Orphan Train adventures | Mancos Library District

1) A family apart

Author

Nixon, Joan Lowery

Series

Orphan Train adventures volume 1
Orphan train quartet

Pub. Date

1987.

Accelerated Reader

IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 7

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When their widowed mother can no longer support them, six siblings are sent on the orphan train by the Children's Aid Society of New York City to live with farm families in Missouri in 1860.

2) Caught in the act

Author

Nixon, Joan Lowery

Series

Orphan Train adventures volume 2
Orphan train quartet

Pub. Date

[1988]

Accelerated Reader

IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 6

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Eleven-year-old Michael Patrick Kelly from New York City is sent to a foster home, a Missouri farm with a sadistic owner, a bullying son, and a number of secrets, one of which may be murder.

3) In the face of danger

Author

Nixon, Joan Lowery

Series

Orphan Train adventures volume 3

Pub. Date

1996,c1988

Accelerated Reader

IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 6

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Deeply unhappy about her family's separation because of poverty, Megan gradually finds contentment and purpose in her new home on the Kansas prairie with a kind and loving adopted family.

4) A place to belong

Author

Nixon, Joan Lowery

Series

Orphan Train adventures volume 4
Orphan train quartet

Accelerated Reader

IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 6

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In 1856, having traveled with his young sister from New York to a foster home on a farm in Missouri, ten-year-old Danny plots to get his foster father to send for and marry his mother.

5) A dangerous promise

Author

Nixon, Joan Lowery

Series

Orphan Train adventures volume 5

Accelerated Reader

IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 7

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After being taken in by Captain Taylor and his wife in Kansas, twelve-year-old Mike Kelly and his friend Todd Blakely join the Union army as musicians and see the horrors of war firsthand in Missouri.

6) Keeping secrets

Author

Nixon, Joan Lowery

Series

Orphan Train adventures volume 6

Accelerated Reader

IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 6

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In 1863, eleven-year-old Peg Kelly is drawn into the dangerous activities of a mysterious young woman who takes refuge with the Kelly family in Missouri after fleeing the attack on Lawrence, Kansas, by William Quantrill and his Confederate raiders.

7) Circle of Love

Author

Nixon, Joan Lowery

Series

Orphan Train adventures volume 7

Accelerated Reader

IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6

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Nineteen-year-old Frances Mary Kelly, herself an orphan train rider six years before, returns to New York and agrees to escort a group of orphans west to find new homes.