be adopted. This book is the first in a series and I would like to find other books in this series so that I can find out what happened to some of the other children and their adoptive families. I read and will release this book as part of the 2006 Keep Them Moving Release Challenge from the Release Challenges forum. |
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This book is being added into Geegal's All English Kids/Teen Lit Bookbox.
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Book with stay at first at my house, will release after finish with readingupdate: Great read, my niece loved the book |
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Released 4 yrs ago (8/13/2007 UTC) at Through the mail in To a Moocher, BookMooch -- Controlled Releases WILD RELEASE NOTES:
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